When I spoke to the Blackfoot people assembled at Sikapii's home, you felt as if this treaty was signed last week since the pain was so palpable. They spoke uniformly about the cannons lined up near ...

The Cree, the Ojibways, the Saulteus, the Assiniboines and the Blackfoot lived ... Plains Indians had limited contact with the white man before the mid-1800s. The Canadian west had already been ...

A Blackfoot chief named Crowfoot had fought many battles. But alcoholism among his people in the late 1800s was an enemy ... "(E)very Indian was given a dram of fire water, by way of a starter.

The Blackfoot ... by the end of the 1800s. Columbus Delano, President Ulysses S. Grant's secretary of the interior, believed that the loss of the animal would "confine the Indians to smaller ...

The Blackfoot people have had a sacred bond with buffalos ... until those numbers fell to less than a thousand by the end of the 1800s. Columbus Delano, President Ulysses S. Grant's secretary of the ...