Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

by Dee Brown

Ten years of abuse by white men—the broken treaties, the lost hunting grounds, the unkept promises, the undelivered annuities, their hunger for food while the agency warehouses overflowed with it, the insulting words of Andrew Myrick—all rose up to put the murders of the white settlers into the background.

and many other war leaders were in the party, but the raid had been a vision