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Edwin Thompson Denig entered the fur trade on the Upper Missouri River in 1833. As husband to the daughter of an Assiniboine headman and as a bookkeeper stationed at Fort Union, Denig became knowledgeable about the tribal groups of the Upper Missouri. By the 1840s and 1850s, several noted investigators of Indian culture were consulting him, including Audubon, Hayden, and Schoolcraft. He was not content to draw on his own knowledge but instead interviewed "in company with the Indians for an entire year" until he had obtained satisfactory answers.
Denig's manuscript was unpublished until 1930, when it was edited for publication in the Smithsonian Bureau of Ethnology's "Forty-sixth Annual Report." The report, long unavailable, is reprinted here for the first time. It includes a complete ethnology of the Assiniboine Indians, including information on their history, tribal organizations and government, religion, manners and customs, warfare, dances, and language. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
The Assiniboine,Edwin Thompson Denig,J. N. B. Hewitt,David R. Miller,University of Oklahoma Press,0806132353,Anthropology - Cultural,Assiniboine Indians,Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies - Tribes,History - General History,Native American,Native American Anthropology,Social Science,Sociology,United States - 19th Century,Alberta,Ethnic studies,History of specific racial & ethnic groups,North America
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