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The changing role of the chief on a California Indian Reservation
American Indian quarterly • 13 (4) • Published In 1989 • Pages: 447-455
By: Miller, Virginia P..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this article, Miller compares the roles of Yuki chiefs in aboriginal times to those on the reservation. Chiefs in both periods provided leadership, arbitrated disputes and coordinated group efforts. Traditional chiefs held considerable power over several hundred people. Chiefs on the reservation were elected annually and acted as middlemen to push acculturation. They also advocated the division of tribal lands and the allotment of individual plots, which occurred in 1892. The result was a loss of their chiefly authority, as reservation members became more independent.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Community heads
- Public welfare
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Yuki
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2003
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Northwest Coast and California
- 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.
- Ethnologist
- 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
- Ian Skoggard ; 2001
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- not specified
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1856-1904
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Round Valley Reservation, Mendocino County, California, Unites States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Virginia P. Miller
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 454-455)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 74647596
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Yuki Indians