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The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee (Young Readers Adaptation): Life in Native America by David Treuer
susanbrooks's review against another edition
4.0
History and illustrative anecdotes about Native Americans since 1890.
I liked the mix, and the author’s reflections and opinions.
I liked the mix, and the author’s reflections and opinions.
regularfantasyreader's review against another edition
challenging
dark
hopeful
informative
sad
slow-paced
5.0
Like most people, I knew about the more notable instances of our government mistreating the various tribes around the nation - like The Trail of Tears and Wounded Knee - but didn’t know much beyond that. This book does a great job of showing what life has been like since then (though there’s plenty of coverage of Native American history from way back right up until the 1800s), and what it’s like now. Although it ends on a hopeful note, it is not a light read, and the long history of lying, cheating, and stealing from Native Americans is covered pretty thoroughly.
samanne's review against another edition
5.0
Deserves all the praise. So refreshing to read a Native American history that includes modern times and documents all the innovation, creativity and perseverance happening in Indian Country today. I appreciated how Treuer goes indepth in how Tribes are shaping America as a whole--laws, culture, society--and how the stories we tell ourselves, our communities tell ourselves, shapes our abilities to survive and thrive.
smzalokar's review against another edition
5.0
*Required reading for anyone with an interest in the history of American Indians.
I would give it 6 stars ✨ if I could. It might be little dry to actually read, but I listened to the audio book and was suitable enthralled.
I would give it 6 stars ✨ if I could. It might be little dry to actually read, but I listened to the audio book and was suitable enthralled.
aisteinberg's review against another edition
5.0
just finished this absolute odyssey through American and native and Native American history and WOW. Everybody should have to read this to truly understand this country and its history.
christine_exlibris's review against another edition
5.0
This is my first time reading this author but it certainly won't be my last.
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee is a work of 'heart' written with insight and truth. It is very much where Wounded Knee ended and up to the most recent cultural events in America. This is about where many American Indian tribes have extended throughout the U.S., whether on remote reservations or in urban settings, to live and adapt in changing times. Indeed, Treuer deftly maps out historical events from the massacre at Wounded Knee to the present day, by examining what it means to be Native through one-on-one interviews that he conducted. He also takes a look at the 'Water Protectors' advocates defending the water systems at Standing Rock. This is not Dee Brown's book and I'm glad for it!
It is a chronicle of hope and a steadfast resilience of Native peoples in the face of adversity but in more contemporary settings. Particularly since governments in the last century have attempted to
completely eradicate Indigenous culture and language through attempted assimilation such as the boarding or residential schools.
This is an account of how modernity is shaping future generations of American Indians as educators, scholars, and activists striving to protect their cultures, languages, and Indigenous ways of knowing. What non-Indigenous people need to know is that today Indigenous Peoples living in the U.S. and Canada are for the most part revitalizing their languages and cultures throughout North America.
Most of all, I believe that one way to understand modern America is to understand how it has brought us to where we are now. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in the history of Native tribes in America. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee is outstanding.
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee is a work of 'heart' written with insight and truth. It is very much where Wounded Knee ended and up to the most recent cultural events in America. This is about where many American Indian tribes have extended throughout the U.S., whether on remote reservations or in urban settings, to live and adapt in changing times. Indeed, Treuer deftly maps out historical events from the massacre at Wounded Knee to the present day, by examining what it means to be Native through one-on-one interviews that he conducted. He also takes a look at the 'Water Protectors' advocates defending the water systems at Standing Rock. This is not Dee Brown's book and I'm glad for it!
It is a chronicle of hope and a steadfast resilience of Native peoples in the face of adversity but in more contemporary settings. Particularly since governments in the last century have attempted to
completely eradicate Indigenous culture and language through attempted assimilation such as the boarding or residential schools.
This is an account of how modernity is shaping future generations of American Indians as educators, scholars, and activists striving to protect their cultures, languages, and Indigenous ways of knowing. What non-Indigenous people need to know is that today Indigenous Peoples living in the U.S. and Canada are for the most part revitalizing their languages and cultures throughout North America.
Most of all, I believe that one way to understand modern America is to understand how it has brought us to where we are now. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in the history of Native tribes in America. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee is outstanding.
emagoon22's review against another edition
5.0
Yes this took me 4 months to read but this really was a great book. Native Americans were violently and continuously pushed out of *their own* land and are still here today only because of their resistance and community. You can’t understand America without understanding Indian history - educating ourselves on Indian culture and the land we inhabit is one of the most radical ways we can support a people our ancestors tried to terminate.
“bending to a common purpose is more important than arising from a common place.”
“the ways in which we tell the story of our reality shapes that reality: the manner of telling makes the world.”
“bending to a common purpose is more important than arising from a common place.”
“the ways in which we tell the story of our reality shapes that reality: the manner of telling makes the world.”
tlrrp0405's review against another edition
5.0
This was an incredible, heartbreaking and somehow inspiring book - and I suppose that’s the way Treuer intended it. I was blown away, dismayed and embarrassed reading about the atrocities committed against the indigenous communities of US. And yet Treuer finds a way to juxtapose centuries of massacre, starvation and oppression with the stories of today’s communities that are surviving and thriving. A brilliantly reported, recorded and composed history. So thankful to have read this.
aaronsteve's review against another edition
4.0
Stirring. On the one hand a good and necessary corrective to the general narrative of native death (reinforced in Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee), on the other hand a personal journey to find the ways in which Native Americans have survived and even thrived in the years since. It doesn't 100% come together in my view, but as a story of fusion at the frontier (between older ways and the present) it is legitimately inspiring.
Very worthwhile.
Very worthwhile.