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(MONTANA - NATIVE AMERICANS) Dr. Joseph Medicine Crow
The Crow Indians by Joe Medicine Crow. [Cover title]Quarto, original carbon typescript manuscript, pale green self-titled wrappers with metal clasps, pp. xi , [1], 2-95, rectos only. Scattered and neat pencil marginalia and annotations in an unknown hand, wrappers slightly sunned, very good to near fine condition.
An original carbon typescript manuscript of Crow’s 1976 “The Crow Indians: 100 Years of Acculturation, Teacher Information Package, Course, Native American Studies 480” intended for instructors Joe Medicine Crow and Charles C. Bradley who taught this course in Wyola, Montana, 1976–1977. The latter item is known in two copies, one at the Smithsonian and one at the Little Big Horn College Library. As of 2009, Dr. Joseph Medicine Crow (1913– ) is the oldest living member of the Crow tribe, the Crow tribe’s last traditional chief, and the Crow Tribal Historian. His writing on Crow culture has been widely read and his scholarship and lectures on the Battle of Little Big Horn are considered preeminent. Dr. Crow was the first of his tribe to obtain a master’s degree. In 2008 he was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Cf. OCLC 41783980 and 17411882.
$450
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