1922 Industrial Survey of Henry Reed
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Protocol: Apsáalooke Public AccessCreated: Monday, September 27, 2021 - 00:00Creator: Office of Indian AffairsDescription: Log house with tents in the background. A fence post is visable in front of the home.Tags: childrenRapid Citymissionautomobilesexismdegradationinheritanceoil fieldmixed bloodfee patentintergenerational familyirrigationpatronizing |
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Protocol: Apsáalooke Public AccessCreated: Monday, September 27, 2021 - 00:00Creator: Office of Indian AffairsDescription: Log house with tents in the background. A fence post is visable in front of the home.Tags: childrenRapid Citymissionautomobilesexismdegradationinheritanceoil fieldmixed bloodfee patentintergenerational familyirrigationpatronizing |
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Protocol: Apsáalooke Public AccessCreated: Monday, September 27, 2021 - 00:00Creator: Office of Indian AffairsDescription: Log house with tents in the background. A fence post is visable in front of the home.Tags: childrenRapid Citymissionautomobilesexismdegradationinheritanceoil fieldmixed bloodfee patentintergenerational familyirrigationpatronizing |
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Summary:
In 1922, the Crow Indian Agent surveyed 244 Crow properties, including the home of Henry Reed.Description:
Caution: This survey transcription contains prejudiced descriptions and may contain violent language.
Transcription:
"House is very good and fairly well kept. It is not large enough for his large family. Two of his girls are at Rapid City School and two attend the Mission School. He had all his hay up and had been working for a neighbor in hay.
Without any wheat or oats, with only a little hay to sell, I could not quite see where the means would come from to support his automobile and his family, but they seem to have lived very well, as his wife appears to weight about 400 pounds.
They have some inherited land in the midst of what did promise to be an oil field and if this field proves to be a real producer, it is probable that they will be entirely spoiled for any future industry, because of an income from the oil. So far, it has not been enough to do much damage.
Henry is a mixed blood and under the former policy, he received his Patent in Fee. I suppose that was the explanation of his being able to support an automobile.
They live on land belonging to some members of the family. Henry is generally on his place and doing some work. He is not a trouble maker and seems to attend quite closely to his own business. It is to be regretted that he does not farm more of his land profitably. He gave us as a reason for not raising wheat and oats that he could not depend upon getting water from the irrigation system. I hear this excuse frequently. I have been convinced in many cases that it was an excuse, rather than a reason."
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Henry ReedLocation Description:
Big Horn Valley on Soap Creek.
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Original Date:
1922 August 2ndCreator:
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englishLicensing Options:
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Source:
NARA, Washington, D.C.Identifier:
Records of the Education Division, Reports of Industrial Surveys, RG 75, Box 8Type:
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