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275 pages: illustrations (black and white), map (black and white) ; 24 cm
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English
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"Since the late 1800s, it has been believed that Native American civilization has been wiped from the United States. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee argues that Native American culture is far from defeated -- if anything, it is thriving as much today as it was one hundred years ago. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee looks at Native American culture as it exists today -- and the fight to preserve language and traditions"--
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512 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
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English
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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. Growing up Ojibwe on a reservation in Minnesota, training as an anthropologist, and...
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