BOOKS ABOUT OR BY "BLACKFEET" THAT ARE ON MY SHELVES

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Bibliography:  Blackfoot or Blackfeet

THE BLACKFEET: AN ANNOTATED BIBILIOGRAPHY by Brian R. Johnson, 1988

EARLY BOOKS BY WHITE PEOPLE

The Journals of Lewis and Clark, ed by Bernard DeVoto, 1953

The Old North Trail, Or, Life, Legends, and Religion of the Blackfeet Indians

By Walter McClintock

University of Nebraska Press, 1999

Old Indian Trails by Walter McClintock, 1923

SOUTHWEST MUSEUM LEAFLETS

All by Walter McClintock in the Twenties

• Painted Tipis and Picture-Writing of the Blackfoot Indians”
• Blackfoot Medicine Pipe Ceremony
• Dances of the Blackfoot Indians
• The Blackfoot Beaver Bundle
• The Blackfoot Tipi
• Blackfoot Warrior Societies

Blackfoot Lodge Tales: The Story of a Prairie People                                                                

By George Bird Grinnell,  1962 (Bison Books reissue)

Blackfeet Indian Stories by George Bird Grinnell, 1926

BOOKS BY JAMES WILLARD SCHULTZ

“Tales of Life Among the Indians” by James Willard Schultz, edited by Warren L. Hanna, 1988

"Friends of My Life as an Indian" by James Willard Schultz, 1923

BOOKS BY ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Mythology of the Blackfoot Indians By Clark Wissler; D. C. Duvall, 1995.  Intro by Alice Beck Kehoe.

Material Culture of the Blackfoot Indians by Clark Wissler,  1909

“The Ghost Dance: Ethnohistory and Revitalization”, 1989

BOOKS BY JOHN C. EWERS

• THE BLACKFEET, Raiders on the Northwestern Plains by John C. Ewers, 1958
• The Horse in Blackfoot Indian Culture: With Comparative Material from Other Western Tribes”  By John C. Ewers   U.S. Government Printing Office, 1955
• “Plains Indian History and Culture: Essays on Continuity and Change” by John C. Ewers
• Blackfeet and Buffalo: Memories of Life among the Indians, by James Willard Schultz, edited by Keith Seele, 1962
• Indian Life on the Upper Missouri by John C. Ewers, 1968
• “Blackfeet Crafts” by John C. Ewers, 1945

BOOKS BY OTHER ANTHROS

"Anthropological Essays" by Oscar Lewis, 1946 to 1970  Contains two significant essays: The Effects of White Contact Upon Blackfoot Culture, 1942 and Manly-Hearted Women among the North Piegan, 1942.

"Native North American Cultures: Four Cases."  The Hano Tewa/The Kwaikiutl/The Blackfeet/The Menominee.  Edited by George and Louise Spindler.  The Blackfeet section was written by Malcolm McFee. 1972.

"Changing Configurations of the Social Organization of a Blackfoot Tribe During the Reserve Period" by Esther S. Goldfrank, 1945.  MOnographs of the American Ethnographical Society.

"Modern Blackfeet: Montanans on a Reservation" by Malcolm McFee, 2013 reissue with intro by Graybill
"Modern Blackfeet: Montanans on a Reservation", 1972

The Changing Culture of an Indian Tribe by Margaret Mead, 1932  She gave the Blackfeet a pseudonym:  “Antler.”

“The Sun Dance People” by Richard Erdoes, 1972

CONTEMPORARY WRITING ABOUT OLD TIMES

"The Red and the White: A Family Saga of the American West" by Andrew R. Graybill, 2013.  The story of the Clarke family.

"The Bear Knife and Other American Indian Tales" collected by Ruth-Inge Heinze,1994

“The Blackfeet” by Theresa Jensen Lacey, 1995  (Public school text)

"A Schoolmaster with the Blackfeet Indians" by Douglas Gold  1963

“I Will Die an Indian” An Anthology published by the Institute of the American West, a division of the Sun Valley Center for the Arts and Humanities, 1980

Reimagining Indians: Native Americans through Anglo Eyes, 1880-1940   By Sherry L. Smith   2000

Reality and Dream: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian

by George Devereaux, 1951  (Source for “Jimmy P”, the film.)

Montana 1911:  A Professor and his Wife among the Blackfeet” by Wilhelmina Maria Uhlenbeck-Melchoir (her diary) with C.C. Uhlenbeck’s Original Blackfeet Texts

The Reservation Blackfeet, 1882-1945  by William E. Farr

“Blackfoot Redemption: A Blood Indian’s Story of Murder, Confinement, and imperfect Justice.”  by William E. Farr,  2012

Mission Among the Blackfeet by Howard L. Harrod, 1971

“Rebirth of the Blackfeet Nation, 1912-1854” by Paul C. Rosier, 2001.

Mission Among the Blackfeet, by Howard L. Harrod,  1971

The Great North Trail by Dan Cushman, 1966

"Common and Contested Ground: A Human and Environmental History of the Northwestern Plains" by Theodore Binnema

"An Historical Analysis of the Administration of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation by the United States 1855-1950's"  by Michael F. Foley,  Indian Claims Commission Docket #279-D

BOOKS BY JACK HOLTERMAN

"King of the High Missouri: the Saga of the Culbertsons" by Jack Holterman, 1987
also see
"Frontier Diplomats: The Life and Times of Alexander Culbertson and Natoyist-Siksina" by Lesley Wischman, 2000

"Place Names of Glacier/Waterton National Parks," 1985

CONTEMPORARY WRITING ABOUT THE PRESENT

"Piegan" by Richard Lancaster, 1966

CANADIAN WRITING ABOUT BLACKFOOT

The Gowen Sites: Cultural Responses to Climatic Warming on the Northern Plains (7500-5000 B.P.) by Ernest G. Walker, 1992

"Blackfoot Grammar" by Donald G. Frantz, 1991

"Blackfoot Dictionary of Stems, Roots, and Affixes" by D.G. Frantz and N.J. Russell, 1989

"Sweetgrass Hills, a Natural and Cultural History"  by Johan F. Dormaar  (Occasional paper #38, Lethbridge Historical Society, PO Box 974, Lethbridge, Alberta TiJ 4A2)

"Changing Configurations of the Social Organization of a Blackfoot Tribe During the Reserve Period" by Esther S. Goldfrank, 1945.  MOnographs of the American Ethnographical Society.

BOOKS BY HUGH DEMPSEY

"With Eagle Tail: Arnold Lupson and 30 Years among the Sarcee, Blackfoot and Stoney Indians on the North American Plains" by Colin F. Taylor and Hugh Dempsey.  1999

"Firewater: The Impact of the Whisky Trade on the Blackfoot Nation",  by Hugh Dempsey,  2002

BOOKS BY ADOLF AND/OR BEVERLY HUNGRY WOLF

"Indian Tribes of the Northern Rockies", a compilation"  1989
"Children of the Sun", 1987
"Shadows of the Buffalo"
"The Ways of My Grandmothers", 1980  (Beverly)
"Daughters of the Buffalo women: Maintaining the Tribal Faith, 1996 (Beverly)
"The Blood People"
"Siksika"
"The Blackfoot People"
"Charlo's People"
"The Good Medicine Books"
   "Life in Harmony with Nature"  1970
"Pow-Wow" Vol. 1"  1983

"Siksika:  A Blackfoot Legacy"y by Ben Calf Robe with Adolf and Beverly Hungry Wolf, 1979

FICTION and memoir ABOUT BLACKFEET BY BLACKFEET or Blackfoot

"The McCluskey Boys" Adventures in an Indian Boarding School" by M. L. McCluskey, 2012

JIM WELCH

Novels

• Winter in the Blood (1974)

• The Death of Jim Loney (1979)

• Fools Crow (1986)

• The Indian Lawyer (1990)

• The Heartsong of Charging Elk (2000)

Nonfiction

• Killing Custer: The Battle of Little Bighorn and the Fate of the Plains Indians (1994)

Poetry

• Riding the Earthboy 40 (1971 rpt. 1975)

• Last Stand at Little Bighorn

• Christmas Comes to Moccasin Flat

THOMAS KING
"One Good Story, That One"  by Thomas King,  1993

WOODY KIPP

Viet Cong at Wounded Knee: The Trail of a Blackfeet Activist (American Indian Lives)  May 1, 2008

STERLING HOLY WHITE MOUNTAIN

PERCY BULL CHILD

“The Sun Comes Down

SIDNER J. LARSON

“Catch Colt”, 1995

DOROTHY STILL SMOKING

"Tribal Education: A Case Study of Blackfeet Elders: A Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Education"  Montana State University, Bozeman.  April 1997.

LOCAL BLACKFEET BOOKS AND BOOKLETS

• “The Tale Goes with the Hide:  Memoirs of a Bullshooter”  by Rod Paisley, 1980
• “Chief Mountain Tales: Stories of the Chief Mountain area” by Rod Paisley, 1993
• “Big Sky Tales: True Stories of Western History, Special People, Memories of Experiences, Special Places and Humor.” by Rod Paisley   Paisley is a descendent of Lame Bull and Major George Steell.

“Black Moccasin: Life on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation” by John Tatsey, 1971

       Tatsey was “the Law” in Heart Butte for many years.

HEART BUTTE SCHOOL BILINGUAL PROGRAM and COUNCIL FOR INDIAN EDUCATION  1984

• “The Time up in the Sky:  Poems by students of Heart Butte School” edited by Nick Fedullo
• “Famine Winter” as told by Red Eagle to James Willard Schultz
• “Running Eagle, Pi’tamaka, Woman Warrior of the Blackfeet” as told by Tail-Feathers-Coming-Over the Hill and “The Cause of Things” as told by Red Eagle, recorded by James Willard Schultz, 1996
• Warrior Expressions '97  Literary Magazine

BLACKFEET HERITAGE PROGRAM

• “Sta-ai-tsi-nix-sin: Ghost Stories”,1979
• “Napi Stories”, 1979   Darnell Davis Rides at the Door, compiler.
• “The Educational Movement of the Blackfeet Indians, 1840-1979”,  1980.  By Jackie Parsons
• “Grass Woman Stories” by Mary Ground, 1978.
• “Roaming Days: Warrior Stories” by George Comes at Night, 1978
• “Pinto Horse Rider” by Tom Many Guns, 1979.

ASSORTED

“THE LAST STRONGHOLD: Badger-Two Medicine, Sacred Land of the Grizzly, Wolf and Blackfeet Indian” by Bob Yetter

“A Worthy Work in a Needy Time:  THE MONTANA INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL FOR INDIANS”  Bond’s Mission, 1886-1897  by Margery Pease (Malay It-chey, “Good Wood”)  1986

NAPI’s LOOKOUT:  The story of Willow Rounds” 1984

"Sacred Objects and Sacred Places: Preserving Tribal Traditions" by Andrew Gulliford, 2000

SPECIALIZED

"Blackfoot Musical Thought: Comparative Perspectives" by Bruno Nettl., 1989.

"Encounters in Ethnomusicology: a Memoir" by Bruno Nettl, 2002

"Montana East of the Mountains,"  Photos by Rick and Susie Graetz, 1998.

RELIGION

"Mission Among the Blackfeet" by Howard L. Harrod,  1971

"Becoming and Remaining a People" by Howard L. Harrod, 1995

"The Animals Came Dancing:  Native American Sacred Ecology and Animal Kinship" by Howard L. Harrod, 2000

"The Spiritual Legacy of the American Indian" by Joseph Epes Brown, 1982

"The Gospel of the Redman: A Way of Life" by Ernest Thompson Seton and Julia M. Seton, 1966

"Red Man's Religion" by Ruth M. Underhill, 1965.

"Beyond the Primitive: the Religions of Nonliterate Peoples" by Sam D. Gill, 1982.

"Native American Religions: An Introduction" by Sam D. Gill, 1982  (The Religious Life of Man Series)

"Native American Religions: An Introduction"  by Denise Lardner Carmody and John Tully Carmody, 1993

"The Sacred Tree: Reflections on Native American Spirituality,"  collaboratively written, 1984


FUR TRADE AND METIS/RED RIVER

"Strange Empire" by Joseph Kinsey Howard, 1952, 1994.  (Latter with an intro by Nicholas C. P. Vrooman.

"Louis Riel and Gabriel Dumont" by Joseph Boyden, 2010.  

"Many Tender Ties: Women in Fur-Trade Society, 1670-1870" by Sylvia Van Kirk. 1980.

"Scottish Highlanders, Indian Peoples: Thirty Generations of a Montana Family" by James Hunter, 1996,

"Children of the Fur Trade: Forgotten Métis of the Pacific Northwest," by John C. Jackson, 1996.