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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..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- 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
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Crow
- 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
- Plains and Plateau
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Historian
- 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
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi A. Adem; 2012
- 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
- 1884-1920
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Crow Reservation, Montana, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Frederick E. Hoxie
- Special Issue of Journal: American Indian Family History
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 74647596
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Crow Indians