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The Journals of Lewis and Clark
In 1804 two men were sent on a mission by President Jefferson. The president had just completed the Louisiana Purchase which included the unexplored American west. Jefferson wrote. “An intelligent officer, with ten or twelve chosen men ... might explore the whole line, even to the Western Ocean ... The object of your mission is to explore the Missouri river, and such principal stream of it as by its course and communication with the waters of the Pacific Ocean whether the Columbia, Oregon, Colorado. The two men chosen for this mission were Lewis and Clark..
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Ledfeather
After burning up the blacktop in New Mexico with "The Fast Red Road" and rewriting Indian history on the Great Plains with "The Bird is Gone", Stephen Graham Jones now takes us to Montana Set on a Blackfeet Indian reservation, the life of one Indian boy, Doby Saxon, is laid bare through the eyes of those who witness it: his near-death experience, his suicide attempts, his brief glimpse of victory, and the unnecessary death of one of his best friends.But through Doby there emerges a connection to the past, to an Indian Agent who served the United States Government over a century before. This revelation leads to another and another until it becomes clear that the decisions of this single Indian Agent have impacted the lives of generations of Blackfeet Indians. And the life of Doby Saxon, a boy standing in the middle of the road at night, his hands balled into fists, the reservation wheeling all around him like the whole of Blackfeet history hurtling towards him.Jones' beautifully complex novel is a story of life, death, love, and the ties that bind us not only to what has been but what will be: the power of one moment, the weight of one decision, the inevitability of one outcome, and the price of one life..
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Om-Kas-Toe: Blackfeet Twin Captures an Elkdog : Autographed (Amazing Indian Children)
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Blackfeet Indian Stories
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The Old North Trail: Life, Legends, and Religion of the Blackfeet Indians
In 1886 Walter McClintock went to northwestern Montana as a member of a U.S. Forest Service expedition. He spent the next four years living on the Blackfoot Reservation, the adopted son of Chief Mad Dog, the high priest of the Sun Dance. The Old North Trail records McClintock's experiences among the Blackfeet Describing daily life, hunts, and ceremonials, it is enriched by vignettes of warriors and medicine men, legends and mythical stories, reminiscences of the missionary Father De Smet, and valuable information on such subjects as societies, proper names, songs, and beliefs. Since its first publication in 1910 it has remained the source par excellence on these proud people of the northern plains. .
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The Sun Came Down: The History of the World as My Blackfeet Elders Told It
At the age of sixty-seven, Percy Bullchild (1915–1986), a Blackfeet Indian from Browning, Montana, with little formal education in English, set out to put the oral traditions and history of his people into a permanent written record. He regarded this undertaking—to “write the Indian version of our own true ways in our history and legends,” as he puts it—as both a corrective and an instructive tool. Bullchild culled this remarkable collection of historical legends from his memory of the oral history as it was passed down to him by his elders and by seeking out the oral traditions of other tribes. These stories, like all legends, Bullchild reminds us, “may sound a little foolish, but they are very true. And they have much influence over all of the people of this world, even now as we all live.” Woody Kipp provides a preface for this Bison Books edition. .
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