Book
The Blackfoot confederacy, 1880-1920: a comparative study of Canadian and U.S. Indian policy
University of New Mexico Press • Albuquerque • Published In 1987 • Pages:
By: Samek, Hana.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This work is a comparative, historical study of a forty-year span in the life of the Blackfoot Confederacy, centered in large part on the established reservations in the northern plains of Canada and the United States. Although the author offers an evaluation of native American policies in both countries, Samek tries to present a portrait of Indian administration within the context of its time, rather than from an ideological perspective currently in vogue in both Canada and the United States (p. xi). Topics given particular attention in this study are general reservation administration policies, the search for self-support and the development of dependency, the failure of reservation economics, land policy, missionization, education, law and order, and various aspects of welfare.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Real property
- External relations
- Public welfare
- Missions
- Education system
- Elementary education
- 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 TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Historian
- 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
- John Beierle ; 1997
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1880-1920
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Blackfoot Confederacy, reservation Indians, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Hana Samek
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-229) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 87013947
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Siksika Indians