Charcoal's World The True Story of a Canadian Indian's Last Stand Tapa blanda - 1979

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Saskatoon: Western Producer Prairie Books [1-894004-20-5] 1998. (Mass market paperback) 181pp. Very good. Illus., maps. Slightly warped. "A classic example of Indian-white confrontation where the clash of two cultures is the result of neither completely understanding the other."..

Calgary, Alberta, Canada: Fifth House Publishers, 1998. ....Large soft cover, x + 181 pages, with 9 pages of b & w photos including frontis, with map, tight clean and square, flat uncreased spine, no names. "Born the son of a great Blackfoot leader, Charcoal and his beliefs had no place in a world recently transformed by white man's rules. Clinging to his people's traditions, he came into conflict with the new laws of the land and became a wanted outlaw. Charcoal's strruggle is emblematic of a larger struggle between the conflicting values and cultures of turn-of-the-century Canada and a relationship between white men and Natives fraught with mistrust and misunderstanding." Any image direclty beside this listing is the actual book and not a stock photo!. First Fifth House Edition 1st Printing. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Fifth House Publishers, 1979. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Kissou=Daylight" written on flypage otherwise unmarked.Paperback. Book Condition: Very Good. Book Description Born the son of a great Blackfoot leader, Charcoal's world was bounded by the mountains, hills, and plains of southwestern Alberta. That was the homeland of his people, the Blood Indians, but Charcoal was not free to enjoy it as his ancestors had. For millennia, they had lived each day in the company of spirits, and even with the coming of the white man that much did not change. Charcoal's killing of his wife's lover may be a crime by western and modern standards, but for the people of his time it was a way of "saving face," and upholding the laws that governed his people. Major Samuel Benfield Steele of the North West Mounted Police did not know about the Indian spirit world and would not have cared to learn. Steele saw him as a common murderer and vowed to chase him… Leer más

Calgary: Fifth House, 1998. First edition. paperback. very good/no dustjacket. 8vo. pp.181

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