Blood Brothers: Montana Territory 1860 - 1890

By Lenore McKelvey Puhek and McKelvey Puhek, Lenore

Book Overview

Blood Brothers: This novel, based on an old Indian story, was told to me many years ago. It is about a drop of blood from a very small cut on two boys wrists; One Blackfoot, one white, bonding them forever as blood brothers. Bear Chief: Great chief of the Blackfoot Nation pushed by Union Army stationed at Fort Shaw to a reservation near the "backbone" today known as Glacier Park. Flower Woman: Wife of Bear Chief. Her still-born baby is secretly replaced by a newborn white man's child. The infant found barely alive had been shielded by his dead mother. Indian boys, passing by, find the dead woman; take the baby to Bear Chief. Little Bear: Grows up in the Blackfoot tradition; at age fifteen he stumbles upon a piece of calico cloth and discovers his true identity. He is united with his biological father. Retired Commander of Ft. Shaw: Indians call him Old Man Who Lives in a Cave. Blackrobes at St. Peter's Mission: Priests educate Little Bear; aka Thomas Jerome. He graduates from Carlisle Indian School; moves to Washington; now a lawyer; he works on Original Government Peace Treaties with the Native Americans. Eagle Feather: Speaks white man's tongue learned from Mountain Men; reads and writes the white man scratches on paper; his past also has a secret.

A fine thread weaves smoothly through the pages, revealing ceremonial Vision

Quests and traditional Native American ways.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1955177961
• ISBN13: 9781955177962
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: Primix Publishing
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"