Daniel Sharfstein's book Thunder in the Mountains: Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce War is the topic of my column this week for the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Please check out the full column by clicking here.
If you are interested in learning more than the column but less than the full book, I also recommend the speech "An Indian's View of Indian Affairs," which, as I suggest in the column, is good stuff:
Treat all men alike. Give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. All men were made by the same Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers. ...Let me be a free man—free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to think and talk and act for myself...
