The heartbeat of Wounded Knee : native America from 1890 to the present

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The heartbeat of Wounded Knee : native America from 1890 to the present

Title remainder

native America from 1890 to the present

Statement of responsibility

David Treuer

Title variation

Native America from 1890 to the present

Creator

• Treuer, David

Author

• Treuer, David

Subject

• Indians of North America -- Government relations
• Indians of North America -- History

Language

eng

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
• General belief is that, at the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee, not only did more than 150 Sioux die at the hands of the U.S. Cavalry, but Native civilization did as well. Treuer shows that, because of American Indians' intense struggles to preserve their tribes, their cultures, and their very existence, the true story has been one of unprecedented resourcefulness and reinvention. Here he melds history with reportage and memoir to explore how the depredations of each era spawned new modes of survival. -- adapted from back cover

Member of

• Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction

Cataloging source

JBI

Dewey number

970.004/97

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

no index present

LC call number

E77

LC item number

.T797 2019

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction