The Sun Came Down: The History of the World as My Blackfeet Elders Told It

by Percy Bullchild

At the age of sixty-seven, Percy Bullchild (1915-1986), a Blackfeet Indian from Browning, Montana, with little formal education in English, set out to put the oral traditions and history of his people into a permanent written record. He regarded this undertaking--to "write the Indian version of our own true ways in our history and legends," as he puts it--as both a corrective and an instructive tool. Bullchild culled this remarkable collection of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803262507
• ISBN13: 9780803262508
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Bison Books
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 8.9"