Having been born in 1942, I watched “cowboys and Indians” on TV. My sister played cowboys and Indians with little action figures. We were raised in the Northwest Territory just beyond the Appalachian Mountains but learned little of the native Americans that populated Ohio, where I lived, and its surrounding states. I deplore the decimation of Indigenous populations around the world, not to mention the treatment of other minorities by Europeans. The hypocrisy of the whites in this book is lamentable but not limited to them. David Grann has written an important and troubling book to fill the gaps in American history. It is not intended to make white people feel guilty but to round out their knowledge of the history of America.