@article{857785,
      recid = {857785},
      author = {Treuer, David,},
      title = {The heartbeat of Wounded Knee : native America from 1890  to the present /},
      pages = {512 pages :},
      abstract = {"The received idea of Native American history has been  that it essentially ended with the 1890 massacre at Wounded  Knee: Not only did more than 150 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 for his  nonfiction and his novels, David Treuer began to uncover a  different narrative. Not despite but rather because of  American Indians' intense struggles to preserve their  tribes, their cultures, and their very existence, the true  story has been one of unprecedented resourcefulness and  reinvention. In [this book], Treuer melds history with  reportage and memoir to explore how the depredations of  each era spawned new modes of survival. The devastating  seizures of land gave rise to increasingly sophisticated  legal and political maneuvering. The forced assimilation of  children at government-run boarding schools incubated a  unifying Native identity. Conscription in the military and  the pull of urban life brought Indians into the mainstream  and at the same time steered the emerging shape of  self-rule and inspired a new generation of resistance.  [This] is the essential, intimate story of a resilient  people in a transformative epoch."--Dust jacket.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/857785},
}