Colonialism on the Prairies: Blackfoot Settlement and Cultural Transformation, 1870-1920 (First Nations and the Colonial Encounter)

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Colonialism at the Prairies spans a century in the history of the Blackfoot First Nations of present-day Montana and Alberta. Now to be had in paperback, the book maps out specific ways in which Blackfoot culture persisted amid the drastic transformations of colonization, with its concomitant forced assimilation in both the US and Canada. It portrays the strategies and tactics adopted by the Blackfoot with a view to navigate political, cultural, and social change all through the hard transition from traditional lifeways to life at the reserves and reservations. Cultural continuity is the thread that binds the book’s four case studies, encompassing Blackfoot sacred beliefs and ritual, dress practices, the transmission of knowledge, and the relationship between oral stories and up to date fiction. Blackfoot voices emerge forcefully from an extensive array of number one and secondary sources, resulting in an inclusive history wherein both Blackfoot and non-Blackfoot scholarship enter into dialogue. Colonialism at the Prairies combines historical research with literary criticism, a strategy that may be justified by the interrelationship between Blackfoot history and the stories from their oral tradition. Chapters are devoted to examining cultural continuity, discussing the ways in which oral stories continue to inspire up to date Native American fiction. This interdisciplinary study is a party of Blackfoot culture and knowledge that seeks to revaluate the past by documenting Blackfoot resistance and persistence across a wide spectrum of cultural practice. The book is very important reading for all scholars working in the fields of Native American studies, colonial and postcolonial history, ethnology, and literature. (Series: A Sussex Library of Study – First Nations and the Colonial Encounter)

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