The Heartbeat Of Wounded Knee: Native America From 1890 To The Present

"In Dee Brown’s 1970 book, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, the author – not Native American, and with seemingly little connection to any current tribes – declared that “the culture and civilization of the American Indian was destroyed” during the late 1800s. Not so fast, says David Treuer. He calls his book a “counternarrative” to Brown’s bestseller, with its story of U.S. government betrayal, forced relocation and massacres. In this fine and timely work, Treuer, a member of the Ojibwe Tribe, says Native Americans have not only maintained their culture and civilization through some dark years, but in some parts of the country today are thriving. The heartbeat is strong."