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The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present

by David Treuer

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 150 Sioux die at the hands of the US Cavalry, the sense was, but Native civilization did as well. Growing up

Publisher

Riverhead Books

Publication date

Nov 05, 2019

Format

Print edition

Pages

528

ISBN

9780399573194