The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee by David Trueur

There is a saying we repeat at Passover every year which goes like this: They Tried To Kill Us, We Survived, Let's Eat.  This has the same message, but without the emphasis on food.
This is a book about the history of American Indians, largely stripped of emotion and historically accurate, but not delving very far into any particular time period.  The book is anchored by the aauthor's past and present.  He was raised on the Ojibwe reservation at Leech Lake in Minnesota, the son of a Jewish father and an Ojibwe mother, and his vision of America derived from his upbringing informs every page of this book.   His is a fascinating personal vision and in its own way uniquely American.  Treuer relies on extended interviews and personal memoir to tell his tale.
It is a painful history to read, one that rings true from previous knowledge but somehow more devastating for being laid out so matter-of-factly.  The hubris of the white man is deep and wide, reaching out into modern politics, having a voice being raised due to the overt racism of the current administration.  This book aims not to blame, but to revise the image of the Indian long prevalent in American literature and historiography as the Vanishing American, a race so compromised by disease, war and intermarriage that it is destined to disappear. His perspective is one of Native American resiliency and survival.