Colonialism on the prairies
Subtitle: Blackfoot settlement and cultural transformation, 1870-1920
By: Blanca Tovías
Series: First nations and the colonial encounter
Publisher: Sussex Academic Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Brighton, England; Portland, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9781845193072
Subjects: Religion; Folklore; Siksika Indians; Cultural assimilation; Clothing; Colonization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Blackfoot sun dance : resistance and persistence, 1877-1930; title: The sun dance : invoking the sacred; title: Colonial conceits and indictable offenses; title: Honouring creator sun and praying for good crops; title: The grammar of Blackfoot leadership dress, 1830-1930; title: Dress, sacred stories, and worldviews; title: Fur trade, success, and dress; title: The longevity of buckskins; title: Ethnographic encounters : cultural transactions and translations; title: Between orality and text : the encounter with "salvage" ethnography; title: Blackfoot genres into written history and literature; title: The oral tradition in contemporary native literature; title: Hero quests, sun dancing, and the story of "scarface"; title: The Blackfoot hero in James Welch's Fools crow; title: Ethics in Emma Lee Warrior's Compatriots; title: Conclusion.