book chapter

Of the Assiniboines

Five Indian tribes of the upper Missouri ; Sioux, Arickaras, Assiniboines, Crees, Crows, edited and with an introd. by John C. EwersNormanPublished In 1961 • Pages: 63-98

By: Denig, Edwin Thompson.

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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 Missouri,' which was published posthumously in 1930. He wrote this short article afterwards for the Missouri Historical Society. In the article Denig discusses the Assiniboine country, climate, major bands and their location, the chiefs Foolish Bear and Gauché, major battles, and the signing of the Fort Laramie Treaty.
SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Location
Topography and geology
Acculturation and culture contact
Annual cycle
External trade
Community heads
External relations
Warfare
cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
Assiniboine
HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
2002
RegionThe area the document pertains to
North America
Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
Plains and Plateau
Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
book chapter
Evaluation
Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
Businessperson
Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
5: Excellent Primary Data
AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
Ian Skoggard ; 2001
Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
1836-1856
Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
1776-1851
Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
Montana, United States
NotesAdditional notes
Edwin Thompson Denig
Includes bibliographical references
LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
61009005
LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
Assiniboine Indians