A fascinating, in-depth account of the fight by Native American lawyers (the Coyote Warriors of the title) to protect Indian rights. VanDevelder writes powerfully of Martin Cross, who fought and lost a life-long campaign against a government project to build a dam on the Upper Missouri, which flooded Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara land. Nearly 50 years later, his youngest son Raymond, a professor of law at the University of Montana, convinced the government to pay the displaced people of Elbowoods for their land.  (USP26, $32.00)

Native Americans