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David Treuer

David Treuer is Ojibwe from the Leech Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota. He is a Professor of English at the University of Southern California and the author of seven books of fiction and nonfiction, including, most recently, The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee. (December 2020)

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The Power Brokers

A recent history centers the Lakota and the vast territory they controlled in the story of the formation of the United States.

Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power

by Pekka Hämäläinen

December 3, 2020 issue

Victims of Democracy

November 5, 2020 issue

The mesa at Acoma Pueblo in New Mexico, 1991

Magic Mountains

It’s hard not to feel that we are all caught up, like Hans Castorp in The Magic Mountain, in forces outside our control, despite the fact that real change seems to be one of the results of our unrest.

July 6, 2020

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