Stone Song was lauded as the only significant work of fiction on the Lakota Sioux since Hanta Yo by Library Journal. It won the Spur Award for Best Novel of the West, and the Mountain and Plains Booksellers Award for Best Fiction. Crazy Horse led his people to their greatest victory, the Battle of the Little Big Horn, where General Custer fell. Crazy Horse managed to find his way in harmony with the age-old wisdom of the Lakotaand to beat the US Army on its own terms.