Author: Vella Munn
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1466827149
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Winter is coming, but the Blackfeet have not yet begun the journey to their southern hunting grounds, stalled while Chief Sleeps Too long and the shaman, Bunch of Lodges argue whether spirituality or a warrior's wisdom is the best was to guide the tribe. White Calf, a young woman of great spiritual power, dreams that the buffalo have wandered far from their usual grazing lands and that the Blackfeet must quickly mount a hunt of risk winter starvation. While White Calf chooses to marry one of the shaman's sons, political rivalry becomes outright war. The tribe splits in two as the chief's faction heads for warmer lands, while Bunch of Lodges leads his people on an ill-fated buffalo hunt. Painfully aware that only unity will allow the tribe to survive the harsh winter their dreams have foretold, the shaman's sons and White Calf struggle through an unending blizzard to rejoin their people. Their only guide is a spirit wolf who seems both a menace and protector.
Blackfeet Season
Author: Vella Munn
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1466827149
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Winter is coming, but the Blackfeet have not yet begun the journey to their southern hunting grounds, stalled while Chief Sleeps Too long and the shaman, Bunch of Lodges argue whether spirituality or a warrior's wisdom is the best was to guide the tribe. White Calf, a young woman of great spiritual power, dreams that the buffalo have wandered far from their usual grazing lands and that the Blackfeet must quickly mount a hunt of risk winter starvation. While White Calf chooses to marry one of the shaman's sons, political rivalry becomes outright war. The tribe splits in two as the chief's faction heads for warmer lands, while Bunch of Lodges leads his people on an ill-fated buffalo hunt. Painfully aware that only unity will allow the tribe to survive the harsh winter their dreams have foretold, the shaman's sons and White Calf struggle through an unending blizzard to rejoin their people. Their only guide is a spirit wolf who seems both a menace and protector.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1466827149
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Winter is coming, but the Blackfeet have not yet begun the journey to their southern hunting grounds, stalled while Chief Sleeps Too long and the shaman, Bunch of Lodges argue whether spirituality or a warrior's wisdom is the best was to guide the tribe. White Calf, a young woman of great spiritual power, dreams that the buffalo have wandered far from their usual grazing lands and that the Blackfeet must quickly mount a hunt of risk winter starvation. While White Calf chooses to marry one of the shaman's sons, political rivalry becomes outright war. The tribe splits in two as the chief's faction heads for warmer lands, while Bunch of Lodges leads his people on an ill-fated buffalo hunt. Painfully aware that only unity will allow the tribe to survive the harsh winter their dreams have foretold, the shaman's sons and White Calf struggle through an unending blizzard to rejoin their people. Their only guide is a spirit wolf who seems both a menace and protector.
Rebirth of the Blackfeet Nation, 1912-1954
Author: Paul C. Rosier
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803290044
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Presents the political and economic history of the Blackfeet Nation in Montana focusing on how the Indian Reorganization Act and the Indian New Deal affected the Nation from 1912 to 1954.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803290044
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Presents the political and economic history of the Blackfeet Nation in Montana focusing on how the Indian Reorganization Act and the Indian New Deal affected the Nation from 1912 to 1954.
Mission Among the Blackfeet
Author: Howard L. Harrod
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806131535
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
As the once vital world of the Blackfoot Indians crumbled in the face of advancing white civilization, shrinking buffalo herds, and the ravages of smallpox, yet another blow was struck at its social and religious foundations with the arrival of the Christian missionaries, both Protestant and Catholic. In this book the author recounts the history of the missions and their impact on the Blackfeet, from their founding in the 1840's to the present day. He has drawn upon much previously unpublished material to recapture the tribe's proud and tragic moments, the sometimes equally tragic fate of the missionaries, and the effects of shifting governmental and denominational policies upon both groups.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806131535
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
As the once vital world of the Blackfoot Indians crumbled in the face of advancing white civilization, shrinking buffalo herds, and the ravages of smallpox, yet another blow was struck at its social and religious foundations with the arrival of the Christian missionaries, both Protestant and Catholic. In this book the author recounts the history of the missions and their impact on the Blackfeet, from their founding in the 1840's to the present day. He has drawn upon much previously unpublished material to recapture the tribe's proud and tragic moments, the sometimes equally tragic fate of the missionaries, and the effects of shifting governmental and denominational policies upon both groups.
Blackfeet and Buffalo
Author: James Willard Schultz
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806117003
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Memories of life among the Indians, ed. and with an introduction by K. C. Seele.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806117003
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Memories of life among the Indians, ed. and with an introduction by K. C. Seele.
Invisible Reality
Author: Rosalyn R. LaPier
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496202384
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Rosalyn R. LaPier demonstrates that Blackfeet history is incomplete without an understanding of the Blackfeet people's relationship and mode of interaction with the "invisible reality" of the supernatural world. Religious beliefs provided the Blackfeet with continuity through privations and changing times. The stories they passed to new generations and outsiders reveal the fundamental philosophy of Blackfeet existence namely, the belief that they could alter, change, or control nature to suit their needs and that they were able to do so with the assistance of supernatural allies. The Blackfeet did not believe they had to adapt to nature. They made nature adapt. Their relationship with the supernatural provided the Blackfeet with stability and made predictable the seeming unpredictability of the natural world in which they lived. In Invisible Reality Rosalyn LaPier presents an unconventional, creative, and innovative history that blends extensive archival research, vignettes of family stories, and traditional knowledge learned from elders along with personal reflections on her own journey learning Blackfeet stories. The result is a nuanced look at the history of the Blackfeet and their relationship with the natural world.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496202384
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Rosalyn R. LaPier demonstrates that Blackfeet history is incomplete without an understanding of the Blackfeet people's relationship and mode of interaction with the "invisible reality" of the supernatural world. Religious beliefs provided the Blackfeet with continuity through privations and changing times. The stories they passed to new generations and outsiders reveal the fundamental philosophy of Blackfeet existence namely, the belief that they could alter, change, or control nature to suit their needs and that they were able to do so with the assistance of supernatural allies. The Blackfeet did not believe they had to adapt to nature. They made nature adapt. Their relationship with the supernatural provided the Blackfeet with stability and made predictable the seeming unpredictability of the natural world in which they lived. In Invisible Reality Rosalyn LaPier presents an unconventional, creative, and innovative history that blends extensive archival research, vignettes of family stories, and traditional knowledge learned from elders along with personal reflections on her own journey learning Blackfeet stories. The result is a nuanced look at the history of the Blackfeet and their relationship with the natural world.
The Blackfeet
Author: John C. Ewers
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806170956
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
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.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806170956
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
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.
Modern Blackfeet
Author: Malcolm McFee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Ten-year study of the modern Blackfeet Indian reservation community of Montana.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Ten-year study of the modern Blackfeet Indian reservation community of Montana.
Blackfoot Ways of Knowing
Author: Betty Bastien
Publisher: University of Calgary Press
ISBN: 1552381099
Category : Knowledge, Theory of
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Blackfoot Ways of Knowing is a journey into the heart and soul of Blackfoot culture. In sharing her personal story of "coming home" to reclaim her identity within that culture, Betty Bastien offers us a gateway into traditional Blackfoot ways of understanding and experiencing the world.
Publisher: University of Calgary Press
ISBN: 1552381099
Category : Knowledge, Theory of
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Blackfoot Ways of Knowing is a journey into the heart and soul of Blackfoot culture. In sharing her personal story of "coming home" to reclaim her identity within that culture, Betty Bastien offers us a gateway into traditional Blackfoot ways of understanding and experiencing the world.
Invisible Reality
Author: Rosalyn R. LaPier
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496201507
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
-Invisible Reality presents a vital look at Blackfeet history and the traditional belief that Blackfeet made nature adapt to them.---Provided by publisher.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496201507
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
-Invisible Reality presents a vital look at Blackfeet history and the traditional belief that Blackfeet made nature adapt to them.---Provided by publisher.
The Sun Dance of the Blackfoot Indians
Author: Clark Wissler
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 95
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Sun Dance of the Blackfoot Indians" by Clark Wissler. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 95
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Sun Dance of the Blackfoot Indians" by Clark Wissler. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.