Sup't Yellowtail Plowed 300 Acres this Year, 1935
Crow Indian Gardeners & Farmers 1930s
Description:
"Sup't Yellowtail Plowed 300 Acres this year": Robert Yellowtail watches another man plow up prairie grass with a mechanized tiller in order to plant crops on Yellowtaill's land. Yellowtail wears jeans, a cotton shirt, and a cowboy hat.
Culture or Community:
Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke)
Other Forms:
Original: b&w glossy photograph.
Date of Creation:
1935
Physical Details:
One black and white glossy photograph placed in paper brackets, attached to a page with a typed caption beneath the photo.
Catalog Number:
CIVAM-NARA #8759
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.” 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 #8759
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
Black & white image
Crow Indian Reservation
Farms
Plows
Tractors
Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke)
Clothing
Crow Indians
Landscape
Ranches
Yellowtail
Big Horn County
Cowboy hats
Division Extension & Industry
Men
Ranching
Robert (1889-1988)
Montana
Crops
Farming
Photograph
American Indian
image