Bird Glen Had a Well Balanced Garden Showing Vines, Root Crops, Melons, and Potatoes
Crow Indian Gardeners & Farmers 1930s
Description:
"Bird Glen Had a Well Balanced Garden Showing Vines, Root Crops, Melons, and Potatoes": Bird Glen, along with another man, stands among their many crops. The garden is lush and is surrounded by rolling hills, mountains, and some trees.
Culture or Community:
Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke)
Other Forms:
Originals: b&w glossy photograph
Date of Creation:
1936
Physical Details:
One of two Black and white glossy photographs placed in brackets, attached to a page in the report.
Catalog Number:
CIVAM-NARA #8980.2
External Links:
Provenance:
The photographs in this collection were published in the annual reports of the extension agent for the U.S. Department of Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Division of Extension and Industry at the Crow Reservation. (The text of the reports has not yet been added to the CIVAM collection.) The report photographs were copied by Cindy Ott at the National Archives and Records Administration in Washington, D.C. in March 2015. Cindy Ott organized three exhibitions of a dozen of the photographs at senior centers in the towns of Crow Agency, Lodge Grass, and Pryor on the Crow reservation in summer 2017. (Catalog records of individual photographs document which ones were exhibited.)
Citation:
Charles S. Runyan, Agricultural Agent, U.S. Dept of Interior, Office of Indian Affairs, Field Service, “Annual Report of Division of Extension and Industry: Crow Reservation; To Director of Extension and Industry; From January 1, 1936 to December 31, 1936.” Records of Bureau of Indian Affairs (RG 75), Central Classified Files, 1907-39; Crow; 40761-1912-.023.1 To 130-1936-031; Box 2: PI-163 E-121 HM 2001. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C. CIVAM-NARA #8980.2
Creators:
Charles S. Runyan, U.S. Department of Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Division of Extension and Industry, Division of Extension and Industry, Bureau of Indian Affairs
Keywords:
1930s
Crow Indian Reservation
Group photograph
Mountain
Potatoes
Ranching
image
Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke)
Crow Indians
Indians of North America
Photograph
Ranchers
American Indian
woman rancher
Black & white image
Gardeners
Landscape
Planter
women
Range
1930's
Crops
Gardens
Men
Planting
Ranches
Women Ranchers