book chapter
Pawnee, Blackfoot and Cheyenne: history and folklore of the Plains
Charles Scribner's Sons • New York • Published In 1961 • Pages:
By: Grinnell, George Bird.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The author has presented in this document a cross-sectional view of three different aspects of Pawnee ethnography, namely that of the summer buffalo hunt in which the author himself was an active participant, the organization of the Pawnees as scouts for the U.S. Army and the role that they played in the Indian wars of the latter part of the 19th century, and finally examples of Pawnee literature and mythology as reflected in their hero stories and folk tales. The author, a natural scientist in the American West, first met the Pawnee in 1870 while on a geological expedition with Professor Othniel C. Marsh of Yale University.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Hunting and trapping
- Travel
- Literary texts
- External relations
- Mythology
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Pawnee
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1998
- 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 chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Natural Scientist
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1962
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1870-1885
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ca. 1840s-1885
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Nebraska, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- George Bird Grinnell
- The section dealing with Frank North and his Pawnee scouts has been indexed for International Relations (648), since this type of military organization was not indigenous to the Pawnees, but instead a convenient military division imposed upon them by the U.S. Army.
- Only pp. i-iii, 12-80, dealing with the Pawnee, are included
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 61007217
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Pawnee Indians