Book
An inquiry into the political and economic structures of the Alexis Band of Wood Stoney Indians, 1880-1964
University Microfilms Inc. • Ann Arbor, Mich. • Published In 2000 • Pages:
By: Andersen, Raoul Randall.
Abstract
This is a dissertation on the Alexis Band of the Stoney Indians in Alberta, based on fieldwork carried out over three summers, 1964-1966. Andersen discusses and compares the political, social, and economic structure of the Alexis society in the Pre-Reserve period prior to 1877, the period of Government Trusteeship (1877-1957), and the more recent period of Band Council Leadership. Leadership gradually changed hands from the elder camp leaders to young bilingual members of the Band Council. Also the key social unit changed from a camp group to nuclear family. In the middle period, the government failed in their attempt to change the Alexis subsistence base from hunter-gatherers to farmers and ranchers. Education, medical care, and wage labor have favored a more settled existence, especially among the young and old. Andersen also discusses the Alexis relations with the surrounding white communities.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2002
- Region
- North America
- Sub Region
- Plains and Plateau
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Ian Skoggard ; 2000
- Field Date
- 1964-1966
- Coverage Date
- 1778-1964
- Coverage Place
- Alberta, Canada
- Notes
- Raoul Randall Andersen
- UM 68-12,480
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-269)
- Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Missouri, Columbia, 1968
- LCSH
- Assiniboine Indians