The Forum with David Treuer: The Savage Mind

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Co-presented with Litquake “Unlike anything I have read…this book will make a mark.” — Percival Everett, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author of James In the wake of George Floyd’s murder and January 6, National Book Award finalist and bestseller David Treuer decided to hold himself and his family together the only way he knew how: he sat down to write a letter. Ranging from Treuer’s upbringing on the Leech Lake reservation in Minnesota to the experiences of his parents, a Jewish Holocaust refugee and the first American Indigenous woman judge, The Savage Mind reveals the terrifying essence of our nation: frontier violence, which has defined our country, culture, and very selves. Join Malcolm Clemens Young, dean of Grace Cathedral, for a conversation with Treuer about his searing exploration of American violence, which poses the question: How do we understand America, ourselves, and the impulses that seem intent on destroying both? Buy The Savage Mind: An American Legacy. Books will also be available for purchase at The Forum. Watch Fellow Spotlight: David Treuer Registration is recommended but not required. The Forum will be posted on our Youtube and Apple Podcast channels. Give To Grace You can help us bring the arts to life at Grace with a gift today to The Forum. Click here to give. About the Guest New York Times bestselling author and editor David Treuer is Ojibwe from Leech Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota. He is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, three Minnesota Book Awards, and fellowships from the NEH, Bush Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation, and was a Fellow at the American Academy Berlin. Treuer’s forthcoming book, The Savage Mind: An American Legacy, will be released on October 6, 2026. His most recent book, The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present, was a New York Times bestseller, a National Book Award Finalist, a Minnesota Book Prize winner, a California Book Prize winner, a Los…

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