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The Cypress Hills - An Island by Itself

English · Paperback / Softback

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Building on the success of their earlier work, The Cypress Hills: The Land and its People, Hildebrandt and Hubner revisit the hills and bring new and updated material to this book.

List of contents










Introduction
1. The Cypress Hills and their People
The Hills
The People
2. The Buffalo and the Fur Trade
The Buffalo
The HBC and the Fur Trade to 1870
Indian Women in the Fur Trade
3. Whoop-Up Country
The American Traders
The Trading Cycle
4. The Cypress Hills Massacre
The Personalities
5. Fort Walsh and the NWMP
The Fort Established
The Life of the Mounties
6. Treaties and Reservations
The Prairies in Transition
The Downstream People and Treaty 4
Sitting Bull and the Dakota in Canada
7. The Nakoda
The Nakoda and the Hills
The Nakoda and Treaty 4
The Cypress Hills Reserve 1879-82
The Relocation of the Nakoda from the Cypress Hills
The Indian Head Reserve
8. The Modern Age
Reserve Life
The Nekaneet Band
Aboriginal Women on the Reserve
The Ranching Era
Fort Walsh National Historic Site
Notes
Bibliography
Index


About the author










Walter Hildebrandt is known as both a poet and historian. A consultant on Aboriginal treaties, he is co-author of The True Spirit and Original Intent of Treaty 7, which won the Gustavus Myers Award for outstanding work on intolerance in North America in 1997. He is the author of Views From Battleford: Constructed Visions of an Anglo-Canadian West, and The Battle of Batoche: British Small Warfare and the Entrenched Métis.
Brian Hubner has published numerous articles and book reviews, as well as being co-author of two editions of a book of the history and people of the Cypress Hills; The Cypress Hills: The Land and its People (1994) and Cypress Hills: An Island by Itself (2007).


Summary

Building on the success of their earlier work, The Cypress Hills: The Land and its People, Hildebrandt and Hubner revisit the hills and bring new and updated material to this book.

Product details

Authors Walter Hildebrandt, Brian Hubner
Publisher Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 01.05.2007
 
EAN 9781895830309
ISBN 978-1-895830-30-9
No. of pages 184
Dimensions 152 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
Weight 272 g
Subjects Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories
Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous

Kanada, Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte, Amerikanische Geschichte, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte

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