455. Fall of the Sioux: The Ghost Dance (Part 2)

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Explicitly mentioned as 'perhaps the best known work of history on Native Americans' and 'D. Brown's book, which was published in 1970', discussing how the title comes from the 1927 poem by Stephen Vincent Benét

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Referred to as 'Cormac McCarthy's great novel' when discussing the destruction of the buffalo on the plains, with a passage being quoted from it describing the aftermath of buffalo hunting

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Mentioned as McLaughlin's autobiography - 'His autobiography was called My Friend the Indian' - when discussing the Indian agent who managed Sitting Bull at Standing Rock

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Referenced as 'a really detailed book about the Indian Wars' by Peter Cousins, quoted describing the Great Sioux Reservation as 'a sealed laboratory for social engineering' and later about the drought providing 'fertile ground for the new faith'

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Explicitly mentioned as 'a book called Black Elk Speaks, one of the great kind of classics of writing about Native Americans' when discussing Black Elk, who had been present at Little Bighorn as a teenager

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Referenced when discussing the story of Gall's death - 'Evan Connell reports it and he says, if true, it sounds like a Chekhov story' - indicating this comes from Connell's written work about the period