Not uninteresting. I learned a lot about American Indian culture and lifestyle. I thoroughly enjoyed that. The book is a bit disjointed though. The idea of the book was nice, the drawings and the interviews, but the white people from the town were sort of despicable -- but I suppose that is us. ( )

The flat and dull text is kept from sinking this book by throwing in lots of illustrations by the author. But the art isn't that great either.

I support the cause of preserving Oak Flat for the Apache who hold it sacred against a destructive copper mining project planned for the area, but the narrative meanders around so much and noodles about in digressions, I'm not sure there is a persuasive point made nearly as effectively as the subtitle. And its one of those books that wants to draw attention to an issue, throwing in opposing viewpoints and tons of quotes from people effected, but the author never definitively comes out and says this sucks, let's oppose it and let's do these things to stop this crap.

This isn't history. This is happening right now. Without taking a stand and offering an action plan, the whole thing becomes a big shrug: "Aah, so sad. Now what will my next book be about?" ( )