" It took me a while to settle into this book, and to figure out what kind of book it is. It's not a history, ethnography, or memoir, although it contains elements of all three. Treuer explains various aspects of life on the reservation, and uses those instances to help the reader understand the history of white-Indian relations. By shuttling back and forth, he ends up demonstrating a great deal about why and how treaty relations are so deeply flawed. Each chapter takes a facet of Indian life that may seem familiar to the white reader (e.g., casino gambling, poverty and substance abuse, boarding schools and assimilation) and takes apart the many misconceptions about those topics. I felt like I came away from the book with a much better understanding of how, for example, conflict over fishing rights can be traced back to treaty negotiations. "
— Laura, 2/7/2014