Blackfoot Redemption
Authors: William E. Farr
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-09-28 - Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
In 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