Hello friends, welcome, so glad that you're with me today.

I recently read a book that I found so compelling and also just incredibly eye-opening and helpful.

It is called the Heartbeat of Wounded Knee.

And if you are like most Americans, myself included, who finds themselves sort of woefully

uneducated about Native American history in the United States, you're in a love hearing

today from David Troyer, the author, and I think you're also going to really love what

you're going to learn in the pages of the Heartbeat of Wounded Knee.

So let's dive in.

I'm Sharon McMahon, and here's where it gets interesting.

Thank you so much for being here today.

I'm really excited to be chatting.

I appreciate your time.

We are from the same geographical portion of the United States, the northwards of Northern

Minnesota.

But I would imagine we had very, very different growing up experiences.

And I would love to have you tell everybody a little bit more about what life was like

for you growing up.

Yeah, I imagine we did have some different experiences.

I have such a weird family history and background.

My father is an Austrian Jewish Holocaust survivor who after living many lifetimes washed

up in Northern Minnesota in Kass Lake on the reservation, teaching high school English

on the reservation, my mother is from that reservation Ojibwe from a big, complicated

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