In American Carnage: Wounded Knee, 1890 (University of Oklahoma Press, $24.89), Jerome A. Greene, former research historian for the National Park Service and author of numerous books about the U.S. military encounter with native peoples of the American West, turns his attention to the 1890 tragedy at Wounded Knee. His sprawling and exhaustively researched account of the slaughter on the Pine Ridge Reservation argues that much of the blame rests with the inexperienced and poorly led U.S. soldi


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