No more Native American 'trauma porn'

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Cultural historian David Treuer thinks it’s time for a new kind of Native American narrative, with fewer stories of hardship and what he calls “trauma porn.” Treuer is Ojibwe. He grew up on the Leech Lake Reservation in Minnesota, went to Princeton, studied anthropology and creative writing under Toni Morrison, and has published a string of award-winning books. He talked with Steve Paulson about his sweeping counter-narrative of Native American history, “The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee."