My Friend the Indian (Expanded, Annotated) American Classic Series #9

"If his sense of justice had led him to fine discrimination in these matters, the [Native American] would long ago have made an attack on the national Capitol."

So wrote James McLaughlin, who spent decades on the Northern Plains as an Indian agent and inspector, witnessing firsthand the final decades of Lakota independence. In My Friend the Indian (1910), he records those years in vivid, often intimate portraits of the men and women he knew—among them Sitting Bull, Gall, Rain in the Face, an...