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Rosalyn R. LaPier is an associate professor in the¿Environmental Studies Program at the University of Montana and a research associate at the National Museum of Natural History.¿She is the coauthor, with David R. M. Beck, of City Indian:¿Native American Activism in Chicago, 1893–1934 (Nebraska, 2015).
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List of contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Something Vital Was Missing
1. No Nothing: The Blackfeet Reservation in 1910
2. Invisible Reality: The Blackfeet Universe
3. Visible Reality: The Saokiotapi
4. Closed Season: The Blackfeet Winter
5. Opened Season: The Blackfeet Summer
6. Storytakers: Ethnographers Visit the Blackfeet
7. All That Remain: From the Prairies to the Atomic Age
Epilogue: And the Dogs Have Separated
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Rosalyn R. LaPier is an associate professor in the environmental studies program at the University of Montana and a research associate at the National Museum of Natural History. She is the coauthor, with David R. M. Beck, of City Indian: Native American Activism in Chicago, 1893–1934 (Nebraska, 2015), winner of the 2016 Robert G. Athearn Award from the Western History Association.
Summary
Presents a creative and innovative history that blends extensive archival research, vignettes of family stories, and traditional knowledge learned from elders along with personal reflections on her own journey learning Blackfeet stories. The result is a nuanced look at the history of the Blackfeet and their relationship with the natural world.
