During the last decades of the nineteenth century in the Old West, cowboys and Indians, lawmen and outlaws, ranchers and farmers shared the border between Canada and the United States--and mostly ignored it.
He lives near Vancouver..
His books include If This Is Your Land, Where Are Your Stories? Finding Common Ground
Horse: How the Horse Has Shaped Civilizations ; and Island: How Islands Transform the World .
He was Senior Research Associate with the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples in Canada, and has worked extensively on indigenous land claims in Canada, the United States, South Africa, and Australia.
Edward Chamberlin is professor emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and an Officer of the Order of Canada.
About the Author: J.
Their remarkable Story offers hope for all of us today.
Full of wisdom, passion, and insight, The Banker and the Blackfoot compellingly portrays a time when many people in that part of the Old West looked for ways of getting along with each other and getting on with the things that mattered to them all.
The town was full of great characters, including Madame Kanouse ( Natawista ), admired for both her influential intelligence and her stunning fashion sense
Kamoose Taylor, hospitable patron of the Macleod Hotel--where Francis Dickens, son of the great novelist Charles Dickens, and the Sundance Kid himself were found at the bar
Colonel James Macleod, commander of the North-West Mounted Police; the taciturn Jerry Potts, unequaled M tis guide and interpreter
John Ware, a successful black cowboy and rancher; and the renowned Peigan chief Big Swan.
Fort Macleod embraced it all--Sun Dances and social dances, bibles and medicine bundles, drums and piano recitals, horse races and polo matches, and rodeos to celebrate both the horse culture of the Blackfoot and the skills of the cattle range.
Cowdry later became the town\'s first mayor, and Crop Eared Wolf succeeded his father, the great statesman Red Crow, as head chief of the Blood tribe.
Edward Chamberlin\'s grandfather--met Crop Eared Wolf, the legendary Blackfoot warrior and brilliant horseman, and their Friendship and Trust formed a lasting bond.
It was here that the self-made Banker John Cowdry--J.
There were many friendships in this time and place, both among town residents and foothills settlers and the police, and between many of them and the Blackfoot.
The Banker and the Blackfoot conjures up vividly the never-before-told Story of Fort Macleod, the surrounding Blackfoot territory, and the foothills during roughly two decades, 1885 to 1905, when the people living there--First Nations and M tis, rancher and farmer--respectfully set out to accommodate Blackfoot sovereignty and new settlement--before the Canadian government broke its Treaty Promises to the Indians.
Bull trains regularly carried supplies from Fort Benton, on the Missouri River, across the border to Fort Macleod, a small ramshackle town in the foothills of the Rockies.
American traders and cowboys with their cattle came north to the territory that later became Alberta, and the Blackfoot traveled south to Montana to visit their kinfolk there.
During the last decades of the nineteenth century in the Old West, cowboys and Indians, lawmen and outlaws, ranchers and farmers shared the border between Canada and the United States--and mostly ignored it
