Colonialism on the Prairies: Blackfoot Settlement and Cultural Transformation, 1870-1920

by Blanca Tovias

Book Overview

This book spans a century in the history of the Blackfoot First Nations of present-day Montana and Alberta. It maps out specific ways in which Blackfoot culture persisted amid the drastic transformations of colonisation, with its concomitant forced assimilation in both Canada and the United States. It portrays the strategies and tactics adopted by the Blackfoot in order to navigate political, cultural and social change during the hard transition from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 184519540X
• ISBN13: 9781845195403
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"