Cutting Wheat on Sup't Yellowtail's Ranch, 1935
Crow Indian Gardeners & Farmers 1930s
Description:
"Cutting Wheat on Sup't Yellowtail's Ranch": One Crow man stands on a tractor and the other behind him stands up on a swather as the pair harvest wheat on Robert Yellowtail's ranch on the Crow reservation. It is unclear if one of the men is Yellowtail. Both men wear reservation hats.
Culture or Community:
Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke)
Other Forms:
Originals: b&w glossy photograph
Date of Creation:
1935
Physical Details:
One of two black and white glossy photographs placed in brackets, attached to a page in a report
Catalog Number:
CIVAM-NARA #8761.2
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, 1935 to December 31, 1935,” p. 47. 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 #8761.2.
Creators:
U.S. Department of Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Division of Extension and Industry, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Division of Extension and Industry
Keywords:
Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke)
Crow Indian Reservation
Farming
Men
Tractors
1930s
Big Horn County
Crow Indians
Farms
Photograph
Yellowtail
Montana
Division Extension & Industry
Harvest
Reservation hat
Robert (1889-1988)
Black & white image
Farm equipment
Lodge Grass District
Swather
image