Do We Have The History Of Native Americans Backward? [newyorker.com]
By David Treuer, Art work: Gilbert Charles Stuart/British Museum, The New Yorker, November 7, 2022 I remember when I first encountered what must be the best-selling book of Native American history ever published, “ Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee ,” by Dee Brown. I was twenty years old, and had made my way from the Leech Lake Reservation, in northern Minnesota, where I grew up, to Princeton, in a part of New Jersey that seemed to have no Indians at all. Since “Bury My Heart” appeared, in 1970,...