Amskapi Pikuni
The Blackfeet People
Publication Year: 2012
Published by: State University of New York Press
Cover
Title Page, Copyright
Contents
List of Illustrations
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pp. ix-x
Preface
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pp. xi-xiii
Just a century ago, a young man who had grown up in Indiana farm country came out to Browning to purchase Blackfoot manufactures for exhibit and study in New York’s American Museum of Natural History. Clark Wissler hired as his interpreter David Duvall, son of Yellow Bird...
Memorial to Stewart Miller
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pp. xv-xix
First and foremost among Amskapi Pikuni who assisted me in developing this book was Stewart E. Miller (1950–2008). Employed in the Blackfeet Tribe Planning Office, Stewart worked ceaselessly to build a database of information and photographs for Amskapi Pikuni history. He shared...
1. Wissler’s 1933 Manuscript
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pp. 1-175
The usual published study of a tribal culture is projected on the assumption that the culture as described is a highly standardized form of social behavior, which existed with little change over an indefinite period of time preceding white contact. It is doubtful if this assumption is...
2. The Amskapi Pikuni from the 1950s to 2010
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pp. 177-181
Young Blackfeet men were being drafted to the army or attending college. The young women of the reservation were being taught home economics. The United States Government began a revised relocation policy for young people. Under the relocation policy the Bureau of Indian...
3. Bungling
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pp. 183-194
Clark Wissler’s concept of human ecology means more than the interactions of people with their landscape and natural resources: it covers political factors, too. The history of the Blackfeet Reservation is a chronicle of inept administrators pushing misguided policies. Graft and conniving...
4. Schooling
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pp. 195-209
Formal schooling has been a divisive issue on the Blackfeet Reservation. “Education,” meaning schooling, was the instrument grasped by Anglo missionaries and their associates the United States and Canadian bureaus of Indian Affairs. Amskapi Pikuni attended U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs...
5. The Ranchers
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pp. 211-227
The history of the Amskapi Pikuni covers a large number of families often called “mixed-bloods.” It’s been common to oppose “mixed-bloods” or “Progressives” to “full-bloods.” Reality has been, from one point of view, much more complex than that, or from another point of view, simpler...
6. About Clark Wissler
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pp. 229-244
Clark Wissler was born September 18, 1870, on an Indiana farm, and died August 25, 1947, in New York City. Between 1902 and 1905, he traveled to several northern Plains reservations to record cultural practices and collect representative materials for the American Museum of Natural...
Images
Addendum
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pp. 245-246
Bounded on the south by a line drawn eastward from the Hell Gate or Medicine Rock passes to the nearest source of the Musselshell River, down that river to its mouth, and down the Missouri to the mouth of Milk River; on the east by a line due north...
Notes
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pp. 247-252
References
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pp. 253-267
Index
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pp. 269-272
Back Cover
E-ISBN-13: 9781438443362
Print-ISBN-13: 9781438443355
Page Count: 304
Publication Year: 2012
