More newcomers came here so they knew they werent going to have that but they kept asking for a reserved area that would be theirs where they could live in peace. Thats where the term reservation comes from. Its a reserved area of their own land where they could live in safety and that is what he was hoping for and what he worked for and did not come about anything chief lefthand was published by the university of Oklahoma Press in 1981. It has never gone out of print. I think its time is gone by and more and more people have gotten interested in lefthand wanting to know about his life what happened to him that is just driven the interest in my book. So when i wrote the book i became obsessed with this topic. I wanted to know who these people were who had lived on the plains before my family came out here and im a fourthgeneration colorado so i wanted to know who were the people that were here before and how did they lift and what became of them . Then i found chief lefthand was fluent