More than any other author, Indian or white, dealing with the topic of current Indian affairs, Vine Deloria has challenged and stimulated the general public and the academic community. The impact of his Custer died for your sins …, We talk, you listen …, and God is red … attests to that. [Behind the trail of broken treaties] is equally provocative. Deloria calls for government adoption of the "Twenty Points" of the caravan of Indians known as the Trail of Broken Treaties that occupied the Bureau of Indian Affairs in 1972. A major goal is to restore authority to make treaties with Indians and to restore Indian tribes to a status of quasi-international independence with the U.S. acting as their protector. Deloria evaluates arguments against this proposal and finds them wanting. He also provides a historical summary of federal treatment of Indians and explains the development of the current Indian protest...