Originally broadcast at 3:30 p.m. EDT Thursday, August 20, 2020.
In The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee, David Treuer melds history with reportage and memoir. Tracing the tribes' distinctive cultures from first contact, he explores how the depredations of each era spawned new modes of survival. The devastating seizures of land gave rise to increasingly sophisticated legal and political maneuvering that put the lie to the myth that Indians don't know or care about property. The forced assimilation of their children at government-run boarding schools incubated a unifying Native identity. Conscription in the US military and the pull of urban life brought Indians into the mainstream and modern times, even as it steered the emerging shape of self-rule and spawned a new generation of resistance. is the essential, intimate story of a resilient people in a transformative era.
David Treuer is Ojibwe from the Leech Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota. The author of four previous novels and two books of nonfiction, he has also written for The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Esquire, Slate, and The Washington Post, among others. He has a Ph.D. in anthropology and teaches literature and creative writing at the University of Southern California.
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Originally broadcast at 10:45 a.m. EDT Friday, August 21, 2020.
Prominent public historian Jon Meacham shares his reflections on our founding document’s lasting power.
Meacham is a presidential historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author. A contributing editor at Time, Meacham is the author of ...
Originally broadcast at 2 p.m. EDT Friday, August 21, 2020.
Rabbi Sid Schwarz continues the Interfaith Friday Series from the Jewish perspective.
Schwarz, a social entrepreneur, author and teacher, is currently a Senior Fellow at Hazon, a national organization based in New York. Schwarz found...
Originally broadcast at 3:30 p.m. EDT Friday, August 21, 2020.
Jon Schmitz, Archivist and Historian for the Chautauqua Institution, discusses the relationship between science and religion on the Chautauqua platform, and how art pointed to a possible bridge.
This series is made possible with a g...