Jemmy Jock Bird: Marginal Man on the Blackfoot Frontier
E-Books
Author/Creator
John C. Jackson
Lists all 73 volumes edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites, with subject descriptions and links to full text in the Internet Archive.
Consists of an interview with Joe Sylvester where he gives an account of Indian medicine; legends concerning migration of Algonquin Indians; the role of elders; of the deterioration of reservation conditions following World War II; the religious significance of the number "four"; views on welfare and its role in disrupting traditional Indian values; and a legend about the origin of the drum.
Author chronicles the life of the first Native American woman to be declared blessed by the Roman Catholic church.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.34.