Gives wonderful details about the history of the Lakota people and their struggle to keep the sacred Black Hills. ( )

"Ostler's powerful history of the Lakotas' struggle captures the heart of a people whose deep relationship with their homeland would compel them to fight for it against overwhelming odds, on battlefields as varied as the Little Bighorn and the chambers of the U.S. Supreme Court. "Ostler wonderfully distills the complex history of the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty and its traumatic aftermath....This is a wonderful and eminently readable narrative."—Ned Blackhawk, Yale University.