Some of this book is out of date - most of it is not. Vine Deloria Jr., through a combination of scathing criticism and howling humor, will make you consider the ways American Indians are excluded, punished, and overridden for the simple crime of refusing to disappear from the world. I learned things about tribes I had lived near for years, completely oblivious to the injustices they had been dealt by the United States government in just the past century. Everyone should read this.