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Selected by Kathy Fagan as a winner of the 2018 National Poetry Series

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The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present Oji-Cree Sequoyah keeps mostly to himselfA sweeping historyand counter narrativeof Native American life from the Wounded Knee massacre to the present. The received idea of Native American historyas promulgated by books like Dee Brown's mega bestselling 1970 Bury My Heart at Wounded Kneehas been that American Indian history essentially ended with the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee. Not only did one hundred fifty Sioux die at the hands of the U. S. Cavalry, the sense was, but Native