A sweeping history--and counter-narrative--of Native American life from the Wounded Knee massacre to the present.
Dee Brown's 1970 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee was the first truly popular book of Indian history ever published. But it promulgated the impression that American Indian history essentially ended with the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee--that 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 life past and present for his nonfiction and novels, David Treuer uncovered a different narrative. Instead of disappearing, and despite--or perhaps because of--intense struggles to preserve their language, their culture, their very families, the story of American Indians since the end of the nineteenth century to the present is one of unprecedented growth and rebirth.
In The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee, Treuer melds history with reportage and memoir. Beginning with the tribes' devastating loss of land and the forced assimilation of their children at government-run boarding schools, he shows how the period of greatest adversity also helped to incubate a unifying Native identity. He traces how conscription in the US military and the pull of urban life brought Indians into the mainstream and modern times, even as it steered the emerging shape of their self-rule and spawned a new generation of resistance. In addition, Treuer explores how advances in technology allowed burgeoning Indian populations across the continent to come together as never before, fostering a political force. Photographs, maps, and other visuals, from period advertisements to little-known historical photos, amplify the sense of accessing a fascinating and untold story. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee is an essential, intimate history--and counter-narrative--of a resilient people in a transformative era.
0 有用 Jarhead 2019-04-14 14:28:43
我觉得结尾说的很有意思:我们不能允许自己被屠杀两次:肉体上被枪炮打败一次,再被描写成受害者,让人一提到印第安人就想到受害的历史而不是多元的文化,这无异于用笔再把我们屠杀了一次。
0 有用 子扉我[已注销] 2019-01-31 13:19:01
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0 有用 坏猪的坏_开心的 2021-02-20 13:13:29
和BLM,Me Too等运动比起来,北美原住民的声音确实是小了不少啊
0 有用 茉梨花花花花花 2021-08-12 11:00:13
Blink每日一读
0 有用 茉梨花花花花花 2021-08-12 11:00:13
Blink每日一读
0 有用 坏猪的坏_开心的 2021-02-20 13:13:29
和BLM,Me Too等运动比起来,北美原住民的声音确实是小了不少啊
0 有用 Jarhead 2019-04-14 14:28:43
我觉得结尾说的很有意思:我们不能允许自己被屠杀两次:肉体上被枪炮打败一次,再被描写成受害者,让人一提到印第安人就想到受害的历史而不是多元的文化,这无异于用笔再把我们屠杀了一次。
0 有用 子扉我[已注销] 2019-01-31 13:19:01
https://athenacool.wordpress.com/2019/01/31/the-heartbeat-of-wounded-knee/