Dee Brown

Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is told through two unique perspectives: Charles Eastman, a young, white-educated Sioux doctor held up as living proof of the alleged success of assimilation, and Sitting Bull the proud Lakota chief whose tribe won the American Indians’ last major victory at Little Big Horn.

In the heart of the American South, a city steeped in history finds itself at the epicenter of a modern crisis. Jackson, Mississippi – a community where echoes of the civil rights movement still resonate – faces a struggle not just for justice, but for the most basic necessity of life: water.