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The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee

Indian America from 1890 to the Present

ISBN-13: 9781594633157

Author(s): David Treuer

Subjects: HBJK, NHK

Publisher: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE GROUP

Publisher Imprint: Riverhead

Publication Date: 24-01-2019

Format: Hardback

Availability: Temporary unavailable

£24.99
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee

About the book

Beginning with the tribes' devastating loss of land and the forced assimilation of their children at government-run boarding schools, he shows how the period of greatest adversity also helped to incubate a unifying Native identity. He traces how 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 their self-rule and spawned a new generation of resistance. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee is an essential, intimate history - and counter-narrative - of a resilient people in a transformative era.