Montana 1911: A Professor and his Wife Among the Blackfeet

Translated and edited by Mary Eggermont-Molenaar
with Contributions from Ingee Genee, Alice Kehoe, and Klaas van Berkel

$69.95 sc
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ISBN 1-55238-114-5
425pp., b&w photographs, notes, appendix
10.25" x 8.75 "

Indigenous Studies

About the Book

Montana 1911: A Professor and his Wife among the Blackfeet is the complete text diary kept by Mrs. W.M. Uhlenbeck-Melchior while accompanying her husband, the Dutch anthropologist/linguist, Dr. C.C. Uhlenbeck during his fieldwork on the Blackfeet reservation in Montana in the summer of 1911. Her eyewitness account of their three-month stay gives the reader fascinating insights into the world of the Blackfeet as much as the Uhlenbecks. The first edition ever to be translated into English, this book is complete with notes, introductions, and supplementary materials. The book includes essays on Blackfeet mythology and folklore that detail life before the reservation period, and a biographical sketch of the Uhlenbecks, featuring aspects of C.C. Uhlenbecks career as a linguist and scholar, as well as numerous photographs from the era.

About the Author

Mary Eggermont-Molenaar Mary Eggermont-Molenaar was born in the Netherlands in 1945. She received a BA in social work and and MA in law and taught health law. She immigrated to Canada in1986 and is currently working as a freelance writer and translator.
Inge Genee is an assistant professor of Linguistics at the University of Lethbridge.
Alice Kehoe is a retired professor of Anthropology from Marquette University and has taught at the University of Nebraska and the University of Regina.
Klaas van Berkel studied history and philosophy at the University of Groningen and in 1983 receved his Ph D from the University of Utrecht.

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