"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.
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