Download or read book The Blackfeet Raiders on the Northwestern Plains written by John Canfield Ewers and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1958 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Blackfeet were the strongest military power on the northwestern plains in the historic buffalo days. For half a century up to 1805, they were almost constantly at war with the Shoshonis and came very close to exterminating that tribe. They aggressively asserted themselves against the Flatheads and the Kutenais, shoving them westward across the Rockies. They got on fairly well with English and Canadian traders during the heyday of the fur trade on the Saskatchewan River, but on the upper Missouri they took an early dislike to Americans, whom they called "Big Knives." American fur traders, such as Manuel Lisa, Pierre Menard, and Andrew Henry, were literally chased out of Montana by the Blackfeet.
Download or read book The Blackfeet written by John C. Ewers and published by . This book was released on 195? with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Story of the Blackfeet written by John Canfield Ewers and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Story of the Blackfeet written by John Canfield Ewers and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Blackfeet written by Bob Scriver and published by Lowell Press (OR). This book was released on 1990 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description: Bob Scriver is a man of great and varied accomplishments. Among his many accomplishments, he is a collector and preserver of a large segment of Blackfeet Indian materials culture. Philip H.R. Stepney, Director of the Provincial Museum of Alberta, states that the Scriver Collection is "one of the finest collections of historic Blackfoot materials." Scriver's collection contains over 1,500 individual pieces.
Download or read book Plains Indian History and Culture written by John Canfield Ewers and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plains Indian History and Culture, an engaging collection of articles and essays, reflects John C. Ewers multifaceted approach to Indian history, an approach that combines his far-reaching interest in American history generally, his professional training in anthropology, and his many decades of experience as a field-worker and museum curator. The author has drawn on interviews collected during a quarter-century of fieldwork with Indian elders, who in recalling their own experiences during the buffalo days, revealed unique insights into Plains Indian life. Ewers use his expertise in examining Indian-made artifacts and drawings as well as photographs taken by non-Indian artists who had firsthand contact with Indians. He throws new light on important changes in Plains Indian culture, on the history of intertribal relations, and on Indian relation with whites—traders, missionaries, soldiers, settlers, and the U.S. Government.
Download or read book The Blackfeet Raiders Nomads of the North written by Robert D. Bolen and published by Fort Boise Publishing. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My Life As an Indian written by J. W. Schultz and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-03 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A rip-roaring yarn and a dazzling glimpse into a vanished past." -- The New York Times In the year 1880, James Willard Schultz left the comfort of his home in St. Louis, bound for adventure in the Far West. Fired by the writings of Lewis and Clark's Journal, The Oregon Trail, Fremont's expeditions, Schultz travelled across the breadth of the American continent to see some of the land and the tribes of which they told. As a young tenderfoot, Schultz quickly found his feet and before long he was under the tutelage of the experienced trapper, Berry, who introduced him to a tribe of Piegan Blackfeet. For the next few years, Schultz immersed himself in the ways of these Native Americans, assisting his friends in fighting rivals, hunting alongside them and even marrying Nat-ah'-ki, a Blackfoot woman. As George Bird Grinnell states, "It is an animated and vivid picture of Indian life. The scene is on the plains in the old days, in the picturesque period when the tribe lived in a primitive way, subsisting on the buffalo and at war with hostile neighbours." My Life as an Indian is essential reading for anyone interested in Native American culture as it depicts vividly how they lived and survived at a moment in history when their way of life was severely under threat. "James Willard Schultz was a master of storytelling in the Indian manner." --John C. Ewers, author of The Blackfeet: Raiders on the Northwestern Plains "A sensation-creating volume." -- St. Petersburg Times James Willard Schultz was given the name Apikuni, meaning Spotted Robe, by the chief, Running Crane. He was an early settler in the Montana region and wrote widely on Blood, Cree and Blackfeet Indians during the latter half of the nineteenth century. He published this book at the age of forty eight in 1907 and died in 1947.
Download or read book The Old North Trail Or Life Legends and Religion of the Blackfeet Indians written by Walter McClintock and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1999-09-01 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1886 Walter McClintock went to northwestern Montana as a member of a U.S. Forest Service expedition. He was adopted as a son by Chief Mad Dog, the high priest of the Sun Dance, and spent the next four years living on the Blackfoot Reservation. The Old North Trail, originally published in 1910, is a record of his experiences among the Blackfeet.
Download or read book The Sun God s Children written by James Willard Schultz and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Blackfeet were people of the buffalo. They originated on the plains of today’s southern Alberta, western Saskatchewan, and central Montana. In the 1830s famed artist and explorer George Catlin called the Blackfeet “the most powerful tribe of Indians on the continent.” Fur trader, hunting guide, and later, acclaimed chronicler of Native American culture, James Willard Schultz lived with the Blackfeet for many years from the 1870s to the 1930s. The tribe named him “Apikuni” (Spotted Robe). Schultz said the purpose of writing this book was “to integrate the activities of the life of the Blackfeet tribes, in the days of the buffalo, and including certain of their ceremonials of the present time.” The Sun God’s Children describes the Blackfeet as they lived before the coming of the fur traders and their customs, traditions, and religious beliefs, as told to Schultz by the Blackfeet themselves.
Download or read book Blackfeet Indian Stories written by George Bird Grinnell and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 1993 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of Blackfeet Indian stories, handed down from ancient times, about hunting, travel, and everyday Indian life.
Download or read book Blackfeet Tales of Glacier National Park written by James Willard Schultz and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-28 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book of stories collected from the Blackfeet Tribe from the Glacier National Park written by a man who had married a Blackfeet, lived among the people from the tribe for many years, and was considered one of them. It gives many places names in Glacier, such as just who was Running Eagle or Pitamakin, familiar to all people who visited this wonderful area. These stories are captured from oral Blackfoot tradition and tell about ancient indigenous cultures, which carry their outstanding actions to our times.
Download or read book The Old North Trail written by Walter McClintock and published by London : Macmillan. This book was released on 1910 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Native American Tribes written by Charles River Charles River Editors and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-03-22 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the Blackfeet written by contemporaries *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents From the "Trail of Tears" to Wounded Knee and Little Bighorn, the narrative of American history is incomplete without the inclusion of the Native Americans that lived on the continent before European settlers arrived in the 16th and 17th centuries. Since the first contact between natives and settlers, tribes like the Sioux, Cherokee, and Navajo have both fascinated and perplexed outsiders with their history, language, and culture. In Charles River Editors' Native American Tribes series, readers can get caught up to speed on the history and culture of North America's most famous native tribes in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. They call themselves "Niitsitapi" ("Original People"), but in the United States, they are known as the Blackfeet. In Canada, they are known by their more particular band names, one of which is Blackfoot, but regardless of the name, they are a tribe of Native American peoples ("First Nations" in Canada) who, until the modern time period, lived in small, decentralized bands and hunted the bison on the northern Great Plains. Stories vary, but the name "Blackfeet" or "Blackfoot," applied to them by others, may have come originally from their practice of dying their moccasin soles black. That said, their use of an Algonquian language group may indicate that they were relatively recent newcomers to the region from somewhere in the Northeast. The territory of the Blackfeet, at its greatest extent, encompassed a vast area from the eastern Rocky Mountains of Alberta and Montana and extending several hundred miles out onto the Great Plains, around the upper reaches of the Saskatchewan River and its tributaries in Alberta and the upper reaches of the Missouri River and its tributaries in Montana. The area of the land most sacred to the Blackfeet is the Sweet Grass Hills, which are located just south of the Canadian border in the central part of Montana. These are a group of buttes forested with balsam firs rising several thousand feet above the surrounding plains and which can be seen for a considerable distance. This was also Napi's favorite resting place in the mythology of the Blackfeet. Young Blackfeet went up into the Hills on their vision quests and, as their predecessors had done for several thousands of years, left inscriptions and petroglyphs on the surface of the tall sandstone cliffs. Many of the stories told by the Blackfeet take place there. Native American Tribes: The History and Culture of the Blackfeet and Blackfoot Confederacy comprehensively covers the history and legacy of one of the Great Plains' most famous Native American groups. Along with pictures and a bibliography, you will learn about the Blackfeet like never before, in no time at all.
Download or read book Shared Symbols Contested Meanings written by Loretta Fowler and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fort Belknap reservation in Montana is home to both the Gros Ventre and Assiniboine Indian tribes. The two thousand inhabitants of the reservation recognize an array of symbols—political, ritual, and sacred—which have meaning and emotional impact for all; yet there is sharp disagreement between the two tribes and among the various age groups about the interpretation of these symbols. Anthropologist Loretta Fowler here examines the history and culture of the Gros Ventres over two centuries, seeking to discover why the residents of Fort Belknap ascribe different and often opposing meanings to their shared cultural symbols and how these differences have influenced Gros Ventre identity.
Download or read book Anthropological Papers written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book One Vast Winter Count written by Colin G. Calloway and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A professor of history offers a sweeping new history of the Native American West from the earliest arrival of ancient peoples to the early nineteenth century, before the Lewis and Clarke expedition opened it to exploration, focusing particular attention on the period of conflict that preceded this period. Reprint.
