Book
The Blood People: a division of the Blackfoot Confederacy : an illustrated interpretation of the old ways
Harper &Row • New York • Published In 1977 • Pages:
By: Hungry Wolf, Adolf.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a comprehensive monograph covering many aspects of Blood culture; religion and ritual, men's and women's societies, and warfare and raiding are especially well described. Also of value are the numerous narratives of pre- and early reservation life obtained by Hungry Wolf from a broad spectrum of elderly individuals. This book should be used with caution, however, since the author (a non-Indian) apparently felt so immersed in Blood life that he did not think it necessary to clearly distinguish his own views from those of his informants. Further, it is often difficult to determine the exact provenance of his factual information, which may derive from documentary sources, from the testimony of Blood informants, or from his own personal experiences.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Organized ceremonial
- Sodalities
- Instigation of war
- Warfare
- Sacred objects and places
- Mythology
- Personal grooming
- Recreational and non-therapeutic drugs
- Literary texts
- External relations
- Community heads
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Blackfoot
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1999
- 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.
- Foreign Resident
- 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
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- David Sherwood ; Marlene Martin ; 1982-1983
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- ca.1972
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ca. 1850-1972
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Blood Reserve and environs, Alberta,Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- Adolf Hungry Wolf
- Includes index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 76008706
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Siksika Indians