Rez Life - a podcast by USC Bedrosian Center

To participate in Native American History Month, we read Rez Life: An Indian's Journey Through Reservation Life by USC Professor David Treuer. Novelist David Treuer's book "blends memoir and history" to render the uniquely beautiful story of the uniquely American places known as reservations. Treuer spirals in and out of personal story, interviews, and historical narrative to paint a full picture of life as an Ojibwe from Leech Lake Reservation. An important book about the power of individual and collective action, the power of place, and how history lives on in our (collective) lives today. "None of the people are dead, none of the sense they made of their lives is dead, and on the reservation at least, none of the whims, acts, and actions of presidents, Indian agents, congressional reformers, tribal leaders, and tribal citizens are dead. Or if any of this is dead, it is certainly not buried: nowhere more than in reservation life can we see, can we feel, the past shaping the present. On the reservation the past is hardly past at all." For links to some of the things we talk about check out the showpage: https://bedrosian.usc.edu/blog/podcast/rez-life This podcast was produced by Aubrey Hicks and Jonathan Schwartz, recorded and mixed by Corey Hedden.

Sponsored by the USC Bedrosian Center
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Recorded at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy
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