BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE

Beginning with the Sioux victory over George Custer at Little Big Horn, the book intertwines the unique perspectives of three characters: Charles Eastman, a young, Dartmouth-educated, Sioux doctor held up as living proof of the alleged success of assimilation; Sitting Bull, the proud Lakota chief who refused to submit to U.S. government policies designed to strip his people of their identity, their dignity and their sacred land-the gold-laden Black Hills of the Dakotas; and Senator Henry Dawes, one of the architects of the government policy on Indian affairs.