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The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee (Paperback)
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The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee (Paperback)
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List price R480
Loot Price R440
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FINALIST FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD CHOSEN BY BARACK OBAMA AS
ONE OF HIS FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2019 LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 ANDREW
CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER '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 The received
idea of Native American history 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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