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Of the Assiniboinesbook chapter 1961 • Denig, Edwin Thompson
Assiniboine • North America > Plains and Plateau
Denig traveled and lived in the Northwest as an employe of the American Fur Company (1836-1856) and wrote a fair bit on the tribes of the Upper Missouri. In 1854 he finished writing his major work, the 451-page-long 'Indian Tribes of the Upper Missou...Five Indian tribes of the upper Missouribook chapter 1961 • Denig, Edwin Thompson & Ewers, John C. (John Canfield)
Crow • North America > Plains and Plateau
This source is an early account of the Crow. The general ethnographic sketch is accompanied by a fairly lengthy biography of Chief Rotten Belly who died in 1834, and several biographical sketches of other contemporary Crow leaders of note. Valuable d...Indian tribes of the upper MissouriBook 1930 • Denig, Edwin Thompson & Hewitt, J. N. B. (John Napoleon Brinton)
Assiniboine • North America > Plains and Plateau
This monograph presents a general ethnography of traditional Assiniboine society as it existed in the mid 1850s. The author lived with the Indians for an entire year, (probably around 1854), gathering information and confirming the data obtained from...