inaccuate information and damaging stereotypes
It's an old saw that writers should write about what they know. There are so many inaccuracies in this book, particularly regarding Native American culture and history, perhaps Eidison should turn his considerable talents to other subject matter. For example, he writes about Zuni Hogans. The Zuni, a Puebloan people, have never used hogans, which are a structure unique to the Dineh, or Navajo, people in the Southwest. In 1885, when the Army had standing orders to shoot any Apache, man woman or child, off the reservation on sight, it is unconceivable that a group of Apache warriors would encumber themselves with a group of captive white women on a journey of several hundred miles through territory full of U.S. Army forts and hostile Hispanic settlements. This book adds to a plethora of damaging misinformation about Native Peoples. Is it any wonder that the suicide rate among Indian teenage males is 300% greater than the rest of this nation?