James Welch

In the Two Medicine territory of Montana, an Indian tribe is forced to choose between fighting a futile war or accepting a humiliating surrender

A thirty-two-year old Indian living on a reservation in Montana balks at the emptiness and lonely confines of his life

Examines the Battle of Little Big Horn, also known as Custer's Last Stand, from the account of the Lakota, Sioux, Cheyenne, and Crow, who lived on the Great Plains, and from the perspective of the white settlers, who pushed west across the continent