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Searching for structure: reconstructing Crow family life during the reservation era
American Indian quarterly • 15 (3) • Published In 1991 • Pages: 287-309
By: Hoxie, Frederick E..
Abstract
Census data and related archival sources are used to reconstruct Crow family life during the reservation period. The author discusses conditions influencing major decisions including marriage, residence, and community life. A large portion of the article is devoted to discussing the benefits of combining data from archival sources with ethnographic accounts.
- Subjects
- Population
- Composition of population
- Household
- Family relationships
- Community structure
- Settlement patterns
- Regulation of marriage
- Morbidity
- Mortality
- Residence
- Real property
- Community heads
- Acculturation and culture contact
- culture
- Crow
- HRAF PubDate
- 2014
- Region
- North America
- Sub Region
- Plains and Plateau
- Document Type
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Historian
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- Analyst
- Teferi A. Adem; 2012
- Field Date
- no date
- Coverage Date
- 1884-1920
- Coverage Place
- Crow Reservation, Montana, United States
- Notes
- Frederick E. Hoxie
- Special Issue of Journal: American Indian Family History
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCN
- 74647596
- LCSH
- Crow Indians