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The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Treuer
2 reviews
kshertz's review against another edition
informative
sad
slow-paced
4.0
The whole history of native Americans is devastating and necessary to learn. My heart broke repeatedly and the shame was real. It’s important everyone reads and learns this history so reparations can actually happen and we can move forward. Maybe. Highly recommend to learn history that was skipped in school.
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Genocide, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual violence, Slavery, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Grief, Murder, Gaslighting, Colonisation, War, and Deportation
somestuff's review
medium-paced
5.0
The most concise way to describe this book is ‘it coheres’.
But truly it is a masterful combination of summary of larger economic/social/governmental policy matched with real lived examples of the multitude of effects good and bad each of those policy changes had on individuals within tribes.
This is really an incredible work of history sociology and biography that places each larger event you know of (like the dawes act, or the alcatraz occupation, all the way through standing rock) truly within the context of the longer and larger history of both individual tribes as well as natives as a whole class together.
But truly it is a masterful combination of summary of larger economic/social/governmental policy matched with real lived examples of the multitude of effects good and bad each of those policy changes had on individuals within tribes.
This is really an incredible work of history sociology and biography that places each larger event you know of (like the dawes act, or the alcatraz occupation, all the way through standing rock) truly within the context of the longer and larger history of both individual tribes as well as natives as a whole class together.
Moderate: Addiction, Suicide, Murder, and War
Minor: Rape and Sexual assault
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