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The Fort Belknap Assiniboine of Montana

[s.n.]PhiladelphiaPublished In 1938 • Pages:

By: Rodnick, David, United States. Bureau Of Indian Affairs.

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this dissertation, Rodnick chronicles the loss of Assiniboine culture. The Assiniboine are the most northerly extension of Sioux-speaking people on the Great Plains. They signed the Fort Laramie treaty in 1851 and permanently settled on Fort Belknap Reservation in 1888 after the near extinction of the buffalo forced them to change their way of life. In the 1890s, compulsory education, wage labor, farming, and stock raising began a period of assimilation. The total failure of farming and ranching left the Assiniboine impoverished by the 1930s. Rodnick describes the different dance societies and relates several Assiniboine life histories.
SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Individuation and mobility
Sodalities
Marriage
Religious practices
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
Evaluation
Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
Ethnologist
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.
4: Excellent Secondary 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 ; 2000
Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
1935
Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
1640-1935
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
[by] David Rodnick
Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Pennsylvania, 1936
'A study for the Applied Anthropology Unit of the United States Indian Service, Department of the Interior.'
Mimeographied
Includes bibliographical references
LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
38008787
LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
Assiniboine Indians