Native America from 1890 to Present (9 Weeks)
W 2021

This SDG seeks to examine the history of Native America after the massacre at Wounded Knee to the present. The core book is The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present  written by David Treuer. The book has been widely praised and was a finalist for the 2019 National Book Award. It tells a comprehensive story of Indian survival, resilience, adaptability and pride. It does so in a readable manner combining reportage, memoir and historical scholarship. The book shatters one myth after another and moves seamlessly from the big story to the tales of Native American lives. A beautifully written book telling a story that must be read, studied and understood.

1. Prologue; Part 1 Narrating the Apocalypse; Early Tribes and Homelands; The Southeast; The Seminole Wars; The Northeast; The Northwest; The Great Lakes and the Ohio River Valley.

2 The Southwest; California; The Pacific Northwest; The Great Basin; The Southern Great Plains; The Northern Plains; 1890.

3. Part 2 Purgatory 1891-1934; The End of the Treaty Era; Chief Joseph and Chief Standing Bear; The Beginning of the Indian Rights Movement; The Indian Boarding Schools; Allotment.

4. Indian Offenses; The Seeds of Tribal Resistance; Part 3 Fighting Life 1914-1945; The Meriam Report.

5. Emergence of Tribal Governments; John Collier and the Indian Reorganization; War and Migration; Entering the Cage; Part 4 Moving On Up; Migration; The Kansas Act.

6. Termination; The Indian Claims Commission; Relocation; Part 5 Becoming Indian 1970-1990; The Rise of Red Power; National Indian Youth Council; Panthers and Red Power.

7. The Rise of the American Indian Movement; AIM at  Pine Ridge; War on Poverty; The Indian Education Act; Jumping Bull.

8. Anna Mae Aquash; Part 6 Boom City-Tribal Capitalism; Blood Quantum and Disenrollment.

9. Part 7 Digital Indians 1990-2018; Epilogue. 

David Treuer, The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present, New York,  Riverhead Books,  2019.