'The Savage Mind' author says America's violent past is embedded in its present

NPR | By Tonya Mosley

Published October 20, 2026 at 9:53 AM MDT

Writer David Treuer's Ojibwe mother saw America as a country that tried to destroy her people. For his father, a Jewish refugee, the U.S. was the country that saved his life.

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