books like bury my heart at wounded knee

'The Worry Line' explores the gun and gang violence in her neighborhood the year her daughter was born. In the title chapter, Jensen recalls the discrimination she faced in college as a Native American student from her roommate to her faculty adviser. In Carry, Jensen maps her personal experience onto the historical, exploring how history is lived in the body and redefining the language we use to speak about violence in America. As a Métis woman, she is no stranger to the violence enacted on the bodies of indigenous women, on indigenous land, and the ways it is hidden, ignored, forgotten. And she has always known she is not alone.

As an adult, she's had guns waved in her face in the fracklands around Standing Rock, and felt their silent threat on the concealed-carry campus where she teaches. Toni Jensen grew up in the Midwest around guns: As a girl, she learned how to shoot birds with her father, a card-carrying member of the NRA. 'A powerful, poetic memoir about what it means to exist as an indigenous woman in America, told in snapshots of the author's encounters with gun violence-for readers of Jesmyn Ward and Terese Marie Mailhot. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee is the essential, intimate story of a resilient people in a transformative era. 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 self-rule and spawned a new generation of resistance. The forced assimilation of their children at government-run boarding schools incubated a unifying Native identity. The devastating seizures of land gave rise to increasingly sophisticated legal and political maneuvering that put the lie to the myth that Indians don't know or care about property. Tracing the tribes' distinctive cultures from first contact, he explores how the depredations of each era spawned new modes of survival. In The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee, Treuer melds history with reportage and memoir. Because they did not disappear-and not despite but rather because of their intense struggles to preserve their language, their traditions, their families, and their very existence-the story of American Indians since the end of the nineteenth century to the present is one of unprecedented resourcefulness and reinvention. 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 has uncovered a different narrative. Cavalry, the sense was, but Native civilization did as well. Not only did one hundred fifty Sioux die at the hands of the U. The received idea of Native American history-as promulgated by books like Dee Brown's mega-bestselling 1970 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee-has been that American Indian history essentially ended with the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee.

Books like bury my heart at wounded knee