Books
December, 1978
No one has yet figured out what happened to all the American Indians who used to be here. Many, of course, died of white men's diseases to which they had no resistance. The theory that the rest were deliberately massacred is popular and does have some substantiation, but somehow it presupposes a calculated effort that is distasteful to contemporary Americans. Douglas C. Jones, in his new historical novel, A Creek Called Wounded Knee (Scribner's), offers a more palatable explanation and, in the e...
