Peter Cozzens, The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West (New York: Knopf, 2016) ("In fact, the transformation of the Lakota world, and of the Indian West, had come in the blink of an ye. Less than a generation had passed since Red Cloud had won his war on the Bozeman Trails forts but then gradually lost the peace. The Lakotas had held the Crow lands they had conquered for less than a decade. It had been fifteen years since the great but ultimately Pyrrhic Indian victory at the Little Bighorn. Now nothing remained. The Lakotas, the Cheyennes, the Arapahos, the Nez Perces, the Utes, the Modocs, the Apaches, and even some Texan-hating Kiowas and Comanches had tried to coexist amicably with the white man, but he would not be peacefully contained. Tribes had divided bitterly over the issue of war or peace. The Indians who had gone to war against the government had usually done so reluctantly, and they had lost their land and their way of life anyway." "Accommodation had failed. War had failed. And the bullet-riven Ghost Shirts buried with their wearers in the mass grave on the lone knoll about Wounded Knee Creek were ample proof that religion too had failed the Indians. There was no room left for the Indians in the West but what the government saw fit to permit them. One elderly Lakota chief who had witnessed the march of events form Treaty of Fort Laramie in 1851 to the tragedy at Wounded Knee four decades later saw nothing remarkable in what had transpired. 'The [government] made us many promises,' he told a white friend, 'more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and he took it.'" Id. at 465-466. Perhaps that is the takeaway lesson all nonwhite American should bear in mind. Also see, Douglas Brinkley, "Unbury My Heart at Wounded Knee," NYT Book Review, Sunday, 11/13/2016.).
Peter Nabokob, How the World Moves: The Odyssey of an American Indian Family (New York: Viking, 2015).
Andres Resendez, The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America (Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016) (From the book jacket: "Resendez builds the incisive case that it was mass slavery--more than epidemics--that decimated Indian populations across North America. New evidence, including testimonies of courageous priests, rapacious merchants, Indian captives, and Anglo colonists, sheds light too on Indian enslavement of other indians--as what started as a European business passed into the hand of indigenous operators and spread like wildfire cross vast tracts of the American Southwest.").
