Includes bibliography, folio of Sioux designs

"The Blackfeet were the strongest military power on the Northwestern plains in the historic buffalo days. For half a century up to 1805, they were almost constantly at war with the Shoshonis and came very close to exterminating that tribe. They aggressively asserted themselves against the Flatheads and the Kutenais, shoving them westward across the Rockies"--Cover.