![]() ![]() ![]() Rather, it is a nuanced hybrd, a memoir, broken into six chapters, each of which begins in the personal, then expands outward to a larger theme. “ is not, for all its intimacy, just as it is not exactly a work of reportage or a work of history. In this searching, at times heartbreaking, but often triumphant mélange of history, journalism, and memoir, Treuer loudly proclaims that all reports of the American Indian’s demise have been greatly exaggerated.” -Hampton Sides, best-selling author of Blood and Thunder ![]() Here is modern America glimpsed through a different membrane, narrated in a fresh new voice. “A gritty, raw, and thoroughly authentic look at reservation life-as experienced from the inside out. Rez Life is a strikingly original work of history and reportage, a must read for anyone interested in the Native American story. Treuer traverses the boundaries of American and Indian identity as he explores crime and poverty, casinos and wealth, and the preservation of his native language and culture. 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.Ī member of the Ojibwe of northern Minnesota, Treuer grew up on the Leech Lake Reservation, but was educated in mainstream America. He traces the convoluted waves of public policy that have deracinated, disenfranchised, and exploited Native Americans, exposing the tension and conflict that has marked the historical relationship between the United States government and the Native American population. With authoritative research and reportage, Treuer illuminates misunderstood contemporary issues of sovereignty, treaty rights, and natural-resource conservation. 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. Celebrated novelist David Treuer has gained a reputation for writing fiction that expands the horizons of Native American literature. ![]()
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