The Sun Came Down: The History of the World as My Blackfeet Elders Told It Comanche and that of the non-Native

and that of the non-Native oilmen

Edgar lays a foundation that not only explains the history of wealth and racism but also provides a pathway to healing that we all need

and critic John G

and how their creation resonates in Navajo culture

who offers insight into the importance of writing to the Navajo people

The Sun Came Down: The History of the World as My Blackfeet Elders Told It Comanche and that of the non-NativeAt the age of sixty seven, Percy Bullchild (1915 1986), a Blackfeet Indian from Browning, Montana, with little formal education in English, set out to put the oral traditions and history of his people into a permanent written record. He regarded this undertakingto "write the Indian version of our own true ways in our history and legends," as he puts itas both a corrective and an instructive tool. Bullchild culled this remarkable collection of