![]() 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. Cavalry, the sense was, but Native civilization did as well. Not only did one hundred fifty Sioux die at the hands of the U. The received idea of Native 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 with the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee. 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 pageĪ sweeping history-and counter-narrative-of Native American life from the Wounded Knee massacre to the present. "An informed, moving and kaleidoscopic portrait. "Chapter after chapter, it's like one shattered myth after another." - NPR ![]() Named a best book of 2019 by The New York Times, TIME, The Washington Post, NPR, Hudson Booksellers, The New York Public Library, The Dallas Morning News, and Library Journal. LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE FINALIST FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD ![]()
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