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The Sun god's childrenBook 1930 • Schultz, James Willard & Donaldson, Jessie Louise
Blackfoot • North America > Plains and Plateau
This work is a traditional ethnography of the Blackfoot Indians in the days when buffalo (bison) roamed the plains (ca. 1700s-1870s). The document discusses the early fur trade period, foods , food preparation and preservation, folk tales and mytholo...The Beaver dance and adoption ceremony of the Crow Indiansessay 1979 • Big Man, Max et al.
Crow • North America > Plains and Plateau
This article is a thorough, detailed account of the Beaver Dance and related ceremonies observed by the author, a Crow chief, in 1926....