Killing Custer is acclaimed novelist James Welch's first nonfiction work, a poignant and highly personal resurrection of the Indian side of the story from beneath a mountain of myth and insinterpretation. Working from the vast research he and director Paul Stekler undertook for their script for the American Experience documentary "Last Stand at Little Bighorn", Welch relates the pride and desperation of a people systematically stripped of their treaty rights, hounded from their ancestral hunting grounds, herded into wretched reservations.