Table of contents: Moving into the Indian Country. On the Threshold of Civilization. Life with the Agency Indians. Brave Bear and the Only One. When Cupid Camps with the Sioux. How Crow King Stopped the Medicine men. The Great Buffalo Hunt at Standing Rock. The Battle of the Little Big Horn. Mrs. Spotted Horn Bull's View of the Custer Tragedy. When Sitting Bull's Medicine Failed. The Death of Sitting Bull. How the Indian Gets his Name. Indian Sympathies. Permanent Indian Villages. On the Making and Breaking of Treaties. Modern Treaty Making. Captain Jack and his Modocs. The Masterly Retreat of Joseph and his Nez Perces. The Unwhipped Utes. Give the Red Man his Portion.

Originally published in 1920. For thirty-eight years, Colonel James McLaughlin, U.S. Indian Inspector, lived among or had official dealings with a race of people little understood by the whites. He came to know individuals of many tribes and in many regions. His records gave faithfully, the Indian viewpoint.

"If his sense of justice had led him to fine discrimination in these matters, the [Native American] would long ago have made an attack on the national Capitol."So wrote Indian Inspector and former agent for the Sioux, James McLaughlin, in 1910.Long used as a source for scholarship on the Battle of the Little Bighorn, McLaughlin's classic memoir is a fascinating read. Acquainted with all of the major Native American personalities of the late 19th century (Red Cloud, Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, Gall, Rain-in-the-Face, etc.), McLaughlin had opportunities to question them at length about their involvement in Custer's last battle.Though more recent research has brought into question some of the Indian accounts in this book, many of them stand and the first-person perspectives are invaluable.In addition, McLaughlin's many years of contact with the Sioux made him an admiring and honest friend. He advocated for policies that were fair to the Indians and, like many others of the period, saw westward expansion as an irreconcilable force that was overwhelming the Native Americans while not supporting their extraordinarily difficult transition to a new way of life.If you buy this book only for the Custer material, it's worth the price of admission. But the work is much richer than that.

A New York Times bestseller—over one million copies sold! A National Book Award winner A Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winner Bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot. Heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, which is based on the author's own experiences, coupled with poignant drawings by Ellen Forney that reflect the character's art, chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy as he attempts to break away from the life he was destined to live. With a forward by Markus Zusak, interviews with Sherman Alexie and Ellen Forney, and black-and-white interior art throughout, this edition is perfect for fans and collectors alike.