| Description |
512 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Prologue -- Part 1. Narrating the apocalypse: 10,000 BCE-1890 -- Part 2. Purgatory: 1890-1934 -- Part 3. Fighting life: 1918-1945 -- Part 4. Moving on up- termination and relocation: 1940-1970 -- Part 5. Becoming Indian: 1970-1990 -- Part 6. Boom city: tribal capitalism in the twenty-first century -- Part 7. Digital Indians: 1990-2017. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 461-488) and index. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Subject |
Indians of North America -- History.
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Indians of North America -- Politics and government.
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Indians of North America -- Ethnic identity.
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| ISBN |
9781594633157 (hardcover) |
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1594633150 (hardcover) |
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