People like Sierra Frederickson in North Dakota, a writer and teacher at a community college, who uses social media to connect members of her tribe. Intrepid entrepreneurs, savvy lawyers and others who work for the best interests of their tribes. There is a delightful collection of characters. The author shines, instead, when he heads out on the road to meet with his relatives at Leech Lake or members of other tribes across the United States.
George Washington was called Hanodaganears - "Devourer of Towns" - by the Iroquois of upstate New York for his scorched-earth policy toward the British allies. This retelling is the weakest part of the book, although there are some nice historical tidbits: Gen. But he shows that in each and every part of the country, Indians hung on. Treuer begins with a swift look at the beginnings of European contact, with its endless tales of kidnappings, rapes, broken treaties and armed attacks. in anthropology and several novels under his belt, Treuer tells of the tug of family and tribe and the lure of the north woods at his Leech Lake Reservation.Īs Treuer shows, the Indians not only have maintained their culture and civilization through some dark years - but in some parts of the country, today, are thriving.
A member of the Ojibwe Tribe from Minnesota with a Ph.D. Treuer recalls reading Brown's book while in college in the 1990s and being dismayed by the tales of Indian reservations as nothing more than worn places of hopelessness and squalor. government betrayal, forced relocation and massacres. Treuer calls his new book, The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present, a "counternarrative" to Brown's classic - which sold millions of copies with its story of U.S. In the 1970 work by Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, the author - a non-Indian with seemingly little connection to any current tribes - declared that "the culture and civilization of the American Indian was destroyed" during the late 1800s. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee Subtitle Native America from 1890 to the Present Author David Treuer
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