On March 12th, 2019, University of Southern California Professor, David Treuer, spoke at the Country Bookshelf about his work and his latest book,  THE HEARTBEAT OF WOUNDED KNEE: NATIVE AMERICA FROM 1890 TO THE PRESENT, published by Riverhead Books.  He is a critically acclaimed writer, anthropologist, and journalist, and an Ojibwe from the Leech Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota. He traces the rich, resilient and multi-dimensional story that Native people have been living over the past century, and adds new chapters to the story of American Indian creativity and resilience in our modern times.  The massacre at Wounded Knee was indisputably a devastating low point—but seen clearly, it is only one of many challenges to which Indian people have risen tirelessly, and with ingenuity, since first contact.