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(0)David Treuer
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Pub. Date
2019.
Appears on these lists
Fitchburg - Native American Heritage Month
Milford Town Library - Native American Heritage Month
Pittsfield - CELEBRATING NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE
Springfield - Native American Heritage Month
Milford Town Library - Native American Heritage Month
Pittsfield - CELEBRATING NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE
Springfield - Native American Heritage Month
Description
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. Not only did one hundred fifty Sioux die at the hands of the U. S. Cavalry, the sense was, but Native civilization did as well. Growing up Ojibwe on a reservation in Minnesota, training as an anthropologist, and researching...
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Overview: Celebrated novelist David Treuer has gained a reputation for writing fiction that expands the horizons of Native American literature. In Rez Life, his first full-length work of nonfiction, Treuer brings a novelist's storytelling skill and an eye for detail to a complex and subtle examination of Native American reservation life, past and present. With authoritative research and reportage, Treuer illuminates misunderstood contemporary issues...
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Since the late 1800s, it has been believed that Native American civilization has been wiped from the United States. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee argues that Native American culture is far from defeated--if anything, it is thriving as much today as it was one hundred years ago. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee looks at Native American culture as it exists today--and the fight to preserve language and traditions"-- Provided by publisher.
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Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Little is set in the fictional reservation town of Poverty, Minnesota, and tells the story of a boy named little and three generations of his family. Among them is Donovan, rescued as a boy from a car half-buried by snow; Stan, a veteran of the Vietnam war; Duke and Ellis, the twins who built the first house in Poverty; and Jeannette, the matriarch who walked hundreds of miles to reunite with her family."-- Provided by publisher.
