"It's impossible to stop reading [Mean's] gripping autobiography . . . Few readers will leave the book without feeling profoundly altered by the authenticity of Mean's story. It's American history–warts, wounds, and all." –San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
"Mean's tale gives one a visceral understanding of today's Indians, their ancestors, and the many betrayals they have suffered." –
Chicago Tribune "Not since war chiefs such as Geronimo or Crazy Horse has an Indian leader so polarized the American public as Russell Means." –
Dallas Morning News "One of the biggest, baddest, meanest, angriest, most famous American Indian activists of the late twentieth century." –
The Washington Post