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The heartbeat of Wounded Knee, life in Native America, David Treuer ; adapted by Sheila Keenan

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

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Ages 12 and up, VikingGrades 10-12, Viking1120L, Lexile

non fiction

The heartbeat of Wounded Knee

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1319010698

David Treuer ; adapted by Sheila Keenan

life in Native America

Native American history has traditionally been presented as a dead past, a civilzation that ended in 1890 with the massacre of more than 150 Sioux at Wounded Knee, the last major armed conflict between Indians and the US government. In this book, Ojibwe author and academic David Treuer shatters that myth. Through a brilliant blend of historical research, eye-opening interviews wth a broad cross-section of tribal members, and moving personal reflections on growing up Indian, Treuer tells the true story of Native resilience and resistance to being written out of modern American history. The struggle of Native Americans to preserve their tribes, their languages and cultures, and their very existence is intense, complicated, and often heartwrenching. treaties were broken or ignored. Tribal leadership was undermined. Native lands were seized. Indian children were forced to live in state-run boarding schools intent on erasing any traces of Native heritage. Food, housing, and other benefits were deinied. So was the right to vote. But as this groundbreaking book shows, resistance to this "catalog of pain" never flagged. The heartbeat of Native American life, identity, and self-rule beats steady and strong

adolescent