Research Catalog

Title

The vengeful wife and other Blackfoot stories / Hugh A. Dempsey.

Author

Dempsey, Hugh A. (Hugh Aylmer), 1929-

Publication

Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c2003.

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Details

Description

xiii, 282 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Summary

"The Vengeful Wife and Other Blackfoot Stories by historian Hugh Dempsey presents tales of the Blackfoot tribe on the plains of northern Montana and southern Alberta. The result of fifty years of interviewing tribal elders and sifting through archives, these stories are about warfare, hunting, ceremonies, sexuality, the supernatural, and captivity and reflect Indian viewpoints and beliefs. Previously unpublished stories about great leaders such as Seen From Afar, Bull Head, and White Calf chronicle the Blackfoot reservation years, brushes with the law, and the challenges of adapting to a new way of life." "Preserved in this compilation of oral history and accounts from government officials, travelers, and fur traders are stories dating from the late 1700s to the early 1900s."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Siksika Indians > History
• Piegan Indians > History
• Kainah Indians > History
• Oral tradition > Alberta
• Oral tradition > Montana
• Tales > Alberta
• Tales > Montana
• Alberta > History
• Montana > History

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-274) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The vengeful wife -- Medicine pipes and fur traders -- Massacre at Sun River -- The revenge of Bull Head -- They acted like women -- The battle at Elkwater Lake -- Ghosts -- Seen from afar -- The last great battle -- The prisoners -- His name was star child -- Harrison's horses -- Was Mary White really white? -- The Bull Elk affair -- The rise and fall of white calf -- Mike running wolf.

ISBN

0806135506 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2002043178

OCLC

51041779

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library