Inkpaduta: Dakota Leader

Leader of the Santee Sioux, Inkapduta (1815-1879) partcipated in some of the most decisive battles of the northern Great Plains, including Custer's defeat at the Little Bighorn. But the attack in 1857 on forty white settlers known as the Spirit Lake Massacre gave Inkapaduta the reputation of being the most brutal of all the Sioux leaders.

Beck is able to restore a more human dimension to Inkapaduta who was considered a villain whose passion was murdering white settlers.