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Chapters alternate between the lives of Sitting Bull, the Sioux chief who resisted assimilation into Anglo culture, and James McLaughlin, the agent at Standing Rock Reservation charged with effecting that assimilation. The parallel structure, supported by considerable documented detail, illuminates the irreconcilable cultural differences that led to Sitting Bull's murder by Indian police answering to McLaughlin. Ind.