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Descripton : a sweeping history and counter narrative of native american life from the wounded knee massacre to the present dee brown s 1970 bury my heart at wounded knee was the first truly popular book of indian history ever published but it promulgated the impression that american indian history essentially ended with the 1890 massacre at wounded knee that not only did one hundred fifty sioux die at the hands of the u s cavalry but native civilization did as well growing up ojibwe on a reservation in minnesota training as an anthropologist and researching native life past and present for his nonfiction and novels david treuer uncovered a different narrative instead of disappearing and despite or perhaps because of intense struggles to preserve their language their culture their very families the story of american indians since the end of the nineteenth century to the present is one of unprecedented growth and rebirth in the heartbeat of wounded knee treuer melds history with reportage and memoir beginning with the tribes devastating loss of land and the forced assimilation of their children at government run boarding schools he shows how the period of greatest adversity also helped to incubate a unifying native identity he traces how conscription in the us military and the pull of urban life brought indians into the mainstream and modern times even as it steered the emerging shape of their self rule and spawned a new generation of resistance in addition treuer explores how advances in technology allowed burgeoning indian populations across the continent to come together as never before fostering a political force photographs maps and other visuals from period advertisements to little known historical photos amplify the sense of accessing a fascinating and untold story the heartbeat of wounded knee is an essential intimate history and counter narrative of a resilient people in a transformative era