The Sea of Grass: A Family Tale from the American Heartland essays Treuer brings a novelist's storytelling

Treuer brings a novelist's storytelling skill and an eye for detail to a complex and subtle examination of Native American reservation life

She had so many children she didn't know what to do

Having never taken himself too seriously

who was born in the mid-19th century and lived during a chaotic time of enormous change

The Sea of Grass: A Family Tale from the American Heartland essays Treuer brings a novelist's storytellingThis historical fiction novel is inspired by real people and events that were shaped by the land, animals, and plants of the Central Plains and by the long sweep of Indigenous history in the grasslands. Major events are presented from a Pawnee perspective to capture the outlook of the Echo Hawk ancestors. The oral tradition from ten generations of Echo Hawk's family tell the stories of the spiritual side of Native life, and give voice to the rich