{"product_id":"blackfoot-redemption-william-e-farr-9780806144641","title":"Blackfoot Redemption: A Blood Indian's Story of Murder, Confinement, and Imperfect Justice","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1879, a Canadian Blackfoot known as Spopee, or Turtle, shot and killed a white man. Captured as a fugitive, Spopee narrowly escaped execution, instead landing in an insane asylum in Washington, D.C., where he fell silent. Spopee thus \"disappeared\" for more than thirty years, until a delegation of American Blackfeet discovered him and, aided by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, exacted a pardon from President Woodrow Wilson. After re-emerging into society like a modern-day Rip Van Winkle, Spopee spent the final year of his life on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana, in a world that had changed irrevocably from the one he had known before his confinement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlackfoot Redemption\u003c\/i\u003e is the riveting account of Spopee's unusual and haunting story. To reconstruct the events of Spopee's life--at first traceable only through bits and pieces of information--William E. Farr conducted exhaustive archival research, digging deeply into government documents and institutional reports to build a coherent and accurate narrative and, through this reconstruction, win back one Indian's life and identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn revealing both certainties and ambiguities in Spopee's story, Farr relates a larger story about racial dynamics and prejudice, while poignantly evoking the turbulent final days of the buffalo-hunting Indians before their confinement, loss of freedom, and confusion that came with the wrenching transition to reservation life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e William E. Farr\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0806144645\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780806144641\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Oklahoma Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/13\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.97lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d","brand":"William E. Farr","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44043051467007,"sku":"9780806144641","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_839cb426-83b0-4047-b3fc-9f9d7ae4c806.jpg?v=1684964986","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/blackfoot-redemption-william-e-farr-9780806144641","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}