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An inquiry into the political and economic structures of the Alexis Band of Wood Stoney Indians, 1880-1964
University Microfilms Inc. • Ann Arbor, Mich. • Published In 2000 • Pages:
By: Andersen, Raoul Randall.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a dissertation on the Alexis Band of the Stoney Indians in Alberta, based on fieldwork carried out over three summers, 1964-1966. Andersen discusses and compares the political, social, and economic structure of the Alexis society in the Pre-Reserve period prior to 1877, the period of Government Trusteeship (1877-1957), and the more recent period of Band Council Leadership. Leadership gradually changed hands from the elder camp leaders to young bilingual members of the Band Council. Also the key social unit changed from a camp group to nuclear family. In the middle period, the government failed in their attempt to change the Alexis subsistence base from hunter-gatherers to farmers and ranchers. Education, medical care, and wage labor have favored a more settled existence, especially among the young and old. Andersen also discusses the Alexis relations with the surrounding white communities.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Food quest
- Animal husbandry
- Agriculture
- Production and supply
- Ethnic stratification
- Public welfare
- Community heads
- Community councils
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Stoney
- 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
- 1964-1966
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1778-1964
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Alberta, Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- Raoul Randall Andersen
- Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Missouri, Columbia, 1968
- UM 68-12,480
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-269)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Assiniboine Indians