Book
The Blackfeet: raiders of the northwestern Plains
University of Oklahoma Press • 49 • Published In 1958 • Pages: xviii, 348 , plates
By: Ewers, John C. (John Canfield).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is primarily a general memory ethnography focusing on the Piegan and Blood ca. 1850. Ewers also presents a great deal of historical data from 1700-1950. The ethnographic subjects covered are buffalo hunting, community life, arts and crafts, warfare, leisure time activities, religion, and missionary activities. Most of the data was gathered while Ewers was the curator of the Museum of the Plains Indian on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Montana.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Instigation of war
- Warfare
- External relations
- Public welfare
- Organized ceremonial
- Aftermath of combat
- Childhood activities
- Adolescent activities
- Travel
- Animal transport
- Domesticated animals
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Blackfoot
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1999
- 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 TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Government Official
- 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
- Marlene Martin ; 1982
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1941-1951
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ca. 1780-1955
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- northwestern Montana, United States; southern Alberta, Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- John Canfield Ewers
- History (175) was not used.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-336)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 58007778
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Siksika Indians