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Report of agent in Iowa: Report of Sac and Fox Agency

Annual reports of the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1897, report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs • Washington, D. C. • Published In 1897 • Pages: 146-151

By: Rebok, Horace M., Stoops, W. S..

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a brief report by an agent and a schoolteacher of the Office of Indian Affairs concerning their activities on the Tama reservation in 1896-1897. Among the topics covered are land use, developments in agriculture and livestock raising, population trends, the agency school, house types, and clothing styles.
SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Public welfare
Dwellings
Normal garb
Domesticated animals
Acculturation and culture contact
Tillage
Demography
Education system
cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
Fox
HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
2014
RegionThe area the document pertains to
North America
Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
Eastern Woodlands
Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
essay
Evaluation
Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
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.
3: Good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent
AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
Eleanor Swanson ; 1977
Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
1894-1897
Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
1896-1897
Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
Tama County, Iowa, United States
NotesAdditional notes
Horace M. Rebok and W. S. Stoops
LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
Sauk Indians
Fox Indians