Winter in the Blood | Biography
James Welch was born on November 18, 1940, on the Blackfeet reservation in Browning, Montana. His father, a welder, hospital administrator, and later rancher and farmer, was a Blackfeet Indian. His mother, who trained as a stenographer, was a member of the Gros Ventre tribe.
Our Lady of the Little Rockies, a familiar site in Hays, Montana, on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation © Dave G. Houser/Corbis
Welch was raised as a Catholic and attended schools on the Blackfeet and Fort...
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