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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 PeopleThe Hills
The People
2. The Buffalo and the Fur TradeThe Buffalo
The HBC and the Fur Trade to 1870
Indian Women in the Fur Trade
3. Whoop-Up CountryThe American Traders
The Trading Cycle
4. The Cypress Hills MassacreThe Personalities
5. Fort Walsh and the NWMPThe Fort Established
The Life of the Mounties
6. Treaties and ReservationsThe Prairies in Transition
The Downstream People and Treaty 4
Sitting Bull and the Dakota in Canada
7. The NakodaThe 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 AgeReserve 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.