This history of the Crow Indians links their nineteenth-century nomadic life and their modern existence. The Crows not only withstood the dislocation and conquest visited on them after 1805, but acted in the midst of these events to construct a modern Indian community--a nation. Their efforts sustained the pride and strength reflected in Chief Plenty Coups' statement in 1925 that he did "not care at all what historians have to say about Crow Indians," as well as their community's faith in the beauty of its traditions and its inventions. Frederick E. Hoxie demonstrates that contact with outsiders drew the Crows together and tested their ability to adapt their traditions to new conditions. He emphasizes political life, but also describes changes in social relations, religious beliefs, and economic activities. His final chapter discusses the significance of the Crow experience for American history in general.
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"...Hoxie's work is a welcome addition to our understanding of how native people adjusted to the advance of American society and its capitalistic economy." American Historical Review
"...Hoxie has carefully researched archival evidence and has applied his field work on the Crow Reservation in order to present a better understanding of Crow survival amidst historical change. This book is strongly recommended..." Western Historical Quarterly
"Frederick E. Hoxie makes an important contribution to our understanding of the West and its original inhabitants. Wonderfully written, hugely informative, Parading Through History will go down as the history of the Crow Nation." James Welch, author of Killing Custer
"Parading through History" is an important and thought-provoking work. Frederick Hoxie presents a story of the perseverance and adaptation that led to the construction of a modern Indian community....Parading through History deepens our understanding of Crow history and answers a long-felt need to examine how this people creatively adapted to changing circumstances while retaining a distinctive crow identity. It also raises many exciting new questions in Crow history." Martha Foster, American Indian Culture and Research Journal
"Hoxie provides a unique view of tribal structure....Parading through History is highly recommended reading. Well written and researched, it offers a significant new approach to tribal history, one that other scholars are sure to follow." Robert A. Trennert, Montana Reviews
"Parading through History is the most penetrating and intellectually challenging book available on modern Crow history and politics....It is an essential book for any further examination and analysis of Crow history and intercultural dynamics." C. Adrian Heidenreich
"...Hoxie has carefully researched archival evidence and has applied his field work on the Crow Reservation in order to present a better understanding of Crow survival amidst historical change. This book is strongly recommended..." Western Historical Quarterly
"Frederick E. Hoxie makes an important contribution to our understanding of the West and its original inhabitants. Wonderfully written, hugely informative, Parading Through History will go down as the history of the Crow Nation." James Welch, author of Killing Custer
"Parading through History" is an important and thought-provoking work. Frederick Hoxie presents a story of the perseverance and adaptation that led to the construction of a modern Indian community....Parading through History deepens our understanding of Crow history and answers a long-felt need to examine how this people creatively adapted to changing circumstances while retaining a distinctive crow identity. It also raises many exciting new questions in Crow history." Martha Foster, American Indian Culture and Research Journal
"Hoxie provides a unique view of tribal structure....Parading through History is highly recommended reading. Well written and researched, it offers a significant new approach to tribal history, one that other scholars are sure to follow." Robert A. Trennert, Montana Reviews
"Parading through History is the most penetrating and intellectually challenging book available on modern Crow history and politics....It is an essential book for any further examination and analysis of Crow history and intercultural dynamics." C. Adrian Heidenreich
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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.
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An essential text for understanding the Crow Indian Culture,
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This review is from: Parading Through History: The Making of the Crow Nation in America 1805-1935 (Studies in North American Indian History) (Hardcover)
This well researched text provides great insight into the Crow Indian culture. Beginning with earliest recorded written accounts, proceding through the forced move of the Crow, or Apslaloke, from historic homelands and concentrated on their modern day reservation, this is an excellent introduction or supplement to a basic understanding of this plains nation. There is a lot of first person quotes, good photo documentation and scholarly posings. The book concludes with a interesting analysis of Chief Plenty Coups presentation at the dedication of the tomb of the unknown soldier and it's meaning as representative of Native American society at that time.
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land sale agreement, agency boarding school, agency policemen, tobacco society, tribal treasury, unallotted lands, tribal income, reservation environment, reservation administration, local stockmen, reservation era, allotting agents, tribal business committee, reservation districts, tribal census, tribal herd, local cattlemen, district farms, council proceedings, tribal attorney, tribal assets, agency superintendent, grazing leases, tribal funds, peyote ritual Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Indian Office, Little Bighorn, Spotted Horse, Lodge Grass, Sword Bearer, United States, Medicine Crow, Henry Armstrong, Crow Indians, Fort Custer, Pretty Eagle, River Crow, Crazy Head, Iron Bull, Black Lodge, Robert Yellowtail, University of Nebraska Press, Missouri River, Old Dog, Big Medicine, Mountain Crow, New York, Sore Belly, Fort Laramie, World War New!
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land sale agreement, agency boarding school, agency policemen, tobacco society, tribal treasury, unallotted lands, tribal income, reservation environment, reservation administration, local stockmen, reservation era, allotting agents, tribal business committee, reservation districts, tribal census, tribal herd, local cattlemen, district farms, council proceedings, tribal attorney, tribal assets, agency superintendent, grazing leases, tribal funds, peyote ritual Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Indian Office, Little Bighorn, Spotted Horse, Lodge Grass, Sword Bearer, United States, Medicine Crow, Henry Armstrong, Crow Indians, Fort Custer, Pretty Eagle, River Crow, Crazy Head, Iron Bull, Black Lodge, Robert Yellowtail, University of Nebraska Press, Missouri River, Old Dog, Big Medicine, Mountain Crow, New York, Sore Belly, Fort Laramie, World War New!
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- Five Indian Tribes of the Upper Missouri: Sioux, Arickaras, Assiniboines, Crees, Crows (Civilization of the American Indian Series) by Edwin Thompson Denig on 6 pages
- Adventures of a Mountain Man: The Narrative of Zenas Leonard by Zenas Leonard on 6 pages
- Memoirs of a White Crow Indian by Thomas H. Leforge on 5 pages
- Early Fur Trade on the Northern Plains: Canadian Traders Among the Mandan and Hidatsa Indians, 1738-1818 (American Exploration and Travel Series) by W. Raymond Wood on page 31, page 74, and page 170
- Plenty-Coups, Chief of the Crows by F.B. Linderman on page 96, page 107, and page 117
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- A Companion to 19th-Century America (Blackwell Companions to American History) by William Barney on 6 pages
- First Peoples: A Documentary Survey of American Indian History by Colin G. Calloway on page 298, page 374, and page 376
- American Indian Ethnic Renewal: Red Power and the Resurgence of Identity and Culture by Joane Nagel on page 144, and Back Matter
- Contact Points: American Frontiers from the Mohawk Valley to the Mississippi, 1750-1830 (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American Hist) on page 117, and Back Matter
- Talking Back To Civilization: Indian Voices from the Progressive Era (Bedford Series in History and Culture) by Frederick E. Hoxie in Back Matter, and Back Flap
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