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Treuer, David.
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Indigenous peoples -- North America.
Indigenous peoples -- North America -- History.
Indians of North America -- History.
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Treuer, David.
Indigenous peoples -- North America.
Indigenous peoples -- North America -- History.
Indians of North America -- History.
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The
heartbeat
of
Wounded
Knee
:
native
America
from
1890
to the
present
/ David Treuer.
by
Treuer, David.
Riverhead Books, 2019.
Call #:
970.00497 T811h
Subjects
Indigenous peoples -- North
America
.
Indigenous peoples -- North
America
-- History.
Indians of North
America
-- History.
ISBN:
9781594633157 (hc.)
Description:
512 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 461-488) and index.
Contents:
Narrating the apocalypse : 10,000 BCE-1890 -- Purgatory : 1891-1934 -- Fighting life : 1914-1945 -- Moving on up, termination and relocation : 1945-1970 -- Becoming Indian : 1970-1990 -- Boom city : tribal capitalism in the twenty-first century -- Digital Indians : 1990-2018.
Summary:
The received idea of
Native
American history--as promulgated by books like Dee Brown's mega-bestselling 1970 Bury My Heart at
Wounded
Knee--has been that American Indian history essentially ended with the
1890
massacre at
Wounded
Knee
. Not only did one hundred fifty Sioux die at the hands of the U. S. Cavalry, the sense was, but
Native
civilization did as well. Growing up Ojibwe on a reservation in Minnesota, training as an anthropologist, and researching
Native
life past and
present
for his nonfiction and novels, David Treuer has uncovered a different narrative. Because they did not disappear--and not despite but rather because of their intense struggles to preserve their language, their traditions, their families, and their very existence--the story of American Indians since the end of the nineteenth century to the
present
is one of unprecedented resourcefulness and reinvention. In The
Heartbeat
of
Wounded
Knee
, Treuer melds history with reportage and memoir. Tracing the tribes' distinctive cultures from first contact, he explores how the depredations of each era spawned new modes of survival. The devastating seizures of land gave rise to increasingly sophisticated legal and political maneuvering that put the lie to the myth that Indians don't know or care about property. The forced assimilation of their children at government-run boarding schools incubated a unifying
Native
identity. Conscription in the US military and the pull of urban life brought Indians into the mainstream and modern times, even as it steered the emerging shape of self-rule and spawned a new generation of resistance. The
Heartbeat
of
Wounded
Knee
is the essential, intimate story of a resilient people in a transformative era.
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970.00497 T811h
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