David J. reviewed on 4/18/2012

Excellent depiction of the result of the immoral Indian wars in contemporary Indian Country. What was done to Native Americans (no different from any place Westerners decided that they could 'own' a peoples and their resources) was an outrage, and this book shows its effect. For a fuller picture, read FOOLS CROW by the same author, James Welch, himself a Native American. This book is a predecessor to WINTER IN THE BLOOD; we all know highlights of history like Wounded Knee and Custer's Last Stand (though we don't know about pieces of history from the stealing of Indian lands to using Native Americans for target practice and an early use of 'germ warfare' (giving Native Americans the blankets of those soldiers who had died of smallpox...). Too many Americans don't recognize that 'they were here first'; many don't even realize that there are ANY Native Americans living east of the Mississippi!!!

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