Transcript: Allison Kelliher, M.D.

Her mother learned to live both in the Native world and in the modern world

[Kelliher:]: My mother was sent to boarding school. She tells me that she left at the age of four and was at a Catholic boarding school in Skagway.
[Lindberg:]: Yeah, a terrible time.
[Kelliher:]: It was challenging for her. I think that she felt very close to the nuns there, and she had sisters and brothers who were there as well that helped her through that time. There was lots of goodness that came from that time.
[Lindberg:]: Yeah, sure, it was well intended but just a bad scheme.
[Kelliher:]: Well, she was raised understanding that she would need to walk in both worlds, and unfortunately I think the idea that was perpetuated was that there was one way that would be considered better than the other, and the way that she raised me was not that one is better than the other but that I would have to embrace both, and I think I was fortunate to be raised in that way.