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Article: Guns on the plains: from extraordinary Canadians: Big Bear.(Reprint)
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- Ploughshares Monitor
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- March 22, 2009
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This excerpt from Wiebe's new work on Big Bear is reprinted with the kind permission of his publisher. For analysis of the insights Wiebe brings to contemporary situations in East Africa, see the previous article by John Siebert (p. 12).
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The seasonal cycles of band hunting continued in the 1850s. Not raids, but providing food and protection for his band and growing family, were Big Bear's daily life. The tree had established their buffalo territory on the plains, and though there were still clashes with the Blackfoot Confederacy, a mutual need for less violence had Elders in both tribes advocating peace. One Cree in particular, ...