If you are interested in savoring the emotional tone (as well as listening to some of the crucial ideas) of the emerging Indian protest movement, you will find [Custer Died for Your Sins] useful and important. Indian resentment toward white men and white society is set forth with memorable vividness….

But this book is no mere negative diatribe. In it we find set forth the essence of a program for rehabilitating Indian society, perhaps even for saving white society in the bargain….

The book is full of exaggeration—much of it quite deliberate. It contains many paradoxes, if not contradictions. Yet its message emerges with startling clarity. It is a message worth hearing.

Tyler Thompson, "Red, Brown Protest," in The Christian Century (copyright 1970 Christian Century Foundation; reprinted by permission from the February 18, 1970 issue of The Christian Century), Vol. 87, No. 7, February 18, 1970, p. 213.∗