DAVID TREUER is Ojibwe from the Leech Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota. His most recent book is The Savage Mind: An American Legacy (Little Brown and Company). His book The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present was a New York Times bestseller, a National Book Award finalist, a Minnesota Book Prize winner, a California Book Prize winner, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist, and a Carnegie Medal finalist. His work has appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and Harper’s Magazine. He divides his time between his home on the Leech Lake Reservation and Los Angeles, where he is a professor of English at the University of Southern California.
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