Download or read book Chief Smallboy written by Gary Botting and published by Fifth House Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Gary Botting combines traditional research methods with Native oral history to record the story of Cree Chief Bobtail Smallboy. This Hobbema, Alberta, chief, frustrated with the Canadian government's unwillingness to help him secure more land for his people, led a group of followers to settle in Alberta's Kootenay Plains. Botting weaves the intimate stories of Smallboy's ancestors into the fabric of "known" Canadian and American history to record the compelling story of the visionary chief. In doing so, Botting has made the life of this man and his forebears tactile, adding a third dimension to the history of the Cree people, their leaders, and their treatment in the hands of government."-- Back cover.