Rez Life, David Treuer
Rez Life, David Treuer
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Rez Life
An Indian's Journey Through Reservation Life

Author: David Treuer

Narrator: Peter Berkrot

Unabridged: 10 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/29/2012


Synopsis

Celebrated novelist David Treuer has gained a reputation for writing fiction that expands the horizons of Native American literature. In Rez Life, his first full-length work of nonfiction, Treuer brings a novelist's storytelling skill and an eye for detail to a complex and subtle examination of Native American reservation life, past and present.

With authoritative research and reportage, Treuer illuminates misunderstood contemporary issues of sovereignty, treaty rights, and natural-resource conservation. He traces the waves of public policy that have disenfranchised and exploited Native Americans, exposing the tension that has marked the historical relationship between the United States government and the Native American population. Through the eyes of students, teachers, government administrators, lawyers, and tribal court judges, he shows how casinos, tribal government, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs have transformed the landscape of Native American life.

A member of the Ojibwe of northern Minnesota, Treuer grew up on Leech Lake Reservation, but was educated in mainstream America. Exploring crime and poverty, casinos and wealth, and the preservation of native language and culture, Rez Life is a strikingly original work of history and reportage, a must listen for anyone interested in the Native American story.

About David Treuer

David Treuer is the author of several books exploring Native American culture, including Native American Fiction, The Translation of Dr. Apelles, The Hiawatha, and Little. He is Ojibwe from the Leech Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota. He grew up on Leech Lake and left to attend Princeton University, where he worked with Paul Muldoon, Joanna Scott, and Toni Morrison. David is the recipient of the Pushcart Prize, and his work has been named an editor's pick by the Washington Post, Time Out, and City Pages. His essays and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Esquire, Slate.com, and the Washington Post. David also teaches literature and creative writing at The University of Southern California. He divides his time between L.A. and The Leech Lake Reservation.


Reviews

Goodreads review by James on May 06, 2014

This particular chapter of the job was a little racist. I was writing a book about members of the Christian Reformed Church in North America, and the publisher told me that I could choose the subjects myself but I had to include some New Mexico Native. I don't remember him saying that I had to have......more

Goodreads review by Colleen on December 09, 2020

This book is one of those that once you have finished reading it, you realized just how much you have learned from it. And it does not hurt that it is beautifully written. David Treuer is Native American and the book is a bIography, of sorts. It is a biography of a Reservation. He captures the stori......more

Goodreads review by Monika on November 08, 2022

To książka napisana przez członka plemienia Odżibuejów, który żyje w rezerwacie i z tego punktu widzenia opowiada właśnie o rezerwatach dla Natywnych Amerykanów. Jest tu rozdział o tym jak rezerwaty powstały jakie rządzą w nim w nich prawa, kto ma prawo do polowań w rezerwatach, o przestępczości na i......more

Goodreads review by Ed on May 15, 2023

More last minute cramming for the 2023 Santa Fe International Literary Festival with tickets to see David Treuer this weekend. There is a lot more non-fiction authors at this year's festival - especially related to Native American history - so I am thankful for that as much like African American his......more

Goodreads review by Walter on November 20, 2019

David introduces a topic about life on the rez with an anecdote from personal experience, and then he explains how the situation got to be that way. It's a unique and interesting method of tracing history and makes the book feel more personal than most books that simply hammer you with dry facts. I......more