This book is about the declining Lower Brule Sioux community, whose efforts at maintaining peace have resulted in their being ignored by scholars, neglected by the public, and mistreated by the government. The author traces the history of this tribe which now occupies a small reservation on the Missouri River in South Dakota. The book concentrates on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and on the real hardships the Lower Brule endured in spite of or because of their efforts to cooperate with the federal government.--Provided by publisher.