Legends of Our Times

by Baillargeon, Morgan; Tepper, Leslie Heyman

• ISBN13: 9780774806565
• ISBN10: 0774806567
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-05-01
• Publisher: Univ of British Columbia Pr

Author Biography

Morgan Baillargeon is a Metis from southwestern Ontario and Curator of Plains Ethnology at the Canadian Museum of Civilization. Leslie Tepper is Curator of Plateau Ethnology at the Canadian Museum of Civilization and the author of several publications, among them Earth Line and Morning Star, a study of clothing from the Plateau.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. viii
Native Cowboy Life	p. 2
Sacred Beings	p. 18
The First Horses	p. 51
Painted Pony	p. 55
Ayahkwew's Lodge	p. 59
Buffalo Woman Leads the Buffalo out of the Earth	p. 61
Coyote and Buffalo	p. 63
The End of the World: The Buffalo Go	p. 69
The Deer	p. 71
Coyote and Wood Tick	p. 73
Coyote	p. 74
Man's Best Friend	p. 75
The Dog Chief	p. 77
Ranching Life	p. 82
Lonely Cowboy	p. 115
Allen Sapp	p. 116
Tried, True, and Tested	p. 122
At Wood Mountain We Are Still Lakota	p. 125
Women and the Ranching Life	p. 135
Rodeo and Other Entertainment	p. 152
The Gambler's Son and Star Man	p. 205
Bronco Busters, Basket Makers, and a Brass Band	p. 207
The Menace of the Wild West Show	p. 211
Remembering Heroes	p. 213
He's an Indian Cowboy in the Rodeo	p. 217
On the champ of '63	p. 219
Indian Rodeo Cowboys of the Dakotas	p. 221
Down the Road ...	p. 243
References	p. 244
Credits	p. 246
Index	p. 249
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