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Books about Îethka people
Some of these books are all about Îethka people, and others just have sections about Îethka or maybe just parts about specific Îethka individuals. These are sources available to the public that represent Îethka stories language values or beliefs. If you have suggestions about things that should be added or removed from this list please let me know. I'll keep adding to it as I learn.
Books Written Before 1900
Saskatchewan and the Rocky Mountains; A Diary and Narrative of Travel, Sport and Adventure during a Journey through the Hudson's Bay Company's Territories in 1859 and 1860
By: James (Earl of) Southesk 1875 Available from Calgary Public Library & Amazon
The Treaties of Canada with the Indians of Manitoba and the North-West Territories including Negotiations on which they were based
By: Alexander Morris 1880 Available from Calgary Public Library & Amazon
George Millward McDougall, The Pioneer, Patriot and Missionary
By: John McDougall 1888 Available from Amazon
Canadian Savage Folk: The Native Tribes of Canada
By: John Maclean 1896 Available from Calgary Public Library & Amazon
Pathfinding on Plain and Prairie. Stirring Scenes of Life in Canadian North-West
By: John McDougall 1898 Available from Calgary Public Library & Amazon
Books Written Between 1900 - 1970
The Assiniboine
By: Robert H. Lowie 1909 Available from Calgary Public Library
Old Indian Trails of the Canadian Rockies
By: Mary T. S. Schaffer 1911 Available from Calgary Public Library & Amazon
On Western Trails in the Early Seventies: Frontier Life in the Canadian Northwest
By: John McDougall 1911 Available from Calgary Public Library & Amazon
Handbook of Indians of Canada
By: F. W. Hodge 1913 Available from Calgary Public Library & Amazon
Indian days in the Canadian Rockies
By: Marius Barbeau 1923 Available from Calgary Public Library & Amazon
The Wanderings of an Artist among the Indians of North America
By: Paul Kane 1925 Available from Calgary Public Library & Amazon
Behold the Shining Mountains: Being an Account of the Travels of Anthony Henday 1754-55: the First White Man to Enter Alberta
By: James G. MacGregor 1954 Available from Calgary Public Library & Amazon
Mission Among the Buffalo: The Labours of Reverends George M. and John C. McDougall in the Canadian Northwest 1860-1876
By: James E. Nix 1960 Available from Calgary Public Library & Amazon
The Assiniboines: From the Accounts of the Old Ones Told to First Boy (James Larpenteur Long)
By: Michael Stephen Kennedy (ed.) 1961 Available from Amazon
The Papers of the Palliser Expedition: 1857-1860
By: Irene M. Spry (ed.) 1968 Available from Calgary Public Library
Tatanga Mani: Walking Buffalo of the Stonies
By: Grant MacEwan 1969 Available from Calgary Public Library & Amazon
Books Written Between 1970 - 2000
Opening the Great West: Experience of a Missionary in 1875-76
By: John McDougall 1970 Available from Amazon
Saskatchewan Indian Heritage: The First two hundred Centuries
By: Zenon Pohorecky 1970 Available from Calgary Public Library & Amazon
Portraits from the Plains
By: Grant MacEwan 1971 Available from Calgary Public Library & Amazon
Trail Blazer of the Canadian Rockies
By: Thomas E. Wilson 1972 Available from Calgary Public Library & Amazon
Recollections of an Assiniboine Chief
By: Ochankugahe Dan Kennedy 1972 Available from Calgary Public Library & Amazon
50 Mighty Men
By: Grant MacEwan 1975 Available from Calgary Public Library & Amazon
Canmore: the Story of an Era
By: Edna Appleby, Bruce Barden Peel 1975 Available from Calgary Public Library & Amazon
Buffalo Days and Nights
By: Peter Erasmus 1976 Available from Calgary Public Library & Amazon
The Rundle Journals, 1840-1848
Edited by: Hugh A. Dempsey 1977 Available from Calgary Public Library & Amazon
Big Hill Country: Cochrane and Area
By: Cochrane and Area Historical Society 1977 Available from Calgary Public Library (rare on Amazon)
These Mountains are our Sacred Places
By: Chief John Snow 1977 Available from Calgary Public Library & Amazon
One Century Later: Western Canadian Reserve Indians Since Treaty 7
Edited by: Ian A. L. Getty, Donald B. Smith Available from Calgary Public Library & Amazon
The spirit of Alberta; an Illustrated Heritage
By: Sebastian Chumak 1978 Available from Calgary Public Library & Amazon
The Spirit of the Alberta Indian Treaties
Edited by: Richard T. Price Available from Calgary Public Library & Amazon
Diamond Hitch: The Early Outfitters and Guides of Banff and Jasper
By: Edward John Hart 1979 Available from Calgary Public Library & Amazon
Stoney Country 1970-1980: When the New and Old Sang Together
By: Warren Harbeck, Gerald Kaquitts, Tom Snow 1980 Available from Calgary Public Library & (rare find on) Amazon
The Stonies of Alberta
By: Sebastian Chumak 1983 Available from Calgary Public Library & (rare find on) Amazon
Developing the West: Essays on Canadian History in Honor of Lewis H. Thomas
Edited by: J.E. Foster 1983 Available from Calgary Public Library & Amazon
Indians in the Rockies
By: Jon Whyte 1985 Available from Calgary Public Library & Amazon
Citymakers: Calgarians after the Frontier
By: Max Foran & Shellagh Jameson 1987 Available from Calgary Public Library & Amazon
A Cultural Geography of North American Indians
Edited by: Thomas E. Ross, Tyrel G. Moore 1987 Available from Calgary Public Library & Amazon
Essays on the Historical Geography of the Canadian West
Edited by: L.A. Rosewall & S. M. Evans 1987 Available from Calgary Public Library & Amazon
The Song and the Silence Sitting Wind
By: Peter Jonker 1988 Available from Calgary Public Library & Amazon
Indian Tribes of the Northern Rockies
By: Adolf Hungry Wolf & Beverly Hungry Wolf 1989 Available from Calgary Public Library & Amazon
Heaven is Near the Rocky Mountains: the Journals and Letters of Thomas Wolsey, 1855-1869
Edited by: Hugh A. Dempsey 1989 Available from Calgary Public Library
The Feather and the Drum: The History of Banff Indian Days, 1889-1978
By: Patricia Parker 1990 Available from Calgary Public Library & Amazon
With Eagle Tail
By: Colin F. Taylor & Hugh Dempsey 1990 Available from Calgary Public Library & Amazon
Those Who Know: Profiles of Alberta's Native Elders
By: Dianne Meili 1991 Available from Calgary Public Library & Amazon
The People: A Historical Guide to the First Nations of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba
By: Donald Ward 1995 Available from Calgary Public Library & Amazon
The True Spirit and Original Intent of Treaty 7
By: Treaty 7 Elders and Tribal Council Dorothy First Rider et al. 1996 Available from Calgary Public Library & Amazon
Visions of the Heart: Canadian Aboriginal Issues
Edited by: Olive Patricia Dickason & David Long Available from Calgary Public Library & Amazon
Rediscovering the First Nations of Canada
By: John W. Friesen 1997 Available from Calgary Public Library & Amazon
First Nations of the Plains; Creative Adaptable and Enduring
By: John W. Friesen 1999 Available from Calgary Public Library & Amazon
First Nations, Second Thoughts
By: Tom Flanagan 2000 Available from Calgary Public Library & Amazon
Niddrie of the North-West: Memoirs of a Pioneer Canadian Missionary
By: John W. Niddrie Available from Calgary Public Library & Amazon
Books Written After 2000
Handbook of North American Indians: Plains (Volume 13)
By: Ian A. L. Getty & Erik D. Gooding 2001 Available from Calgary Public Library & Amazon
Around the Sacred Fire: Native Religious Activism in the Red Power Era. A Narrative Map of the Indian Ecumenical Conference.
By: James Treat 2003 Available from Calgary Public Library & Amazon
Land of Nakoda: The Story of the Assiniboine Indians
By: James Long 2004 Available from Calgary Public Library & Amazon
Behind the Man. John Laurie, Ruth Gorman, and the Indian Vote in Canada
By: Ruth Gorman 2007 Available from Calgary Public Library & Amazon
Bad Medicine: A Judge's Struggle for Justice in a First Nations Community
By: John Reilly 2010 Available from Calgary Public Library & Amazon
Bears Tracks Through Time
By: Michelle Lang 2010 Available from Calgary Public Library & Amazon
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