They Call Me Agnes: A Crow Narrative Based on the Life of Agnes Yellowtail Deernose - Hardcover

Voget, Fred W; Mee, Mary K

 
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Synopsis

This narrative of a Crow Indian woman is accompanied by a study of Crow life. The author describes the origins of the Crows and their culture during the buffalo-hunting days and early reservation life. Through Agnes, he reveals changes wrought in this once far-ranging tribe by 20th-century forces.

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Synopsis

The primary narrator, Agnes Deernose, offers a personable, straightforward story of Crow Indian family life and culture, from her own birth and childhood, as related to her, to cultural lore and the changes that she witnessed since about 1910. Voget (anthropology, Southern Illinois U.) provides a historical introduction to Crow and reservation cult

About the Author

Fred W. Voget was Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, and is the author of The Shoshoni-Crow Sundance, also published by the University of Oklahoma Press.

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9780806133195: They Call Me Agnes: A Crow Narrative Based on the Life of Agnes Yellowtail Deernose

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ISBN 10:  0806133198 ISBN 13:  9780806133195
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001
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