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Since the late 1800s, it has been believed that Native American civilization has been wiped from the United States. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee argues that Native American culture is far from defeated—if anything, it is thriving as much today as it was one hundred years ago.
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee looks at Native American culture as it exists today—and the fight to preserve language and traditions.
Adapted for young readers, this important young adult nonfiction audiobook is perfect educational material for children and adults alike.
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Release date
October 18, 2022 -
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9780593634264
- File size: 278257 KB
- Duration: 09:39:42
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Languages
- English
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Reviews
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Tanis Parenteau delivers an efficient narration of Treuer's audiobook. Listeners, especially those familiar with the massacre at Wounded Knee, should make time for this history. Treuer's work is deeply researched, positioning the listener within the histories and first-person accounts of indigenous people of North America and making their experiences and views central to the listening experience, rather than those of European colonizers and U.S. Government officials. The result is an audiobook that seeks to greatly expand the public's general knowledge of Native American history. From the history of fraudulent government treaties to the brutality of the Gold Rush, listeners are provided uncompromising accounts of the oppression and violence tribes have experienced. Parenteau's presentation is clear and thoughtful throughout. S.P.C. © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine -
November 4, 2019
Ojibwe novelist and nonfiction author Treuer (Prudence) offers a counter-narrative to the “same old sad story of the ‘dead Indian’ ” in this forceful, full-scale history of the Native American experience. The book’s title references Dee Brown’s 1970 bestseller, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, and its claim that, between 1860 and 1890, “the culture and civilization of the American Indian was destroyed.” Aiming to recast how Native Americans see themselves as well as how they’re viewed by others, Treuer briskly chronicles the first four centuries of contact between Europeans and American Indians before taking a deep dive into the “untold story of the past 128 years.” He documents Native American heroism in WWI; the 1934 Indian Reorganization Act, which brought New Deal reforms to tribal communities; the post-WWII urban migration of Native Americans; the 1970s occupations of Alcatraz Island and the Bureau of Indian Affairs by members of the American Indian Movement; and the impact of legalized gambling on reservation life. Interwoven with these accounts are profiles of Treuer’s friends and family, and reportage from “Indian homelands” throughout the U.S. His character sketches, of Oglala Lakota chef and cookbook author Sean Sherman, for example, are impactful and finely drawn. This vivid rewriting of the history of Native America should be required reading.
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