Table of Contents
Introduction v
Preface xi
1 Introduction to the Blackfeet 1
Blackfeet Means Many Kinds of People 1
Fieldwork 18
In Prospect 19
2 The Blackfeet Reservation and Its People 20
Introduction 20
The Regional Habitat 21
Regional Population and Economy 23
Reservation Population and Economy 25
Summary 32
3 Horse and Buffalo Days: 1850-1880 34
Introduction 34
History before 1850 35
Economy 37
Social Organization 41
Religion 44
Values and Status 45
Summary 47
4 Dependency and Readaptation: 1884-1970 48
Introduction 48
United States Indian Policies 48
The Period of Dependency, 1884-1935 50
The Period of Self-Government, 1935-1970 56
Summary 64
5 Intratribal Diversity 66
Introduction 66
Socialization to White-Orientation 67
Socialization to Indian-Orientation 70
Analysis 73
6 Social Interaction 75
Introduction 75
Social Occasions Where Everybody Came 75
Indian-Oriented Social Occasions 78
White-Oriented Social Occasions 86
Other Social Expressions of Orientation 88
Summary 90
7 Values 92
Introduction 92
Values of the White-Oriented Group 93
Values of the Indian-Oriented Group 96
Summary 102
8 Status 103
Introduction 103
Status among the White-Oriented 104
Status among the Indian-Oriented 111
9 The Future 119
Summation 119
White-Oriented Society 119
Indian-Oriented Society 120
What Lies Ahead for the Blackfeet? 121
Epilogue 128
References 130
Recommended Reading 133