The Buffalo Hunt

Pelletier, Joanne

Regina, 1985


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Card covers, 24 pages, 7x8.5 in - 17.5x21.5 cm B&W photographs.

Condition

Cover corners lightly worn, small stain on back cover. Return mail label from previous owner adhered to title page verso.

Notes

This slim volume (part of the Gabriel Dumont Institute’s “Métis Historical Booklet” series) describes the biannual major buffalo hunts undertaken by the Red River Métis in the 18th and 19th centuries. Joanne Pelletier describes the hunt’s origination, organization, and execution, emphasizing the event’s planning, rules, and regulations, as well as buffalo’s centrality to Métis life. Excerpts from period documents and eyewitness accounts of hunts appear throughout the text, and large images visualize the events that Pelletier describes.