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The Blackfeet (Civilization of the American Indian)

Politics & Social Sciences

EWERS, John C.

Social Sciences

University of Oklahoma Press

Journals of Zenas Leonard who wpent 4 years from 1831 to 1835 in the Rocky Mountains and accompanied Captain Walker to California through Yosemite, meeting the Spanish at Monterey and Father Junipero Serra's Missions. 
Describes Spanish and Native American encounters and customs. 
Describes Rendevous with Captain Bonneville and traders from Hudson Bay Company.

Adventures of Zenas Leonard Fur Trader

Univ. Of OK Press

The Blackfeet were the strongest military power on the northwestern plains throughout the eighteenth century. But the near extinction of buffalo in the late nineteenth century brought dire poverty to the tribe, forcing them to rely in part on the U.S. government for sustenance. In this history of the Blackfeet, historian John C. Ewers relied on his own experience living among the Blackfeet as well as archival research to tell of not only the events that have so drastically affected the Blackfeet way of life, but also the ways the Blackfeet have responded, adapting and preserving their culture in the face of a changing landscape.

The Blackfeet: Raiders on the Northwestern Plains (Volume 49) (The Civilization of the American Indian Series)

History

Americas

The Plains Indian of the Upper Missouri in the nineteenth-century buffalo days remains the widely recognized symbol of primitive man par excellence–and the persistent image of the North American Indian at his most romantic. Fifteen cultural highlights, each a chapter made from research for a particular subject and enriched by contemporary illustrations, provide a sensitive interpretation of tribes such as the Blackfeet, the Crows, and the Mandans from the decades before Lewis and Clark up to the present. In an attempt to understand and record the old culture of the Indians, the author has developed, over the past 30 years, a special ethnohistorical approach. The results, as seen here, are enlightening both for other ethnohistorians and for historians of more or less conventional bent. This book is abundantly illustrated from historical sources.

Indian Life on the Upper Missouri (Volume 89) (The Civilization of the American Indian Series)

Much of the factual information on which this study is based was supplied by elderly, fullblood Piegan and Blood Indian informants, whose knowledge of the functions of horses in the late years of buffalo days was solidly grounded in personal experiences. These old people really loved horses and enjoyed talking about them. They were uniformly cooperative and interested in getting the record straight. 
Clark Wissler (1927, p. 154) has named the period 1540 to 1880 in the history of the Indian tribes of the Great Plains "the horse culture period." This period can be defined more accurately and meaningfully in cultural than in temporal terms. Among all the tribes of the area it began much later than 1540. With some tribes it ended before 1880. Yet for each Plains Indian tribe the horse culture period spanned the years between the acquisition and first use of horses and the extermination of the economically important buffalo in the region in which that tribe lived. 
Anthropologists and historians have been intrigued by the problem of the diffusion of the European horse among the Plains Indians. It is well known that many tribes began to acquire horses before their first recorded contacts with white men. Paucity of documentation has given rise to much speculation as to the sources of the horses diffused to these tribes, the date when the first Plains Indians acquired horses, the rate of diffusion from tribe to tribe, and the conditions under which the spread took place. 
The three Blackfoot tribes of the northwestern Plains, the Piegan, Blood, and North Blackfoot, were among those tribes that possessed horses when first met by literate white men. To view their acquisition in proper historical and cultural perspective it is necessary to consider the larger problem of the diffusion of horses to the northern Plains and Plateau tribes.

The Horse in Blackfoot Indian Culture

Smithsonian Inst. Pr.

Shows examples of pipes, effigies, war clubs, bowls, spoons, and whistles, discusses themes and carving techniques, and looks at the place of these objects in the Indians' culture

Plains Indian sculpture: A traditional art from America's heartland

Smithsonian Institution Press

The Horse in Blackfoot Indian Culture: With Comparative Material from Other Western Tribes

University Press of the Pacific

The Horse In Blackfoot Indian Culture: With Comparative Material From Other Western Tribes

Excerpt from The Horse in Blackfoot Indian Culture: With Comparative Material From Other Western TribesMost of the text figures reproduced in this study are based on pencil drawings carefully prepared by Calvin Boy, a young Piegan artist. To insure their accuracy, special precautions were taken. As elderly informants described objects and/or activities I desired to have illustrated Reuben Black Boy and I made rough sketches. We showed these to Calvin Boy and explained to him the content of the desired illustrations. He then drew pictures at a very large scale so that they could be seen readily by elderly informants, many of whom had poor eyesight. The informants examined the drawings and in the presence of the artist made suggestions for any changes in detail that might be necessary. Then Calvin Boy prepared the final pencil or pen-and-ink drawings. The minority of the line illustrations were prepared by the author from his field notes and sketches.I am indebted to the following institutions for permission to repro duce photographs of objects and scenes in this bulletin: American Museum of Natural History, New York; Brooklyn Museum; Chicago Museum of Natural History; Glacier Studio, Browning, Mont. Great Northern Railway; Montana Historical Society, Helena; Museum of the Plains Indian; Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology; Smith eonian Institution: and Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.Throughout the period of this investigation (1941 - 52) I was mind ful of its broader implications. I endeavored to read widely in the scattered and largely unindexed literature on the Blackfoot and other horse-using tribes of the Great Plains and Plateau. In quest of dated materials and comparative data, I examined numerous collections of specimens in museums as well as collections of early drawings, paint ings, and photographs. I sought to obtain comparative data directly from elderly informants among the Flathead Oglala Dakota and Kiowa (1949) tribes as my limited opportunities for field work on their respective reservations permitted. Alice Marriott graciously supplied, through correspondence, information on Kiowa horse usages, obtained in the course of her own field work. Eugene Barrett, forester, Rosebud Reservation, S. Dak., kindly furnished some comparative data on Brule Dakota horse usages. Edith V. A. Murphy of Covelo, Calif, formerly field botanist, Office of Indian Affairs, sent me valuable comparative data on horse medicines.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Literature & Fiction

Literary

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Crow Indian Beadwork: A Descriptive And Historical Study

Contributions From The Museum Of The American Indian Heye Foundation, V16.

Arts & Photography

Wildschut, William

Painting

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The Blackfeet (Civilization of the American Indian)

Adventures of Zenas Leonard Fur Trader

The Blackfeet: Raiders on the Northwestern Plains (Volume 49) (The Civilization of the American Indian Series)

Indian Life on the Upper Missouri (Volume 89) (The Civilization of the American Indian Series)

The Horse in Blackfoot Indian Culture

Plains Indian sculpture: A traditional art from America's heartland

The Horse in Blackfoot Indian Culture: With Comparative Material from Other Western Tribes

The Horse In Blackfoot Indian Culture: With Comparative Material From Other Western Tribes

Crow Indian Beadwork: A Descriptive And Historical Study

The Horse In Blackfoot Indian Culture: With Comparative Material From Other Western Tribes