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History and identification of Blood bandsessay 1982 • Dempsey, Hugh Aylmer
Blackfoot • North America > Plains and Plateau
In this article Dempsey identifies the various Blood bands and their chiefs, emphasizing the fluidity both of band identity and composition prior to reservation settlement. The closing remarks on reservation community dynamics add considerably to Dem...Social dances of the Blood Indians of Alberta, Canadaarticle 1956 • Dempsey, Hugh Aylmer
Blackfoot • North America > Plains and Plateau
This article is concerned with social dancing and singing ceremonies ca. 1950 among the Blackfoot. They were considered as expressions of rivalries between age-group societies, and as exemplifying 'the new and the old in the gradual assimilation of t...The Blackfoot Indiansbook chapter 1986 • Dempsey, Hugh Aylmer
Blackfoot • North America > Plains and Plateau
This document presents a summary sketch of Blackfoot ethnography dating from pre-contact days (ca. 1600s) to the 1970s. The work provides information on the environment and economy, social and political organization, religion, the Sun Dance ceremonia...Charcoal's worldBook 1978 • Dempsey, Hugh Aylmer
Blackfoot • North America > Plains and Plateau
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 des...