A story of self determination

In 1973, after a protest, members of the Oglala Sioux tribe march to the cemetery where their ancestors were buried

THE HEARTBEAT OF WOUNDED KNEE

Native America From 1890 to the Present 

David Treuer

Riverhead Books

512 pages; $28

Over the past 12 months, Native American politicians, artists and academics have made uncommon gains. Indeed, Native American women helped to make 2018 the Year of the Woman. In November, New Mexican and Kansan voters elected Debra Haaland (Laguna Pueblo) and Sharice Davids (Ho-Chunk) to Congress, while voters in Minnesota elected Peggy Flanagan (Ojibwe) their lieutenant governor. In October, the sociologist Rebecca Sandefur (Chickasaw) and the poet Natalie Diaz (Mojave) won MacArthur Foundation Awards, while throughout the spring and summer, the playwrights Mary Kathryn Nagle (Cherokee),