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Descendants of Wounded Knee

Descendants of Wounded Knee

Paperback

Native American History

ISBN10: 155566461X
ISBN13: 9781555664619
Publisher: Johnson Books
Published: Apr 1 2015
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
In the summer of 1999, Wally Black Elk set off on the two-mile walk from the Pine Ridge Reservation to the tiny border town of Whiteclay, Nebraska. Three days later his horribly mutilated body was discovered next to that of his drinking companion, Ronnie Hard Heart. The murders of the two men are still unsolved and continue to cause brutal clashes between border town cops and the Oglala Lakota. Descendants of Wounded Knee uses the murders as a backdrop to the tribe's historical battle against colonization and a reservation system predicated on assimilation. Life on the Pine Ridge, one of the most violent places in America, is a daily struggle with poverty, disease, alcoholism, and too often brutality. Told with candor, Descendants of Wounded Knee is an unvarnished account of life on the Pine Ridge.

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