The Song and the Silence: Sitting Wind: The Life of Stoney Indian Chief Frank Kaquitts

Peter Jonker

This is the story of Frank Kaquitts-Sitting Wind- Born a Cree and raised among the Stoney. He learned traditional Native ways from his grandmother and uncle, and went on to be the first and only chief of all three Stoney bands. Taught non-Native ways at residential school, be became a soldier, boxer and landscape painter. The fascinating, but often challenging story of Sitting Wind includes his time as an actor, when he played Sitting Bull opposite Paul Newman in ‘Buffalo Bill and the Indians,’ or ‘Sitting Bull’s History Lesson.’

This award-winning biography explores cultural differences with eloquence and sensitivity. The author’s warm and humorous style is as engaging as Sitting Wind’s life itself.

status	Copy #1 (4753): in
genre	Biography
publisher	Lone Pine
publish date	1988
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