| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.1

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The Piikani Blackfeet: A Culture under Siege. By John C. Jackson. (Missoula: Mountain, 2000. xii, 275 pp. Cloth, $30.00, ISBN 0-87842-385-0. Paper, $18.00, ISBN 0-87842-386-9.)

The Peigan Blackfeet are known to western historians as fierce Plains warriors who blocked plateau tribes from buffalo herds and from traders who would sell them guns. In this book, John C. Jackson portrays them as peacemakers goaded to war by the marauding Salish and by horse thievery. The Piikani, Muddy River Indians, or Peigans are one of three groups of Blackfeet—Siksika, Kainaa, and Piikani—who ranged along the east slopes of the continental divide from the Red Deer River to the springs of the Missouri. . . .

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