The Plains Cree: An Ethnographic, Historical, and Comparative Study, Volume 9University of Regina Press, 1979 - 400 pages First published in 1940, David Mandelbaum's study remains the definitive account of the Plains Cree. In this revised edition, first reprinted in 1978, Part One contains the original material dealing with Plains Cree history and ethnology. Part Two is a two-fold comparative study: the first section compares the Plains Cree to other groups east of the Plains: the Eastern Cree, various Ojibwa groups, the bands of the Labrador Peninsula, the Menomini, and other Central Woodlands tribes; the second section compares Plains Cree culture to other Plains tribes, mainly those of the northern Plains. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 3 |
THE WESTWARD MOVEMENT | 15 |
THE MAINSTAYS OF PLAINS CREE ECONOMY | 51 |
MANUFACTURES AND ARTIFACTS | 81 |
SOCIAL LIFE | 105 |
THE INDIVIDUAL LIFE CYCLE | 139 |
Marriage | 146 |
RELIGION AND CEREMONIALISM | 157 |
RELIGION AND CEREMONIALISM | 301 |
Shamanism | 305 |
Beliefs | 313 |
THE PLAINS AFFILIATIONS | 326 |
SOCIAL ORGANIZATION | 337 |
CEREMONIALISM | 341 |
SUMMARY | 349 |
APPENDIX | 363 |
WARFARE | 236 |
MATERIAL CULTURE AND ECONOMIC LIFE | 267 |
SOCIAL ORGANIZATION | 289 |
157 | 299 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 377 |
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Algonquian American Indians American Museum animals Assiniboin bands berries Blackfoot Indians buffalo bundle camp Caribou Eskimos Central Algonkin Central Woodlands ceremony Cheyenne chief Chippewa Customs Crow Indians Dakota dancers DENSMORE drum Eastern Cree enemy Ethnology father feast Fine-day fish Forest gifts girl Gros Ventre hair hide horses Hudson Bay Hudson's Bay hunting JONES killed Labrador Labrador bands Lake Lake Winnipeg leader LOWIE Manito Material Culture Menomini Indians Museum of Natural Naskapi Natural History night North Northern Plains Northern Saulteaux Notes Ojibwa party Piegan pipe Plains Cree Plains Ojibwa Plains tribes pledger Potawatomi Prairie rattle ritual River robe Saskatchewan scalps server shaman side singing skin SKINNER smoke Society songs SPECK spirit helpers spirit powers stick Sun dance Sun dance lodge supernatural sweatlodge sweetgrass thongs tipi told took traits travois Ungava District vision Warriors Winnebago Winnebago Tribe WISSLER woman women young