David Treuer Books
David Treuer is an Ojibwe author and academic from the Leech Lake Reservation in Minnesota. He has written several acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction exploring Native American identity, history, and contemporary life.
Known for: The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present
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The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present
A sweeping history and cultural narrative that reexamines Native American life after the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee, challenging the notion that Indigenous history ended there. David Treuer combines historical research, reportage, and memoir to show the resilience, adaptation, and ongoing vitality of Native peoples in the modern era.
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Wounded Knee and the Myth of an Ending
When I returned to the story of Wounded Knee, I approached it not as an endpoint, but as a beginning. The massacre of nearly three hundred Lakota men, women, and children in the winter of 1890 has long stood as a symbol of Native defeat. Yet in reality, it was the start of a new, complex era — one d...
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Adaptation and Resistance in the Early 20th Century
In the decades that followed Wounded Knee, federal policy aimed to dissolve Native identity itself. The Dawes Act parceled communal lands into individual allotments, breaking tribal land bases and undermining traditional governance. Boarding schools sought to erase languages, hair, ceremonies — to r...
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About David Treuer
David Treuer is an Ojibwe author and academic from the Leech Lake Reservation in Minnesota. He has written several acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction exploring Native American identity, history, and contemporary life.
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