The Last Sovereigns2021 Spur Award Winner for Best Historical Nonfiction from the Western Writers of America True West Magazine's 2020 Best Author and Historical Nonfiction Book of the Year The Last Sovereigns is the story of how Sioux chief Sitting Bull resisted the white mans ways as a last best hope for the survival of an indigenous way of life on the Great Plainsa nomadic life based on buffalo and indigenous plants scattered across the Siouxs historical territories