When accountability is lost and blame is always outward and never inward.

The story is told through multiple backgrounds and lenses of those who lived through the experience. As the author is telling the story of the Minnesota conflict – the reader continues to be updated with other tasks pulling on President Lincoln at the time.

While being told to give up their ways and to assimilate – many did that. Starving, not having what was promised – a spark develops when a few young warriors decisions ignited the next great US conflict which still plagues the US this day.

As the listener engages in the story they can see how perceptions and misunderstandings continued to escalate the conflict. As the war rages on, one can see the continual conflict Little Crow faces as he becomes a leader for a movement he didn’t necessarily agree with how it was unfolding.