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A review by bargainbinkazbrekker
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Treuer
4.25
“… and I can’t help feeling that we’re using modernity in the best possible way: to work together and to heal what was broken.”
There’s not a lot of books that deal with the genocide of a people that take the time to highlight how those people adapted and continue to survive. Countless books written about the indigenous peoples of America focus on the tragedy, the death and apparent eradication. They write like indigenous peoples do not exist today. But they do, they’ve always been here and they continue to be here. Despite how hard America tried, they could never truly kill off the native populations.
There’s not a lot of books that deal with the genocide of a people that take the time to highlight how those people adapted and continue to survive. Countless books written about the indigenous peoples of America focus on the tragedy, the death and apparent eradication. They write like indigenous peoples do not exist today. But they do, they’ve always been here and they continue to be here. Despite how hard America tried, they could never truly kill off the native populations.
this is a book that doesn’t ignore the bloody history of native groups and America but instead of focusing on the death focuses on how groups fought back and survived, how they continue to take back what was stolen from them. This is a book ultimately filled with hope, hope for the indigenous future instead of solely highlighting indigenous death and misery.