A review by emagoon22
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Treuer

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.”