The Banker and The Blackfoot

The Department of Political Science presents the talk, The Banker and The Blackfoot. Ted Chamberlin was born in Vancouver, and educated at the universities of British Columbia, Oxford and Toronto. He taught at the University of Toronto since 1970, and now is University Professor of Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature; his interest in stories and songs has taken him around the world, to the hunters of the Kalahari and the herders of Mongolia as well as to the islands of the Caribbean, the England of Queen Victoria, and the wide-ranging literary and cultural traditions that have shaped the Americas. He was senior research associate with the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples and poetry editor of Saturday Night magazine, and is a fellow of the Royal Society and an officer of the Order of Canada. His latest book, The Banker and the Blackfoot, is a memoir of his grandfather who was the first mayor of Fort MacLeod, Alberta. His grandfather’s friendship with a Blood chief, Crop Eared Wolf, is a story of possibility for relations between aboriginal North Americans and settlers.

Location:

Social Sciences 729

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