Myths and Traditions of the Crow Indians
Myths and Traditions of the Crow Indians

Author: Robert Harry Lowie

Publisher:

Published: 1918

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13:

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Beginning in 1907, the anthropologist Robert H. Lowie visited the Crow Indians at their reservation in Montana. He listened to tales that for many generations had been told around campfires in winter. Vivid tales of Old-Man-Coyote in his various guises; heroic accounts of Lodge-Boy and the Thunderbirds; supernatural stories about Raven-Face and the Spurned Lover; and other tales involving the Bear-Woman, the Offended Turtle, the Skeptical Husband--all these were recorded by Lowie.

Parading Through History
Parading Through History

Author: Frederick E. Hoxie

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13: 9780521485227

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Exploring the links between the nineteenth-century nomadic life of the Crow Indians and their modern existence, this book demonstrates that dislocation and conquest by outsiders drew the Crows together by testing their ability to adapt their traditions to new conditions.

The Crow Indians
The Crow Indians

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Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 1983-01-01

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9780803279094

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For nearly ten years between 1907 and 1931, anthropologist Robert H. Lowie lived among the Crow Indians, listening to the old men and women tell of times gone forever. Lowie learned much about what had been, and still was, a society remarkable for its variability and cohesion, and for its resistance to the encroachments of white civilization. Written with clarity and vigor, Lowie's study makes instantly accessible what had taken him years to discover. He sacrificed neither personal sensitivity nor narrative skill to scientific scruples, but brought his scientific work to life. Crow religion, ceremonies, taboos, kinship bonds, tribal organization, division of labor, codes of honor, and rites of courtship and wedlock receive their due. The Crow Indians is a masterpiece of ethnography, foremost for Lowie's portrayal of the different personalities he encountered: Gray-bull and his marital troubles; the great visionary Medicine-crow; Yellow-brow, the gifted storyteller; and many more.

From the Heart of the Crow Country
From the Heart of the Crow Country

Author: Joseph Medicine Crow

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 9780803282636

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The oral historian of the Crow tribe collects stories which introduce the world of the Crow Indians, including its legends, humorous tales, history, and everday life.

Traditions of the Crow People
Traditions of the Crow People

Author: Erin Maher

Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

Published: 2002-01-01

Total Pages: 28

ISBN-13: 9780823937417

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An introduction to the history, culture, and customs of the Crow Indians.

Radical Hope
Radical Hope

Author: Jonathan Lear

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2009-06-30

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 0674040023

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Presents the story of Plenty Coups, the last great Chief of the Crow Nation. This title contains a philosophical and ethical inquiry into a people faced with the end of their way of life.

Myths and Traditions of the Crow Indians
Myths and Traditions of the Crow Indians

Author: Robert Harry Lowie

Publisher:

Published: 1922

Total Pages: 476

ISBN-13:

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Beginning in 1907, the anthropologist Robert H. Lowie visited the Crow Indians at their reservation in Montana. He listened to tales that for many generations had been told around campfires in winter. Vivid tales of Old-Man-Coyote in his various guises; heroic accounts of Lodge-Boy and the Thunderbirds; supernatural stories about Raven-Face and the Spurned Lover; and other tales involving the Bear-Woman, the Offended Turtle, the Skeptical Husband--all these were recorded by Lowie.

The Shoshoni-Crow Sun Dance
The Shoshoni-Crow Sun Dance

Author: Fred W. Voget

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 1998-09-01

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 9780806130866

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About 1875 the Crows abandoned their own Sun Dance, but they continued to carry out other traditional rites despite opposition from missionaries and the federal government. In 1941, Crow Indians from Montana sought out leaders of the Sun Dance among the Wind River Shoshonis in Wyoming and under the direction of John Truhujo, made the ceremony a part of their lives. In The Shoshoni-Crow Sun Dance, Fred W. Voget draws on forty years of fieldwork to describe the people and circumstances leading to this singular event, the nature of the ceremony, the reconciliation’s with Christianity and peyotism, the role of the Sun Dance as a catalyst for the reassertion of Crow cultural identity, and the place the Sun Dance now holds in Crow life and culture. Voget’s description includes photographs and diagrams of the Sun Dance.

Fools Crow
Fools Crow

Author: James Welch

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9780140089370

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In the Two Medicine territory of Montana, the Pikuni Indians are forced to choose between fighting a futile war or accepting a humiliating surrender, as the encroaching numbers of whites threaten their very existence