Very interesting subject matter but too reliant on supposed conversations. A little hard to follow at times because of the interspersed dialogue.

2 stars
This book needs to be edited and wrapped up better.
It just feels forced and hard to follow.

This book was a serious deep dive into four major players of the American Indian Movement (AIM) in the United States. It is obvious the author, Sharon Wyant-Leonard, spent considerable time and energy gathering oral and other first hand accounts of various AIM actions, including the Trail of Broken Treaties and their takeover of BIA headquarters in 1972.

I loved getting so many personal details about their childhoods, their personalities, and their relationships with one another. My intentions when I picked this book up were certainly met.

The only real downsides I experienced were the quality of writing (a lot of unattributed quotes in conversations with multiple speakers and disjointed, hard to follow narration) as well as glossing over or otherwise not providing clear summaries or explanations about big events that occurred throughout the book.

This book is described as providing the story of major events in the AIM movement, including the incident at Pine Ridge that led to Leonard Peltier's arrest and imprisonment, but often I found it buried the lead or assumed the reader already knew what happened and glossed over the big stuff.

I studied AIM and read about it pretty extensively in college and found myself lost at times or missing crucial pieces of the puzzle, which in turn caused me to be confused and unable to concentrate on the subsequent events in the book.

Thank you to NetGalley and Skyhorse Publishing for the opportunity to read an ARC in exchange for an honest review. I am so excited to see books by and about BIPOC available and look forward to seeing what else you have to offer.