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1. What is the book about?

The book is the story of what Indians in the United States have doing in the 128 years since 1890 when at least 150 Lakota Sioux were massacred at Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota. It tells what Indians have done, what happened to them, and what their lives have been like. It is about Indian life, not Indian death.

2. Who survived the massacre at Wounded Knee, and what did they go on to do?

On that cold South Dakota day in 1890, more than 200 Lakota survived Wounded Knee and lived on. They lived on to experience the pain of loss, but much else as well. They survived to live and grow. They survived to marry and have babies. They survived to hold on to their Lakota ways or convert to Christianity and drop those ways. They survived to settle on the reservation and later move to cities. They survived to go to school, to college, and to work. They survived to make mistakes and to come back from them. They survived to make history and to make life.

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