The Amazing Death of Calf Shirt: And Other Blackfoot Stories Paperback - 1996
by Hugh A. Dempsey
From the rear cover
The result of more than forty years of research, The Amazing Death of Calf Shirt and Other Blackfoot Stories is a unique oral history spanning three hundred years of the Blackfoot people. Dating back as far as 1690, the stories collected here by Hugh Dempsey tell of renowned Blackfoot warriors such as Calf Shirt and Low Horn, of those who tried to adapt to a changing world, and of others who rebelled against the government's attempts to control their lives. These stories are factual, based on extensive interviews with Blackfoot elders as well as research into government documents, accounts of early travelers, and records kept by missionaries, Indian Department officials, and the Mounted Police. Once free and independent buffalo hunters, the members of the Blackfoot Nation - the Blood, Blackfoot, and Peigan - were forced onto reserves in the 1880s. These stories portray the problems and traumas accompanying those changes: the clash of Native and white cultures and the hardships the Blackfoot endured through years of poverty on their new reserves. The elders' tales are reminiscences on buffalo hunts, exciting raids on enemy camps, and the freedom of wandering the prairies. Good and evil spirits being an everyday reality of Blackfoot life, the stories also explore the supernatural.
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- Title The Amazing Death of Calf Shirt: And Other Blackfoot Stories
- Author Hugh A. Dempsey
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Second Impressio
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Oklahoma Press, Norman
- Date 1996-03-15
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
- ISBN 9780806128214 / 0806128216
- Weight 0.93 lbs (0.42 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6.06 x 0.7 in (22.86 x 15.39 x 1.78 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Pacific Northwest
- Ethnic Orientation: Native American
- Geographic Orientation: Montana
- Library of Congress subjects Siksika Indians - History, Piegan Indians - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95038302
- Dewey Decimal Code 970.004
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