Though confined to the great Dakota reservation in 1878, the Sioux did not end their struggle with the white intruders until well into the 20th century. Throughout the last decades of the 19th century, the Sioux, finding themselves united for the first time in their history, waged a cold war with the United States Department of the Interior, the Indian Bureau, the various Indian agents sent to supervise Sioux Reservation life, and the so-called Indian Friends of the East, who sought to school and church the Sioux into submission. This book presents the stories of the brave Chief Spotted Tail, the courageous and unethical Red Cloud, the ghost dance, the Messiah craze, the disaster at Wounded Knee, and of other frontier persons and events.