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Excerpt from The Tobacco Society of the Crow IndiansAlthough the Tobacco society loomed large in the. Tribal life Of the Crow, its ceremonial activities probably ranking next to the Sun dance in importance, I am not acquainted with any detailed accounts Of the organization. The only ones I have seen are that by Curtis in The North American Indian, vol. 4, 1909, pp. 61-67, and Simms's paper on the Cultivation Of (medicine Tobacco' by the Crows ...

Excerpt from Culture EthnologyFor purely practical reasons, connected with the minute division of labor that has become imperative with modern specialization, ethnology has in practice concerned itself with the cruder cultures of peoples without a knowledge of writ ing. But this division is an illogical and artificial one. As the biologist can study life as manifested in the human organism as well as in the amoeba, so the ethnologist might exa...

Excerpt from Of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. 21: Part I, Notes on the Social Organization and Customs of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Crow IndiansThe Hidatsa (minitari, Gros' Ventre of the Missouri) form, with the closely related Crow Indians, a distinct branch of the Siouan family. They now reside on' the Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota, which they Share with the Mandan and Arikara. According to the census of 1910 they n...

Excerpt from Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. 25: Vol. XXV, Part IStill another negative feature merits attention. Several Plains tribes notably the Hidatsa, Blackfoot, and Arapaho utilize widespread tales to account for the origin of rituals. For example, the Blood combine the piqued buffalo wife story with an explanation of the beginning of the Horn society. This type is singularly lacking among the Crow...

Excerpt from Sun Dance of the Shoshoni, Ute, and HidatsaAll the participants expect to get good luck and increase their prospects of long life by the ceremony. Some have merely this general object, others go in for the specific purpose of being cured of sickness. Andy himself has never felt better than since he began taking part in the dance. However, he does not start a ceremony from his own initia tive. I generally have a dream that I should...

Excerpt from Social Life of the Crow IndiansRiver down to the Missouri con¿uence. They met the Assiniboine, and were apparently also in more frequent contact with the Hidatsa than the Mountain Crow, so that certain societies, such as the Horse society and also one Crazy Dog organization, l are regarded as distinctive of the River Crow, who are said to have adopted them from the tribes mentioned. The many-lodges, according to all accounts, occu...

Excerpt from Primitive SocietyPolygyny. Polyandry. Sexual Communism. Hypothetical Sexual Communism.The family The Bilateral Kin Group. Looseness Of the Family Unit. Matrilocal and Patrilocal Resi dence. Sexual Division of Labor. Segregation Of Unmarried. Sexual Segregation. Adoption. Summary.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproducti...

Excerpt from Societies of the Crow, Hidatsa and Mandan IndiansDance and Clowns have been included for purposes of comparison with other tribes.My interpreters were t he same to whom acknowledgment has already been made in the introduction to my Social Life of the Crow Indians, but the work on military societies was conducted more particularly with the assistance of James Carpenter, Robert Yellowtail, and Henry Russell.About the PublisherForgot...