Spotted Tail's Folk: A History of the Brule Sioux - Native American Tribal History Book for Cultural Studies & Historical Research

The story of Spotted Tail and his people is the story of the deadly game of resistance and subjugation. The government expected the Sioux to live on a reservation, to farm the land, raise cattle, send their children to school, and adopt Christianity - all at once. Spotted Tail understood that the Brules could not be turned into imitation whites overnight, and he fought to protect his people from being rushed into the white man's ways by government agents and eastern "Friends of the Indians.".