| They Call Me Agnes: Crow Narrative Based on the Life of Agnes Yellowtail Deernose, a Revised Edition Contributor(s): Voget, Fred W. (Author), Mee, Mary K. (Joint Author), Mee, Mary K. (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 0806133198 ISBN-13: 9780806133195 Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press OUR PRICE: $19.76 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1995 Annotation: In They Call Me Agnes, the narrator, Agnes Deernose, provides a warm, personal view of Crow Indian family life and culture. Fred Voget, anthropologist and adopted Crow, sets the stage for Agnes's story, which he compiled from extensive interviews with Agnes and her friends. He describes the origins of the Crows and their culture during buffalo-hunting days and early reservation life. Through Agnes, an elderly Crow woman, he also reveals changes wrought on this once far-ranging, independent tribe by twentieth-century forces. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - Native American & Aboriginal - Biography & Autobiography | Women - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 0.58" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.72 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Native American - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Cultural Region - Pacific Northwest - Cultural Region - Plains - Geographic Orientation - Montana - Cultural Region - Western U.S. |
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| Publisher Description: In They Call Me Agnes, the narrator, Agnes Deernose, provides a warm, personal view of Crow Indian family life and culture. Fred Voget, anthropologist and adopted Crow, sets the stage for Agnes's story, which he compiled from extensive interviews with Agnes and her friends. He describes the origins of the Crows and their culture during buffalo-hunting days and early reservation life. Through Agnes, an elderly Crow woman, he also reveals changes wrought on this once far-ranging, independent tribe by twentieth-century forces.
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Contributor Bio(s): Voget, Fred W.: - 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. |