David W. Grua. Surviving Wounded Knee

History often comes in cycles: some topics lie dormant for years, only to reappear as new sources and new interpretations that call for revision. The story of the massacre at Wounded Knee first appeared as a defense of the army’s role—the Ghost Dancers were simply fanatics who started the trouble. Then came Dee Brown’s Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970), which lacked much in terms of serious research (the entire event was covered in just six pages), but made up for it with a passionate and shocking cry that attempted to indict Americans for their treatment of Indians. Most recently, by far the best account of the events leading up to the so-called “battle” and the slaughter that ensued is Jerome A. Greene’s American Carnage: Wounded Knee, 1890 (2014). And now, in Surviving Wounded Knee: The Lakotas and the Politics of Memory, David W. Grua has gone beyond Greene to look at how the event shaped the history of Indian-white relations on the northern plains in the fifty years after the massacre.

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