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Novelist David Treuer examines Native American reservation life--past and present--illuminating misunderstood contemporary issues of sovereignty, treaty rights, and natural-resource conservation while also exploring crime and poverty, casinos and wealth, and the preservation of native language and culture.

"Dashiell Bad Horse is a man divided. His job as a cop on the Prairie Rose Indian Reservation is just a front for his role as a soldier for the Rez's brutal chief, Red Crow. But beneath both surfaces, Dash is an undercover FBI agent, forced back onto the reservation he escaped years ago to bring Red Crow down, no matter the cost"--Cover pages [4].

FBI agent Manny Tanno is taking some much needed R and R at the site of the Battle of Little Big Horn. But when a death on the reservation cuts his vacation short, he learns that the secrets of the past have a way of stirring up trouble in the present. As a scout for the legendary General Custer, Crow tribe member Levi Star Dancer kept a journal chronicling his exploits from the Battle of the Greasy Grass onward. Now, the missing journal has been...