Thomas Berger, Little Big Man, Fawcett, 1964.

Written by a man known for his probing same about America, the novel is the life story of Jack Crab-the only living survivor of Custer's Last Stand. The novel and the film (With Dustin Hoffman, 1970), were part of a general redress of the Image of the Indian Custer, in this version, is not the Hollywood hero but the more historically accurate eccentric who lost all his men and himself in a battle with the Lakota lead by Crazy Horse.

Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. an Indian History of the American West, Holt, 1970.

History books were being rewritten both as a reaction to the rise in minority consciousness caused by the era of Civil Rights and as a further catalyst to political activism. This volume tells a story very different from the more patriotic story 'how the...