Book
The Sun god's children
Houghton Mifflin Co. • Boston And New York • Published In 1930 • Pages:
By: Schultz, James Willard, Donaldson, Jessie Louise.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This work is a traditional ethnography of the Blackfoot Indians in the days when buffalo (bison) roamed the plains (ca. 1700s-1870s). The document discusses the early fur trade period, foods , food preparation and preservation, folk tales and mythology, ceremonials (especially in reference to the sacred tobacco rites), and warfare and raiding activities in which several eyewitness accounts of personal experiences are described. A brief biographical chapter is also presented on Chief Crowfoot , one of the prominent chiefs of the Blackfoot.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Life history materials
- History
- Hunting and trapping
- Special crops
- Diet
- Verbal arts
- Warfare
- Mythology
- Organized ceremonial
- 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.
- Unknown
- 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
- 1700s-1870s
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- northwestern Plains, Montana, United States and Alberta and Sasktachewan, Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- by James Willard Schultz and Jessie Louise Donaldson, with portraits of Blackfeet Indians by Winold Reiss
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Siksika Indians