The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee pt. 2

More quotes, more facts

Hi folks -

Back again with another installment from this gem of a book. I'm not sure if I've mentioned that David Treuer is also the son of a Holocaust survivor. He writes of his father - "[he] adopted the reservation as his home and had adopted our causes as his own. I asked him how he had come to feel so comfortable on the reservation. I was a refugee, I was an outsider. I was told throughout my life I wasn't enough, I wasn't good enough, I didn't belong. When I came here I felt at home. I felt like people understood me" (13). That is powerful. I also think that we assume so much about others, who they belong to their ancestors. We literally never know.