Because the U.S. government and the white settlers treated Native Americans so unjustly, any book dealing with Native Americans contains socially sensitive elements. When the red and white worlds collided, a typical chain of events occurred: councils were held and treaties signed; Native American lands were ceded and inviolable boundaries marked; peaceful years followed while more and more white settlers encroached on Native American lands, breaking treaties; Native Americans protested in vain, then fought, and the white victories inevitably followed. A history of the numerous broken treaties between the U.S. government and Native American tribes is available in Helen Hunt Jackson's A Century of Dishonor (1881). Or, as Red Cloud, an Oglala Sioux, said about the white man and his promises: 'They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land and they...