I picked this up because the author is local to the region I’m doing a lot of work in this summer. This is a Lakota man’s account of the Battle of Little Big Horn, but from the Lakota perspective. He contextualizes the culture and history of the Lakota leading up to the conflict, including why they were even in that region to begin with, and the overall impact of the “Indian Wars” on the Lakota today.

I found it interesting, but didn’t realize that he was going into the book with the assumption that the reader is already familiar with the Battle of Little Big Horn. I was definitely not. He doesn’t outline everything that was going on, but y’know I could hang. I also found it really repetitive, and a bit confusing since not everything was told in chronological order. He repeated the fact that only 30% of Lakota people speak the language in current times about 6 times in three chapters. If this was written as a series of essays he bundled together I would kinda understand better and it would’ve just needed a better editor, but this is meant to be read as a continuous book. So I dunno.

Overall I liked it and found it informative. I’ll have to seek out some other books to fill in my knowledge gaps though.

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