The American Indian Quarterly, January 1st, 2005
Hugh A. Dempsey. The Vengeful Wife and Other Blackfoot Stories. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003. 282 pp. Cloth, $34.95.
A tribute to the oral tradition as history, these Blackfoot stories are remarkably well preserved and documented by Hugh Dempsey. A scholar of the Nista'api, real people, commonly referred to as the Blackfoot Indian Confederacy, Dempsey is without peer. His attention to oral histories and a wealth of scholarly literature is unprecedented in depth and detail. Attending a rich array of archival sources and oral histories, The Vengeful Wife, is Indian history as it...
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