Ronald D. Parks engaging account, The Darkest Period: The Kanza Indians and Their Last Homeland, 1846-1873 (University of Oklahoma Press, $34.95) tells a familiar story of a tribe struggling to withstand destructive and inconsistent federal policies. Being compelled to accept a reservation, soon to be diminished, that was crossed by the Santa Fe Trail, plagued by white squatters and encompassed by the boomtown of Council Grove, intensified the assault on Kanza lands, culture and livelihood. T
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