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Publisher
Riverhead Books
Language
English
Description
Because of their intense struggles to preserve their language, their traditions, their families, and their very existence--the story of American Indians since the end of the nineteenth century to the present is one of unprecedented resourcefulness and reinvention. In The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee, Treuer melds history with reportage and memoir. Tracing the tribes' distinctive cultures from first contact, he explores how the depredations of each era...
3) Prudence
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
x, 253 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In August 1942, Frankie Washburn revisits his Minnesota family before joining the war effort, saying good-bye to family, friends, and the Native American caretaker he held dear. Then a German POW escapes from a nearby camp.