The Plot Against Native America

“Vaughn’s narrative history charts the growth and impact of Indigenous residential boarding schools in North America, offering insights into their pedagogical rationale, day-to-day operations, and enduring consequences. In illuminating detail, he covers the collaboration between government and church powers in creating the schools as well as their efforts over two centuries to evade responsibility for the myriad abuses that took place across the continent. An informed, astute, and often harrowing account of institutionalized assaults on Indigenous peoples.” – Kirkus Reviews
Praise for Bill Vaughn:

“A compelling read, spiced with arcane history and Vaughn’s own anecdotes.” * Science News *
“A fascinating exploration into how a tough, thorny tree could have so much human and personal history carved into it, from war and famine to fairy tales and founding fathers. Hawthorn tells a story as charmingly and intricately branching as its subject.” – Paul Collins, author of Murder of the Century
“Vaughn is clearly captivated by the hawthorn, both as a natural phenomenon, and as a mythic force. Call it a gentle madness if you will, but I recommend sharing it.” * Natural History *
“The book is exceedingly original and the author does an excellent job weaving together a wide range of material.” * The New York Botanical Garden *
“By looking at the family he married into and following the tendrils out from Helena to Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., and back home to Montana again, Vaughn did something new and unusual in the historical literature of Montana. A book to be admired.” * The Missoulian, Missoula, Montana *
“Tracing the history of two Montana families through four generations and showing how they came together in the third generation through marriage, Missoula author Bill Vaughn provides a story as much about Montana, its dreams, myths, and deceptions.” * Roundup Magazine *

Bill Vaughn is the author of Hawthorn from Yale University Press; The Last Heir from Bison Books; and Making Bones, a novel. A former contributing editor for Outside Magazine, he lives with his wife, dogs, and horses on the Clark Fork downstream from Missoula, Montana.

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