The result of more than 40 years of research, "The Amazing Death
of Calf Shirt and Other Blackfoot Stories" is a unique oral history
spanning three hundred years of the Blackfoot people. Dating back
as far as 1690, the stories collected here by Hugh Dempsey tell of
renowned Blackfoot warriors such as Calf Shirt and Low Horn, of
those who tried to adapt to a changing world, and of others who
rebelled against the government's attempts to control their lives.
These stories are factual, based on extensive interviews with
Blackfoot elders as well as research into government documents,
accounts of early travelers, and records kept by missionaries,
Indian Department officials, and the Mounted Police.
Once free and independent buffalo hunters, the members of the
Blackfoot Nation-the Blood, Blackfoot, and Peigan-were forced onto
reserves in the 1880s. These stories portray the problems and
traumas accompanying those changes: the clash of Native and white
cultures and the hardships the Blackfoot endured through years of
poverty on their new reserves. The elders' tales are reminiscences
on buffalo hunts, exciting raids on enemy camps, and the freedom of
wandering the prairies. Good and evil spirits being an everyday
reality of Blackfoot life, the stories also explore the
supernatural.
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