David Treuer

David Treuer (born 1970) is an American writer, critic, and academic. As of 2019, he had published seven books, and his 2019 book, ''The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present,'' was a National Book Award Finalist. His work published in 2006 was noted as among the best of the year by several major publications. He published a book of essays in 2006 on Native American fiction that stirred controversy by criticizing major writers of the tradition and concluding, "Native American fiction does not exist."

Interested in language preservation, Treuer and his brother Anton are working on an Ojibwe language grammar. Provided by Wikipedia