Table of Contents
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