People of the Plains — Ken Englade

Tony Hillerman endorses this richly evocative new series that portrays the day-to-day lives of Native Americans in the west during a volatile time of betrayals great and small. The Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 called for a reallocation of tribal lands in the Plains. Anticipating that the U.S. Government would make good on its promise of hefty sums to make up for their loss of property, a number of tribes stood on the threshold of history.

- Englade is an Edgar Award-nominated author.