| Book Review | Western Historical Quarterly, 32.1

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Book Review

The Piikani Blackfeet: A Culture under Siege. By John C. Jackson. (Missoula: Mountain Press Publishing, 2000. xi + 276 pp. Illustrations, maps, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index. $30.00, cloth; $18.00, paper.)

This book's main title refers to one of the three "related but distinct groups" that became known as the Blackfoot or Blackfeet (p. x). Jackson places the Piikani in detailed geographic, historic, and social contexts that include people from many other cultural backgrounds. The "siege" refers to outside influences; it began with the affect horses had on traditional practices in the mid-eighteenth century. The beaver trade, the trade in buffalo robes and the people (Indian and non-Indian) and practices that this commerce introduced were also part of "the siege." Trappers, missionaries, explorers, and diseases like smallpox all played a role in the many cultural changes. Jackson also considers the roles of the people themselves in the siege. He contends that "by participating in the robe trade, the tribes were cooperating in the destruction of their way of life" although the extent of choice is unclear (p. 186). By the late 1800s, the Piikani population and culture were greatly changed. . . .

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