The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present

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History Unplugged

Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 23 May 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

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. Not only did one hundred fifty Sioux die at the hands of the U. S. Cavalry, the sense was, but Native civilization did as well.

Today's guest David Treuer has a different take on this history. Growing up Ojibwe on a reservation in Minnesota, training as an anthropologist, and researching Native life past and present, Treuer argues strongly against this narrative. Because American Indians 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.

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1:27.4	In 1890, the massacre at Wounded Knee Creek on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota
1:32.5	was cast in the American popular imagination as a point of no return for American Indian life.
1:37.6	Not only did hundreds of Lakota men, women, and children die, but in a sense,
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