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Blackfoot Redemption: A Blood Indian's Story of Murder, Confinement, and Imperfect Justice

Blackfoot Redemption: A Blood Indian's Story of Murder, Confinement, and Imperfect Justice

Farr, William E.

Paperback

Biographies GeneralCanadian HistoryNative American History

ISBN10: 0806144645
ISBN13: 9780806144641
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: Jun 13 2014
Pages: 312
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

In 1879, a Canadian Blackfoot known as Spopee, or Turtle, shot and killed a white man. Captured as a fugitive, Spopee narrowly escaped execution, instead landing in an insane asylum in Washington, D.C., where he fell silent. Spopee thus disappeared for more than thirty years, until a delegation of American Blackfeet discovered him and, aided by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, exacted a pardon from President Woodrow Wilson. After re-emerging into society like a modern-day Rip Van Winkle, Spopee spent the final year of his life on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana, in a world that had changed irrevocably from the one he had known before his confinement.

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