Tanis Parenteau
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Indigenous Land and Rights: History, Politics, and Future
Indigenous Own Voices
Indigenous People's Day: Adult Nonfiction
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Indigenous Own Voices
Indigenous People's Day: Adult Nonfiction
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Description
The received idea of Native American history -- as promulgated by books like Dee Brown's 1970 mega-bestselling 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, but Native civilization did as well. Growing up Ojibwe on a reservation in Minnesota, training as an anthropologist, and researching Native...