Chief Stick was born in Butte, Montana, in 1895. In 1914 he arrived in the Bear Paw Mountains with his step-father, Little Bear, two years before Rocky Boy's Reservation was officially established. Chief Stick has lived most of his life on the Reservation where he is a respected elder and is known as a good singer and story teller. In this book, written in both Cree and English, Chief Stick tells about his early life, the traditional conflict between the Blackfeet and Crees, and the Grass Dance, one of the Crees' ancient ceremonies. He also tells about Little Bear and some of the important events in his life from the time of the so-called Riel Rebellion in 1885 to the establishment of the Rocky Boy's Reservation in 1916. Chief Stick describes a meeting between Little Bear and Secretary of the Interior Franklin K. Lane in which Little Bear asked for a permanent place for his people to settle. The book also includes a key to the Cree syllabic characters and a glossary of Cree words, arranged alphabetically according to the Cree alphabet. (Author/NQ)