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    Name: Antiracism Book Club
    Date: August 18, 2022
    Time: 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM CDT
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    Event Description:

    Join us in July & August via Zoom to discuss The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee, by David Treuer.

    In The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee, Treuer melds history with reportage and memoir. Tracing the tribes’ distinctive cultures from first contact, he explores how the depredations of each era spawned new modes of survival. The devastating seizures of land gave rise to increasingly sophisticated legal and political maneuvering that put the lie to the myth that Indians don’t know or care about property. The forced assimilation of their children at government-run boarding schools incubated a unifying Native identity. Conscription in the US military and the pull of urban life brought Indians into the mainstream and modern times, even as it steered the emerging shape of self-rule and spawned a new generation of resistance. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee is the essential, intimate story of a resilient people in a transformative era.

    Register at the link below to receive a Zoom link to this free event.

    Location:

    Shake Rag Alley Center for the Arts, Mineral Point

    online via Zoom

    Date/Time Information:

    Thursday, July 21 & August 18, 2022

    6:30-8 pm

    Contact Information:
    Sara Lomasz Flesch, Director Shake Rag Alley Center for the Arts
    Fees/Admission:
    FREE
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