Amskapi Pikuni : The Blackfeet People

by Wissler, Clark; Kehoe, Alice Beck; Miller, Stewart E. (CON)

• ISBN13: 9781438443355
• ISBN10: 1438443358
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-08-17
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

A contemporary history of one of the best-known American Indian nations.

Author Biography

Clark Wissler (1870-1947) was an American anthropologist and a specialist in North American ethnography, focusing on the Indians of the Plains. He was the first anthropologist to perceive the normative aspect of culture, to define it as learned behavior, and to describe it as a complex of ideas, all characteristics of culture that are today generally accepted. Alice Beck Kehoe is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at Marquette University. She is the author of many books, including Controversies in Archaeology; The Ghost Dance: Ethnohistory and Revitalization, Second Edition; and North American Indians: A Comprehensive Account, Third Edition. Stewart E. Miller (1950-2008) was a Blackfeet tribal member who worked at the Tribal Historic Preservation Office. He collaborated with Kehoe, providing much of the research material and ensuring that the text reflected Blackfoot culture correctly, until he passed away suddenly in 2008.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Memorial to Stewart Miller	p. xv
Wissler's 1933 Manuscript	p. 1
The Amskapi Pikuni from the 1950s to 2010, by Chief Earl Old Person	p. 177
Bungling	p. 183
Schooling	p. 195
The Ranchers	p. 211
About Clark Wissler	p. 229
Addendum	p. 245
Notes	p. 247
References	p. 253
Index	p. 269
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