Robert J. Conley was a Cherokee author and enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation, a federally recognized tribe of American Indians. In 2007, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas.
This true story will break your heart with all the confrontation between the army and Indians. Such a horrible piece of our history when both sides murdered each other for no good reason. I lived on the Ute indian reservation for 20 years and found the people fun and pleasent.