Book
Pawnee hero stories and folk-tales, with notes on the origin, customs and character of the Pawnee people
Forest and Stream Publishing Company • New York • Published In 1889 • Pages:
By: Grinnell, George Bird.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
George Bird Grinnell, a natural scientist and early traveler in the American West, first met the Pawnee in 1870 while on a geological expedition with Professor Othniel C. Marsh of Yale University. His contact with the Pawnees awoke in him such interest that in 1872 he returned to live with the tribe and participate in many of their activities. After the removal of the Pawnees from their reservation in Nebraska to one in Indian Territory in Oklahoma in 1874-1875, Grinnell visited them to record their traditional life-ways, hear their stories, get their history, and then to put all these things down in book form for the sake of posterity -- the subject matter of the present work. More than two hundred pages of this document are devoted to the hero stories and folk-tales that the author obtained from informants during his visit to the reservation in Oklahoma. The remainder of the book consists of a number of ethnographic notes dealing with origins and migrations, tribal name, traditional customs, daily activities, hunting, warfare, religion, and the conditions leading to their removal to Oklahoma. A final chapter discusses the Pawnee adjustment to 'civilization' as of the late 1800s.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Texts translated into english
- 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
- 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 ; 1997
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1870-ca.1890
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1800-1880s
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Skidi (Skiri) , Chawi (Chaui), Kitkahahki, and Pitahawirataa bands; northern Kansas and Nebraska, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- by George Bird Grinnell
- Includes index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 02017932
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Pawnee Indians