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Blackfoot Redemption: A Blood Indian's Story of Murder, Confinement, and Imperfect Justice By William E. Farr. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2012. xix + 288 pp. Photographs, map, illustrations, notes, references, index. $29.95.
The criminalization, findings of mental illness, and confinement of American Indians in the United States since the nineteenth century is a significant topic in American history in need of exposure. Many Indians found themselves incarcerated in prisons or insane asylums for opposing government interests, or as a consequence of cultural misunderstandings or outright racism. William E. Farr's work is an engrossing narrative of the life of a Blood Indian, Spopee, detained in federal prison...