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1 online resource (264 pages) |
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Treaties language |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. Tribal treaties -- 2. United States government treaties -- 3. The numbered treaties -- 4. Prelude to Treaty Seven -- 5. Treaty seven, the Blackfoot Treaty, 1877 -- 6. The aftermath -- 7. Establishing reserves -- 8. Understanding Treaty Seven -- Appendices. |
| Summary |
The expansive ancestral territory of the Blackfoot Nation ranged from the North Saskatchewan River in Alberta to the Missouri River in Montana and from the Rocky Mountains east to the Cypress Hills. This buffalo-rich land sustained the Blackfoot for generations until the arrival of whiskey traders, unscrupulous wolfers, smallpox epidemics, and the encroachment of white settlers on traditional hunting grounds. Under the terms of Treaty Seven, the Blackfoot gave up all of southern Alberta in exchange for reserves based upon five people per square mile. The Great Blackfoot Treaties examines the c. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Sihasapa Indians -- Government relations.
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Sihasapa Indians. |
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Sihasapa Indians -- Treaties.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Treaties.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Dempsey, Hugh A., 1929- Great Blackfoot treaties. Victoria, BC : Heritage House, 2015 9781772030785 (OCoLC)909326900 |
| ISBN |
9781772030808 (electronic book) |
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1772030805 (electronic book) |
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9781772030792 (electronic book) |
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1772030791 (electronic book) |
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9781772030785 (paperback) |
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1772030783 (paperback) |
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