The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present Audiobook (Free)

FINALIST FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD

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‘Chapter after section, it’s like one shattered misconception after another.’ – NPR

‘An informed, shifting and kaleidoscopic portrait… Treuer’s about The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 for this powerful publication suggests the need for soul-searching about the meanings of American background and the tales we tell ourselves concerning this nation’s past..’ – NY Moments Book Review, entrance page

A sweeping history–and counter-narrative–of Local American life through the Wounded Leg massacre for this.

The received notion of Local 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 using the 1890 massacre at Wounded Leg. Not only do one hundred fifty Sioux pass away at the hands of the U. S. Cavalry, the sense was, but Local civilization did aswell.

Developing up Ojibwe on a reservation in Minnesota, schooling as an anthropologist, and exploring Native life past and present for his nonfiction and novels, David Treuer has uncovered a different narrative. Because they didn’t disappear–and not despite but rather because of their extreme struggles to preserve their vocabulary, their traditions, their own families, and their very existence–the story of American Indians since the end from the nineteenth century for this is one of unprecedented resourcefulness and reinvention.

In The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee, Treuer melds history with reportage and memoir. Tracing the tribes’ distinct cultures from first get in touch with, he explores how the depredations of every era spawned new modes of success. The devastating seizures of land provided rise to more and more sophisticated legal and politics maneuvering that place the lie towards the myth that Indians have no idea or care about property. The pressured assimilation of their children at government-run boarding universities incubated a unifying Native identity. Conscription in the US military and the draw of urban life brought Indians into the mainstream and contemporary times, even while it steered the rising form of self-rule and spawned a new generation of level of resistance. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee is the important, intimate story of the resilient people inside a transformative era.