If the Crow family has potatoes and flour
Crow Indian Gardeners & Farmers 1930s
Description:
"If the Crow family has potatoes and flour, it can get through the winter rather easily. Many tons of potatoes were grown on the Reservation this year." In the background, Carson Yellowtail looks out across a verdant field of potatoes that he produced on his allotment near the Big Horn Mountains on the Crow Indian Reservation. Judging by the size of the potato field, Yellowtail raised the crop for market and for his own family's supply. Yellowtail poses before the extension agent's camera as a man outstanding in his field. Indeed, he was a very successful rancher and farmer.
Culture or Community:
Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke)
Other Forms:
B&W glossy photograph
Date of Creation:
1937
Physical Details:
Black and white glossy photographs placed in paper brackets, attached to a page in a report.
Catalog Number:
CIVAM-NARA #9213.1
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:
Clarence S. Runyan, Agricultural Extension Agent, Annual Report of the Division of Extension and Industry, Crow Reservation to Director of Extension and Industry, From January 1, 1937 to December 31, 1937. United States Department of Interior, Office of Indian Affairs. 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 #9290.1
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:
1930s
Montana
Crow Indian Reservation
Farms
Lodge Grass District
Potatoes
Yellowtails
Agriculture
Black & white image
Crow Indians
Flour
Men
Runyan, Charles S.
Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke)
Clothing
Division Extension & Industry
Gardeners
Photograph
Yellowtail
Big Horn County
Crops
Farming
Gardens
Planting
Carson