Introduction

1. The Cypress Hills and their People

The Hills

The People

2. The Buffalo and the Fur Trade

The Buffalo

The HBC and the Fur Trade to 1870

Indian Women in the Fur Trade

3. Whoop-Up Country

The American Traders

The Trading Cycle

4. The Cypress Hills Massacre

The Personalities

5. Fort Walsh and the NWMP

The Fort Established

The Life of the Mounties

6. Treaties and Reservations

The Prairies in Transition

The Downstream People and Treaty 4

Sitting Bull and the Dakota in Canada

7. The Nakoda

The Nakoda and the Hills

The Nakoda and Treaty 4

The Cypress Hills Reserve 1879-82

The Relocation of the Nakoda from the Cypress Hills

The Indian Head Reserve

8. The Modern Age

Reserve Life

The Nekaneet Band

Aboriginal Women on the Reserve

The Ranching Era

Fort Walsh National Historic Site

Notes

Bibliography

Index