Native America from 1890 to the Present
by David Treuer
Recommended by Barack Obama and Nancy Pearl
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See customer reviews on Amazon →Treuer mixes reporting, legal-history digging, and close cultural portraiture to unsettle tidy stories about Wounded Knee. Chapters work as vivid, often fragmentary scenes rather than a single linear narrative, leaving archival detail and contemporary observation to push and complicate received myths. That approach supplies rich material for someone who wants texture and counter-narratives, but it also creates uneven pacing: legal and archival detours slow momentum and some readers will find recurring asides repetitive or sketchy where they expected a continuous account.
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FINALIST FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCEA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Chapter after chapter, it's like one shattered myth after another." NPR"An informed, moving and kaleidoscopic portrait... Treuer's powerful book suggests the need for soulsearching about the meanings of American hist...
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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in American History, Most Recommended Books, and History.
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