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Author Dempsey, Hugh A. (Hugh Aylmer), 1929- author

Title The great Blackfoot treaties / Hugh A. Dempsey
Published Victoria, BC : Heritage House, [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (264 pages)
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Sihasapa Indians -- Government relations
Sihasapa Indians -- Treaties
Siksika Indians -- Government relations
Siksika Indians -- Treaties
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Sihasapa Indians
Genre/Form Electronic books
Treaties
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781772030808
1772030805
9781772030792
1772030791