Ethnology

Catlin, G. 1989

North American Indians. Originally published 1841. Edited by P. Matthiessen. Penguin Nature Library. Penguin Books, New York, USA xxxiii + 522 pp.

Dempsey, H. A. 1994

The Amazing Death of Calf Shirt and Other Blackfoot Stories. Fifth House Ltd, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada 250 pp.
AEU HSS E 99 S54 A489 1994

Dempsey, H. A. 1997

Indian Tribes of Alberta. Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta, Canada 108 pp.
AEU HSS E 78 A33 D38 Brief introduction to the main First Nations groups in Alberta, including their geographic location, lifeway and economy, and overview of their history since EuroCanadian contact. (27/Aug/2006).

Grinnell, G. B. 1962

Blackfoot Lodge Tales: The Story of a Prairie People. Originally published 1892. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA xvii + 310 pp.
AEU BARD E 98 F6 G8

McClintock, W. 1992

The Old North Trail: Life, Legends and Religion of the Blackfeet Indians. Reprinted from the original 1910 edition. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA xii + 538 pp.
AEU HSS E 99 S54 M16

Meili, D. 2006

A Remarkable Collection Coup. Legacy 11(4):14-17.
Describes the reaction of historians, Métis and First Nations people on seeing artifacts from the Earl of Southesk Collection that were puchased by the Royal Alberta Museum in 2006. The artifacts returned to Canada from Scotland. Contains great images of three of the artifacts. (06/Nov/2006).

Neihardt, J. G. 1988

Black Elk Speaks. Originally published in 1932. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA 298 pp.
AEU HSS E 99 O3 B615 A4 Black Elk was an Oglala Sioux warrior, who fought against the US cavalry in the Black Hills. He is known principally for his visions for his people. These spiritual experiences he told to Niehardt in the 1930s on the Pine Ridge Reservation when he was a very old man, looking back to the 1880s. He recounts hunting and warfare expeditions and the gradual extinction of the way of life that he had known. (06/Feb/1998).

St Pierre, M., and T. Long Soldier 1995

Walking in the Sacred Manner: Healers, Dreamers, and Pipe Carriers - Medicine Women of the Plains Indians. Touchstone Books, Simon and Schuster, New York, USA 239 pp.
Concentrates on the Lakota (Sioux) people of North Dakota and adjacent states and especially on the role of women in Native religion, spirituality, and healing. Makes the point that Judeo-Christian religion has, with its patriarchal stance, negated the role of women and hence altered the social relationships within tribal societies. The authors view the missionaries especially as oppressors. Includes some discussion on healing and the use of plants, though few (except sweetgrass and cedar) are named. (10/Apr/1997).