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A review by somestuff
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Treuer
medium-paced
5.0
The most concise way to describe this book is ‘it coheres’.
But truly it is a masterful combination of summary of larger economic/social/governmental policy matched with real lived examples of the multitude of effects good and bad each of those policy changes had on individuals within tribes.
This is really an incredible work of history sociology and biography that places each larger event you know of (like the dawes act, or the alcatraz occupation, all the way through standing rock) truly within the context of the longer and larger history of both individual tribes as well as natives as a whole class together.
But truly it is a masterful combination of summary of larger economic/social/governmental policy matched with real lived examples of the multitude of effects good and bad each of those policy changes had on individuals within tribes.
This is really an incredible work of history sociology and biography that places each larger event you know of (like the dawes act, or the alcatraz occupation, all the way through standing rock) truly within the context of the longer and larger history of both individual tribes as well as natives as a whole class together.
Content Warnings
Moderate: War, Suicide, Murder, and Addiction
Minor: Rape and Sexual assault