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An Indian's Journey Through Reservation Life
Atlantic Monthly Press
February 2012
On Sale: February 7, 2012
382 pages
ISBN: 0802119719
EAN: 9780802119711
Kindle: B0074A6F26
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Non-Fiction History
Celebrated novelist David Treuer has gained a reputation for
writing fiction that expands the horizons of Native American
literature. In Rez Life, his first full-length work of
nonfiction, Treuer brings a novelist’s storytelling skill
and an eye for detail to a complex and subtle examination of
Native American reservation life, past and present. With authoritative research and reportage, Treuer
illuminates misunderstood contemporary issues of
sovereignty, treaty rights, and natural-resource
conservation. He traces the waves of public policy that have
disenfranchised and exploited Native Americans, exposing the
tension that has marked the historical relationship between
the United States government and the Native American
population. Through the eyes of students, teachers,
government administrators, lawyers, and tribal court judges,
he shows how casinos, tribal government, and the Bureau of
Indian Affairs have transformed the landscape of Native
American life. A member of the Ojibwe of northern Minnesota, Treuer grew up
on Leech Lake Reservation, but was educated in mainstream
America. Exploring crime and poverty, casinos and wealth,
and the preservation of native language and culture, Rez
Life is a strikingly original work of history and reportage,
a must read for anyone interested in the Native American story.
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