A surprisingly insightful review from the paper of record:

Kluger’s recitation of these events can be seen as an upbeat refusal to treat a historical tragedy as irredeemable. Usually, Indians tend to disappear from histories about them — even when the blame for their suffering is placed on others. The Nisqually, as Kluger shows, have not disappeared, and “The Bitter Waters of Medicine Creek” is an eloquent account of a massacre’s legacies as well as its ­history.