As with hypnotic suggestions, the subtle ones have greater power than the more obvious directives. Ultimately, the book's best-selling status reflects the success of what contemporary Lakotas refer to as the "Dances with Wolves" approach to the continued demeaning of Native Peoples, an approach that prioritizes Euro-centric people and values and ignores or dismisses the present by romanticizing or distorting the past. To do so, the authors have missed the mark on more things in one book than in any single anti-Indian text I have