Book
Charcoal's world
Western Producer Prairie Books • Saskatoon • Published In 1978 • Pages:
By: Dempsey, Hugh Aylmer.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a moving biographical narrative of Charcoal, a Blood Indian, as told to Hugh Dempsey by native American informants in conjunction with the data obtained from the Public Archives of Canada and the Horace Harvey Papers (MG-30). The document describes Charcoal's killing of his wife's lover, his flight from the reservation, the relentless pursuit of the fugitive by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police under the leadership of Major Samuel B. Steele, the many hardships encountered by Charcoal in the Canadian wilderness, the killing of one of the pursuing police officers by Charcoal, and his eventual capture (as the result of the betrayal of his brothers), trial, and execution. Since the Royal Canadian Mounted Police at the time of the events described here were responsible for keeping law and order on the reservation data relevant to their policing action in the pursuit and capture of Charcoal has been indexed for category 657.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Life history materials
- Public welfare
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Blackfoot
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1999
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Plains and Plateau
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Historian
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1997
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1850s-1907
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Blood Indians, southern Alberta, Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- Hugh A. Dempsey
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-173) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 79317645
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Siksika Indians