They Call Me Agnes: Crow Narrative Based on the Life of Agnes Yellowtail Deernose, a

By Fred W. Voget

Book Overview

In They Call Me Agnes, the narrator, Agnes Deernose, provides a warm, personal view of Crow Indian family life and culture.

Fred Voget, anthropologist and adopted Crow, sets the stage for Agnes's story, which he compiled from extensive interviews with Agnes and her friends. He describes the origins of the Crows and their culture during buffalo-hunting days and early reservation life. Through Agnes, an elderly Crow woman, he also reveals changes wrought on this once far-ranging, independent tribe by twentieth-century forces.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806133198
• ISBN13: 9780806133195
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"