Murdering indians: a documentary history of the 1897 killings that inspired Louise Erdrich's "The Plague of Doves"
"In 1897 a family of six was murdered in rural North Dakota. Several Dakota Indians from Standing Rock reservation were arrested, tried, pronounced guilty, and sentenced to hanged. This work gathers together many documents, including the transcript of the trial, along with the author's commentary, telling a disturbing tale of racism and revenge in the pioneer West"--