Charlie Eagletooth's War by John Templeton

Paperback. Condition: Good. 1969. Curtis Books. 1st printing.

When Charlie Porter (Eagletooth) and his savvy squaw, Peggy, graduate from University of California and return to the Zapi reservation, they find that the Federal Government has reneged on its promise to build the Coyote Canyon Dam. Charlie Eagletooth persuades the Zapi Council to stage an all-out protest. Hostilities begin with eighty painted warriors riding down a Government surveying crew. This incident leads to a major military confrontation and a crisis of international proportions.