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This particular volume I bought at the Museum of the Plains Indian in Browning, Montana. Ewers, the author, was the first Curator of that place. The Blackfeet is a straight forward ethnography of the Blackfeet circa the early 50s.
Ewers is strong on providing transcriptions of statements by elderly Blackfeet who can speak first hand about their rituals and practices from back in the day. His description of "material culture" (what they ate, what they wore, how they lived) are stronger then his descriptions of their native religion and the non-material culture.
As you would excpect from a work of this age, Ewers offers little to no criticism of the united states government or its conduct towards the Blackfeet. He even goes so far as to praise the efforts of several "indian agents"- as corrupt and venal a bunch of men as you are likely to encounter in history.
The relative simplicity of Blackfeet culture makes this 300 pages an easy read. I would be interested in reading further about the original Blackfeet native religion- Ewers left me with many questions. I think that subject alone warrants a book- "The Religion of the Plains Indians.
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