
Frontier Diplomats
Alexander Culbertson and Natoyist-Siksina Among the Blackfeet
Lesley Wischmann(Author)
University of Oklahoma Press
Published on 30. April 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
400 pages
978-0-8061-3607-3 (ISBN)
Description
This dual biography highlights the human dimensions of the Upper Missouri fur trade. Focusing on two major figures, Alexander Culbertson (1809-1879), trader with the American Fur Company, founder of Fort Benton, and the first white American to live among the Blackfeet Indians, and his wife, Natoyist-Siksina' (""Holy Snake"") (1825-1893), daughter of Two Suns, the chief of the Blood (Kainah) tribe, Lesley Wischmann shows the great influence this couple had on the region. Culbertson and Natoyist-Siksina' worked together for thirty years to promote cooperative relations between Native inhabitants and newly arrived white adventurers and played key roles in the Fort Laramie Treaty Conference of 1851 and treaty negotiations with the Blackfeet tribes in 1855. As she tells the story of these ""frontier diplomats,"" Wischmann also challenges conventional wisdom about the character of fur traders, the nature of the Blackfeet, and the role of Indian women.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oklahoma
United States
Illustrations
22 black & white illustrations, 1 map
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
653 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8061-3607-3 (9780806136073)
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Person
Lesley Wischmann is a freelance writer specializing in western history and a lecturer for the Wyoming Humanities Council Speakers Bureau. He is also the author of Frontier Diplomats: Alexander Culbertson and Natoyist-Siksina' among the Blackfeet