THE BANKER AND THE BLACKFOOT tells the colorful and compelling story of a real Western town in the foothills of the Rockies in the late 1800s and highlights the unusual friendships and trust that developed there between Indians and newcomers--before the government broke its Treaty promises to the first peoples.

J. 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. 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. 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 lives near Vancouver.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction: Jack Cowdry and Crop Eared Wolf

Chapter 1: Fort Macleod

Chapter 2: On the Banks of the Old Man's River

Chapter 3: An Unusual Banker

Chapter 4: When the Police Came

Chapter 5: The Aristocrats of the Plains

Chapter 6: Treaty Seven

Chapter 7: The Roundup

Chapter 8: The Uprising

Chapter 9: Settling into the Foothills

Chapter 10: Chinook Country

Chapter 11: Homeland and Frontier

Chapter 12: The Blackfoot Quirt

Chapter 13: "How Can We Sing Our Creator's Song in a Strange Land?"

Chapter 14: When Crop Eared Wolf Became Chief of the Bloods

Chapter 15: For Sale: Cowdry Brothers Bank-Not for Sale: Land on the Blood Reserve

Chapter 16: Farewell

Acknowledgements

Sources and Endnotes

Index