Jimmy Chief Interview

Date
1973-07-23
Authors
Chief, Jimmy
Mountain, Mary
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Publisher
Canadian Plains Research Centre
Abstract

The interview includes a story of the Grandson of Little Bear was was hung for his part in the Frog Lake massacre. Other stories included the tale of Chuh Chuh,a warrior who scalped a Blackfoot Chief; stories of medicine men; a gambling tale involving a Cree and Blackfoot.

Description
14 p. transcript of an interview with Jimmy Chief conducted by Mary Mountain on July 23, 1973. Tape number IH-026, transcript disc 12.
Keywords
Ceremonies -- Sundance (Cree), Chiefs and chieftainship -- Qualifications for, Clothing and personal adornment -- Pre-European, Container and utensils -- Bone, Crimes and punishments -- Hanging, Disease and illness -- Insanity, Disease and illness -- Shaman-induced, Food -- Changes in diet, Food -- Preparation of, Games -- Gambling, Horses -- Theft of, Marriage -- Courtship, Medicine men and women -- Powers of, Power -- From prayer, Spirits -- Thunderbird (Cree), Spirits -- Spirit powers, Stories and storytelling -- Courage and bravery, Stories and storytelling -- Intertribal warfare, Stories and storytelling -- Medicine men and women, Stories and storytelling -- Spirit intervention, Stories and storytelling -- Treachery and revenge, Tools -- Stone, Trade -- Goods, Trade -- Practices, Trade -- With non-Indians, Trapping, Values -- Respect, Values -- Sharing, Warfare, Intertribal -- Accounts of, Warfare, Intertribal -- Prestige in, Weapons -- Bone, Weapons -- Bow and arrow, Weapons -- Guns, Work -- Shared, Cypress Hills, Saskatchewan
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