I just finished my second book for the reading challenge: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown, which is both "a history of a resistance movement" and "a history that's been sitting on your shelf for too long" (my mother-in-law bought it for me for Christmas about 10 years ago). Having already read Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's An Indigenous People's History of the United States, a lot of this a lot of this material was already familiar to me, but Brown's choice of events to focus on meant that I still ended up learning new things from this book.

While I admit to not knowing enough about the subject to recognize any faults in Brown's research, I did find one aspect the writing of the book that displeased me: It seemed that as the book progressed, moving closer to the present day, the coverage of material accelerated, as if Brown was starting with a preset limited page count and, having written the first part of the book, was scrambling to include all the material he wanted to before reaching that page limit. The result of this is that the Ghost Dance and Wounded Knee, which I would have expected to be fairly significant parts of the book, are covered in 12 pages immediately before the book ends. 

And when I say the book "ends," I am choosing that word very deliberately. The book just stops at the end of the day of the Wounded Knee Massacre, when the wounded survivors were carried into the church at the Episcopal mission at the Pine Ridge Agency. There is no conclusion, no examination of the reactions to the massacre, nothing. If you removed the table of contents and the back matter, which make it clear that this is the end of the book, and had a group of students read it, they would come back asking you for the rest of the book.