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The Blackfeet: raiders on the Northwestern Plains
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970.3 SIKSIKA EWERS BLACKFEET
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From the Book - First edition
Preface
Dog days
The wonders of Napikwan
Big knives on the Missouri
The staff of life
Camp life
Artists and craftsmen
Raiding for horses and scalps
All in fun
The old time religion
Black Robe medicine men
Travelers far afield
Lame Bull's treaty
Life with Our Father
Massacre on the Marias
Whisky [whiskey] traders, redcoats, and the law
The tail of the last buffalo
Trading land for a living
Learning to walk alone.
Illustrations: Buffalo Bull's Back Fat, head chief of the Blood Indians
Crystal Stone, wife of Buffalo Bull's Back Fat
Eagle Ribs, a Blood warrior who claimed to have killed eight white trappers / George Catlin, 1832
Assiniboin-Cree attack on small Piegan camp outside Fort McKenzie, August 28, 1833 / Karl Bodmer
Great camp of 400 Piegan lodges near Fort McKenzie, August 31, 1833 / Karl Bodmer
Blackfoot woman with horse travois
Blackfoot woman with nose cut off in punishment for adultery
Painted lodges in the Sun Dance encampment near Browning, Montana (1942)
Stick game in progress at Sun Dance encampment near Heart Butte (1944)
Bird Rattler, Blood Indian, wearing traditional straight-up feather bonnet
Weasel Tail, Blood Indian veteran of the intertribal wars
Young man undergoing the self-torture at a Blood Indian Sun Dance / R.N. Wilson, 1892
Blackfoot medicine man attending his patient at Fort Union in 1832 / George Catlin
Albert Mad Plume, Piegan Indian, wearing "the Lord's shirt"
Two Guns White Calf, son of White Calf and a successful rancher (1923)
Curly Bear, a noted Piegan warrior (1903)
Piegan Indians hunting buffalo near the Sweet Grass Hills / John Mix Stanley, 1853
Blackfoot Treaty Council at the mouth of the Judith River (1855) / Gustavus Sohon
Medicine Snake Woman, Blood Indian, wife of the trader, Alexander Culbertson
A contemporary plan of the Blackfeet Agency on Badger Creek (1876-78)
White Calf, last head chief of the Piegans in Montana.
Maps: Fur-trading posts in the Blackfoot country, 1780-1858
Blackfoot lands in Montana, 1855-74
Blackfoot lands in Montana, 1874 to present time.
From the Book
Preface
Dog days
The wonders of Napikwan
Big knives on the Missouri
The staff of life
Camp life
Artists and craftsmen
Raiding for horses and scalps
All in fun
The old time religion
Black Robe medicine men
Travelers far afield
Lame Bull's treaty
Life with Our Father
Massacre on the Marias
Whisky [whiskey] traders, redcoats, and the law
The tail of the last buffalo
Trading land for a living
Learning to walk alone.
Illustrations: Eagle Ribs, a Blood warrior who claimed to have killed eight white trappers / George Catlin, 1832
Buffalo Bull's Back Fat, head chief of the Blood Indians
Crystal Stone, wife of Buffalo Bull's Back Fat
Assiniboin-Cree attack on small Piegan camp outside Fort McKenzie, August 28, 1833 / Karl Bodmer
Great camp of 400 Piegan lodges near Fort McKenzie, August 31, 1833 / Karl Bodmer
Blackfoot women erecting a tipi in the traditional manner
Blackfoot woman with horse travois
Blackfoot woman with nose cut off in punishment for adultery
Painted lodges in the Sun Dance encampment near Browning, Montana (1942)
Blackfoot woman with horse travois
Stick game in progress at Sun Dance encampment near Heart Butte (1944)
Young man undergoing the self-torture at a Blood Indian Sun Dance / R.N. Wilson, 1892
Blackfoot medicine man attending his patient at Fort Union in 1832 / George Catlin
Medicine Snake Woman, Blood Indian, wife of the trader, Alexander Culbertson
Blackfoot Treaty Council at the mouth of the Judith River (1855) / Gustavus Sohon
Piegan Indians hunting buffalo near the Sweet Grass Hills / John Mix Stanley, 1853
Albert Mad Plume, Piegan Indian, wearing "the Lord's shirt"
Curly Bear, a noted Piegan warrior (1903)
Two Guns White Calf, son of White Calf and a successful rancher (1923)
White Calf, last head chief of the Piegans in Montana
Bird Rattler, Blood Indian, wearing traditional straight-up feather bonnet
Weasel Tail, Blood Indian veteran of the intertribal wars
A contemporary plan of the Blackfeet Agency on Badger Creek (1876-78).
Maps: Fur-trading posts in the Blackfoot country, 1780-1858
Blackfoot lands in Montana, 1855-74
Blackfoot lands in Montana, 1874 to present time.
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9780806118369
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