The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee

Native America from 1890 to the Present

By: David Treuer

Indians of North America

a sweeping history—and counter-narrative—of native american life from the wounded knee massacre to the present.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...