Book
These mountains are our sacred places: the story of the Stoney Indians
Samuel-Stevens • Toronto, Ontario, Canada • Published In 1977 • Pages:
By: Snow, John.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a history of the Stoney people living in and around the Morley Reserve, west of Calgary, Alberta. It is a description of their way of life prior to white contact and the 100 years following the signing of Treaty No. 7 in 1876. The author is a Stoney Chief, ordained minister in the United Church of Canada, and great-great grandson of one of the signatories of the original treaty. This 100-year history is a carefully researched case against the federal and provincial governments for their failure to honor the original treaty. Snow recounts the band's failed attempt to get land in the Kootenay Plains, which was eventually flooded by a hydroelectric project. Snow tells his own life history and the contemporary pan-tribal ecumenical movement. Royalties from underlying gas reserves have brought affluence to the band after years of poverty and failed government programs, spawning a cultural revitalization movement. See document no. 6 in the the Quinault file for a similar indigenous history in support of tribal land claims.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Reviews and critiques
- Life history materials
- Internal migration
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Real property
- Community heads
- External relations
- Public welfare
- Religious denominations
- 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.
- Indigenous Person
- 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 ; 2001
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1969-1972
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1876-1977
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Morley Reserve, Alberta, Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- By Chief John Snow
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 77081413
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Assiniboine Indians