Teaching Native American resilience and resistance with The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee Available to Purchase

Written as a “counternarrative to the story that has been told about us,” (p. 6), The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee is Ojibwe author David Treuer's account of Native American history since 1890 (Treuer, 2023). Treuer opens his work by recounting the horrific events of the Wounded Knee Massacre on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, before outlining how the last major armed conflict between the US government and Native Americans distorts contemporary Americans' view Native American people and their history today. In short, Treuer believes that subsequent acts of genocide and dispossession, as well as Native resistance and resilience...