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David Treuer Examines America’s Conflicting Inheritances
· New York time
David Treuer, author of The Savage Mind, argues that America’s violent past remains embedded in its present. NPR’s account describes sharply different family experiences: his Ojibwe mother saw a country that tried to destroy her people, while his Jewish refugee father saw the country that saved his life. Those perspectives resist a single reassuring national story. They also give his argument a personal foundation rather than an abstract slogan. The familiar demand to simplify American history meets a household in which the competing accounts already know each other and cannot simply be dismissed from the room.
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