The Montana Cree: A Study in Religious Persistence

By Verne Dusenberry and Lynne Dusenberry Crow

Book Overview

The Montana Cree is a study of religion as a sustaining force in American Indian life. On the small Rocky Boy reservation in northern Montana, the Cree Indians provide an example of how a people transplanted and persecuted throughout their history can maintain and develop a tribal identity and unity through the continuance of their religious values.

As the adopted son of Mose Michelle, a hereditary Pend O'Reille chief, Verne Dusenberry moved easily within Indian circles as an accepted participant-observer in many religious ceremonies. His ethnographic study provides detailed descriptions of ceremonies - the Shaking Tent, Ghost Dance, and Sun Dance - which are seldom accurately described elsewhere.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806130253
• ISBN13: 9780806130255
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"