In 1909 Dixon gathered chiefs from reservations across the United States for a council in Montana, recording their speeches, folk tales and memories of buffalo hunts, warfare and treaty days, together with the accounts of surviving Crow scouts from the Little Bighorn. His elegiac framing assumes the Indian peoples were disappearing, an assumption of its time.
A valuable record of Native voices and photographs, read today with awareness of its romantic premise. Download the free EPUB.