Cree -- Social life and customs, Cree -- Saskatchewan -- Folklore, Cree -- Folklore, Indigenous peoples -- Saskatchewan -- Folklore, Indigenous peoples -- Legends, Cree -- Saskatchewan, Cree, Saskatchewan, Plains Cree, Edward Ahenakew, Chief Thunderchild, Treaty No. 6 (1876 August 23), Plains Cree -- Social life and customs, Plains Cree -- Folklore, nêhiyaw -- Social life and customs, nêhiyaw -- Traditional teachings, nêhiyaw 

"When buffalo were many on the western Plains, when Cree and Blackfoot warred in unrelenting enmity, when the Sun Dance and the shaking tent were still a way of life - these were the days of Chief Thunderchild, who roamed the Saskatchewan Plains, fought and hunted, lived and sometimes nearly starved there. His stories of a fierce and vanished freedom are reprinted here, exactly as he told them to Edward Ahenakew in 1923. His voice, simple and poetic, resonates with something of the wide expanse of sky, the song of the wind, the sound of water. Chief Thunderchild was born in 1849 and died in 1927, four years after recounting his tales to Edward Ahenakew.

The other voice in this volume is equally moving, but in a very different way. It is the voice of Old Keyam, pained and angry, raised in protest against the Indian's lethargy and the white man's insensitivity. A fictional character, semi-autobiographical, he is very much the voice of Edward Ahenakew, telling of life on the reservations in the new white world of the early twentieth century. Precursor of later, more vehement voices, Old Keyam presents and examines the Indian's predicament, conveying the tragic image of caged and broken spirits.

The Canadian Plains Research Center is proud to present this new edition of Voices of the Plains Cree, first published by McClelland and Stewart in 1973."--Back cover. 

xxii, 130 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. 

Contents:
Publisher's preface
Foreword
Introduction to the 1995 edition
Introduction to the 1973 edition
Introduction to Part I
Part I: The stories of Chief Thunderchild
1. A winter of hardship
2. Indian laws
3. Revenge against the Blackfoot
4. Thunderchild takes his first horses from the Blackfoot
5. It is Pu-chi-to now who tells his story
6. Thunderchild takes part in a dangerous game
7. Encounter with the Blackfoot in the Eagle Hills
8. A fight with the Sarcee
9. A story of friendship
10. Truce making and truce breaking
11. Buffalo pounds
12. The buffalo chase
13. The grizzly bear
14. Walking Wind tells his story of the grizzly
15. Thunderchild's adventure with the bears
16. The foot-race
17. A faithless woman
18. The first man
19. The sun dance
20. The thirst dance
Thunderchild's conclusion
Introduction to Part II
Part II: Old Keyam
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Notes relating to the 1973 introduction
Notes relating to Part I: The stories of Chief Thunderchild
Notes relating to Part II: Old Keyam
Appendix: Account of the signing of Treaty Number Six
The treaty at Forts Carlton and Pitt, Number Six
Bibliography.

Notes:
Originally published: Toronto : McClelland & Stewart, 1973. With new preface, foreword, and introduction.