NYT Best Nonfiction 2019

 

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1. The heartbeat of Wounded Knee: native America from 1890 to the present

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Treuer, David
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Hamden/Miller Adult Nonfiction 3rd Floor
970.0049/TRE
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The received idea of Native American history -- as promulgated by books like Dee Brown's 1970 mega-bestselling Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee -- has been that American Indian history essentially ended with the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee. 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...