The Assiniboine - Softcover

Denig, Edwin Thompson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0806132353 ISBN 13: 9780806132358

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press, 2000

Synopsis

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 and was consulted for information on them by several noted investigators of Indian culture. When Denig was asked to respond to a circular by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, he didn’t simply rely on his own knowledge of the Assiniboines, but instead interviewed his subjects "for an entire year, until satisfactory answers [had] been obtained."

Denig’s manuscript, which he probably finished in 1854, remained unpublished until 1930, when J. N. B. Hewitt edited it for publication in the Smithsonian Bureau of American Ethnology’s Forty-sixth Annual Report. This edition, featuring an introduction by David R. Miller, provides a complete ethnology of the Assiniboine Indians, including information on their history, tribal organization and government, religion, manners and customs, warfare, dances, and language.

About this title

About the Author:

Edwin Thompson Denig (1812-1858) was a fur trader on the Upper Missouri for twenty-five years.

Review:

“This work may be regarded as the most complete and authentic description of Assiniboine Indian culture in the mid-nineteenth century known to ethnology.”—John C. Ewers, editor of Edwin Thompson Denig’s Five Indian Tribes of the Upper Missouri
 

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0806132353
• ISBN 13: 9780806132358
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304
• Editor: Hewitt J. N. B.