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Anderson, Ian Sitting Bull's Boss: Above the Medicine Line with James Morrow Walsh
Surrey, BC, Canada Heritage House Publishing Company, Limited 2000 1895811635 / 9781895811636 Trade paperback New
The story of Major James Walsh, 'the original Mountie,' and of Sitting Bull who fled to Canada after Little Big Horn. No Native American in U.S. history has provoked more emotion and interest than Sitting Bull. His often misunderstood role in the Battle of the Little Bighorn and his subsequent self-imposed exile have rarely been explored. The events that followed the demise of General George Custer and his 7th Cavalry when they fought Sitting Bull's warriors brought together some of the most fascinating characters of the post-Civil War frontier era. In the aftermath of battle, Sitting Bull's Sioux eluded U.S. Army commander Nelson Miles while gradually moving north to the border or 'Medicine Line' as the Sioux nation knew it. There Sitting Bull and 5,000 followers met a man wearing a red coat. He was James Morrow Walsh of the North West Mounted Police and he represented the 'Great White Mother of the North.' Walsh was the only white man Sitting Bull would ever trust. This is a story of two men and how their unlikely bond built on truth and respect would be buried by the hubris of politicians.
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Botting, Gary Chief Smallboy : In Pursuit of Freedom
Calgary, AB, Canada Fifth House Publishers 2005 1894856783 / 9781894856782 Reprint Trade Paperback New
The story of Cree Chief Bobtail Smallboy who led a group of followers from their reserve at Hobbema, Alberta to the Kootenay Plains in the Canadian Rockies where they could pursue their traditional way of life.
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Bryan, Liz Stone by Stone: Exploring Ancient Sites on the Canadian Plains
Surrey, BC, Canada Heritage House Publishing Company Ltd. 2005 1894384903 / 9781894384902 Trade Paperback New
In this unique guidebook, author Liz Bryan takes readers on a fascinating journey across the short-grass prairie in search of the region's ancient past. It belongs primarily to the First Nations, the inhabitants who occupied what is today southern Alberta and Saskatchewan for at least 12,000 years. They were nomads, anchoring their lives to the buffalo, upon which they depended for virtually everything: food, shelter, clothing and implements. Touching the land only lightly in their seasonal buffalo rounds, the First People nevertheless left signs of their passage—in enduring stone. Bryan finds settlements still marked by the circles of stone that held down the First Peoples' tipi homes, and larger circles that archaeologists call "ceremonial" for want of a proven purpose. Her journeys include buffalo jumps, vision quest sites, enigmatic cairns and medicine wheels, no two alike, and the great puzzles of the effigies, figures of men and beasts laid out on hilltops. And there are rock art sites where the ancients inscribed the pictures and symbols of their world, allowing us to see, however briefly and imperfectly, into their lives.
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Dempsey, Hugh A. Charcoal's World: The True Story of a Canadian Indian's Last Stand
Calgary, AB, Canada Fifth House Publishers 1998 1894004205 / 9781894004206 Trade Paperback New
Charcoal's world was bounded by the mountains, hills, and plains of southwestern Alberta. That was the homeland of his people, the Blood Indians, but Charcoal was not free to enjoy it as his ancestors had. For millennia, they had lived each day in the company of spirits, and even with the coming of the white man that much did not change. Major Samuel Benfield Steele of the North West Mounted Police did not know about the Indian spirit world and would not have cared to learn. In 1896 when Charcoal killed a man and made attempts on others, Steele saw him as a common murderer and vowed to chase him down. The tale of Charcoal is well known among the Indians of southern Alberta. Their stories of his exploits agree in many ways with the official reports of the North West Mounted Police, but the two sources conflict in the reasons for the success of Charcoal and his eventual downfall. Hugh A. Dempsey has spent twenty-five years researching the material on Charcoal; he has studied the government records and spoken with the elders and historians of the Blood Reserve. The result is Charcoal's World, giving us the Indian side of this remarkable story of Indian-white confrontation. Chief Curator and Curator of the Department of History of the Glenbow-Alberta Institute in Calgary and Adjunct Professor of History at the University of Calgary, Hugh A. Dempsey is the author and editor of many books and the editor of Alberta History.
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Hungry Wolf, Adolf & Beverly Indian Tribes of the Northern Rockies
Summertown, TN, USA Native Voices 1991 0-920698-11-5 / 9780920698112 Soft Cover New
The main purpose of this book is to present a volume of cultural information and historical facts about several neighbouring tribes living in and around the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia, Alberta and Montana. It is especially intended as a handy reference for younger members of those tribes, who see a lot of educational material about the rest of the world, but not so much about their own. This illustrated handbook with photographs, maps, charts and historical data, includes the following groups: Blackfoot Confederacy, (Kainah, Pikunni, Siksika), Sarcee, Stoney, Kootenay, Flathead-Salish plus Treaties. 135 pages illustrated with B&W photos.
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Jonker, Peter The Song and the Silence: Sitting Wind: The Life of Stoney Indian Chief Frank Kaquitts
Edmonton, AB, Canada Lone Pine Publishing 1988 0919433545 / 9780919433540 Trade paperback New
This is the story of Frank Kaquitts - Sitting Wind - born a Cree and raised among the Stoney in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies. He learned traditional ways from his grandmother and uncle and went on to become the first and only chief of all three Stoney bands. Taught non-native ways at residential school, he went on to become a soldier, boxer and landscape artist. He was also an actor, playing Sitting Bull opposite Paul Newman in Buffalo Bill and the Indians. This award winning biography explores cultural differences with eloquence and sensitivity. The author's warm and humourous style is as engaging as Sitting Wind's life itself.
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