The Vengeful Wife And Other Blackfoot Stories

The Vengeful Wife and Other Blackfoot Storiesby historian Hugh A. Dempsey presents tales from the Blackfoot tribe of the plains of northern Montana and southern Alberta. Drawn from Dempsey's fifty years of interviewing tribal elders and sifting through archives, the stories are about warfare, hunting, ceremonies, sexuality, the supernatural, and captivity, and they reflect the Blackfoot worldview and beliefs.

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Introduction

IX

1 The Vengeful Wife

3

(11)

2 Medicine Pipes and Fur Traders

14

(15)

3 Massacre at Sun River

29

(7)

4 The Revenge of Bull Head

36

(12)

5 They Acted Like Women

48

(15)

6 The Battle at Elkwater Lake

63

(10)

7 Ghosts

73

(19)

8 Seen From Afar

92

(23)

9 The Last Great Battle

115

(21)

10 The Prisoners

136

(21)

11 His Name Was Star Child

157

(16)

12 Harrison's Horses

173

(18)

13 Was Mary White Really White?

191

(16)

14 The Bull Elk Affair

207

(13)

15 The Rise and Fall of White Calf

220

(17)

16 Mike Running Wolf

237

(16)

Notes

253

(14)

Bibliography

267

(8)

Index

275

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The Vengeful Wife And Other Blackfoot Stories

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