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

The received idea of Native American history, as promulgated by books like Dee Brown's 1970 megabestselling 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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Treuer, David (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Riverhead Books, [2019]
Subjects:	Indians of North America > History > 20th century. Indians of North America > Social conditions > 20th century. HISTORY / Native American. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies.

Table of Contents:

Narrating the apocalypse: 10,000 BCE-1890
Purgatory: 1891-1934
Fighting life: 1914-1945
Moving on up, termination, and relocation: 1945-1970
Becoming Indian: 1970-1990
Boom city: Tribal capitalism in the twenty-first century
Digital Indians: 1990-2018.