The Banker and the Blackfoot
A Memoir of My Grandfather in Chinook Country
In his remarkable and entertaining memoir of his beloved grandfather, Ted Chamberlin conjures up vividly the never-before-told story of a particular time and place not long after Canada was founded. And shows us not only what Canada once—briefly—was, but what it still could be.
This is the story of when “Sorreltop Jack” was friends with Crop Eared Wolf; of two decades, 1885 to 1905, when the people in the foothills of modern-day Alberta—First Nation and Métis, rancher and settler—respectfully set out to accommodate Blackfoot sovereignty and new settlement, before Canada broke its Treaty promises to the first peoples.
It was a colourful, unpredictable time. Fort Macleod was a small ramshackle town nestled in the heart of Blackfoot territory when young Jack Cowdry…
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August 30, 2016
J. EDWARD CHAMBERLIN’S renowned book If This Is Your Land, Where Are Your Stories? Finding Common Ground was a finalist for the Charles Taylor Prize and for the Pearson Writers’ Trust Award. He worked on the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry; was Senior Research Associate with the Royal Commissionon Aboriginal Peoples; has worked extensively on Aboriginal land claims in Canada, the United States, South Africa and Australia; and has lectured widely on literary, historical and cultural issues. His other books include The Harrowing of Eden: White Attitudes Towards Native Americans;Come Back To Me My Language: Poetry and the West Indies; and Horse: How the Horse Has Shaped Civilizations. He is University Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto, an Officer…
The Banker and the Blackfoot
J. Edward Chamberlin
Horse
J. Edward Chamberlin