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The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present

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Tanis Parenteau

17 Hours 45 Minutes

Penguin Audio

January 2019

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FINALIST FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Named a best book of 2019 by The New York Times, TIME, The Washington Post, NPR, Hudson Booksellers, The New York Public Library, The Dallas Morning News, and Library Journal.

'Chapter after chapter, it's like one shattered myth after another.' - NPR

'An informed, moving and kaleidoscopic portrait... Treuer's powerful book suggests the need for soul-searching about the meanings of American history and the stories we tell ourselves about this nation's past..' - New York Times Book Review, front page

A sweeping history—and counter-narrative—of Native American life from the Wounded Knee massacre to the present.

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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  • Anonymous

    Other than couple of personal stories and stories about other people which were very interesting, and couple of historical facts that are not well known, and are very very important (especially around Columbus and others), other than that it’s mostly known terrible history of atrocities against indigenous population. Everything else in my opinion is mostly written from the perspective “all white people are bad, America is evil, Europe is evil”. I read Dee Brown’s Bury my heart at Wounded Knee book, I think book is absolutely amazing and touching, and I cannot understand constant dig and hate from the author towards the book and Dee Brown himself. In the end I don’t regret buying this book, but it’s definitely too long and obviously too personal for the author to make it shorter, but too long it is.

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  • Mark S.

    The book is riveting. I’ve been to Wounded Knee and the Pine Ridge reservation and still learned so much from this book. The reader was excellent but the author speaks in first person sometimes and it was sometimes odd to hear the male author voiced by a woman.

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