Book Review - The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present

Not only is this a valuable history, but it may contain the best paragraph EVER about the native experience in U.S. history:

...more than two hundred Lakota who survived Wounded Knee . . . lived on—to experience the pain of loss, yes, but much more as well. They survived to live and grow, to get married and have babies. They survived to hold on to their Lakota ways or to convert to Christianity and let those ways recede. They survived to settle on the reservation and, later, to move to cities. They survived to go to school and to college and to work. They survived to make mistakes and recover from them. They survived to make history, to make meaning, to make life.­­­­