Blackfoot Redemption is the riveting account of Spopee's unusual and haunting story. To reconstruct the events of Spopee's life--at first traceable only through bits and pieces of information--William E. Farr conducted exhaustive archival research, digging deeply into government documents and institutional reports to build a coherent and accurate narrative and, through this reconstruction, win back one Indian's life and identity.
In revealing both certainties and ambiguities in Spopee's story, Farr relates a larger story about racial dynamics and prejudice, while poignantly evoking the turbulent final days of the buffalo-hunting Indians before their confinement, loss of freedom, and confusion that came with the wrenching transition to reservation life.
Find out more about William Farr, and hear him talk about Spopee, his arrest and trial, his 34 years of silence, and his presidential pardon during this week's program, on the radio or online.
- Thursday, February 14 at 7:30 p.m. on Montana Public Radio
- Thursday, February 14 at 6:30 p.m. on Yellowstone Public Radio
- Sunday, February 17 at 6 p.m. on Spokane Public Radio
- On demand audio
- MTPR podcast
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