1922 Industrial Survey of Old Crane
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Protocol: Apsáalooke Public AccessCreated: Monday, September 27, 2021 - 00:00Creator: Office of Indian AffairsDescription: Log cabin with a garden and a woman and man, likely Old Crane, out front. Behind the hosue is a wagon being pulled by two horses.Tags: alfalfahayfarm work- women farmerspatronizingshared equipmentintergenerational familyCrow CouncilFourth of July |
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Protocol: Apsáalooke Public AccessCreated: Monday, September 27, 2021 - 00:00Creator: Office of Indian AffairsDescription: Log cabin with a garden and a woman and man, likely Old Crane, out front. Behind the hosue is a wagon being pulled by two horses.Tags: alfalfahayfarm work- women farmerspatronizingshared equipmentintergenerational familyCrow CouncilFourth of July |
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Protocol: Apsáalooke Public AccessCreated: Monday, September 27, 2021 - 00:00Creator: Office of Indian AffairsDescription: Log cabin with a garden and a woman and man, likely Old Crane, out front. Behind the hosue is a wagon being pulled by two horses.Tags: alfalfahayfarm work- women farmerspatronizingshared equipmentintergenerational familyCrow CouncilFourth of July |
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Summary:
In 1922, the Crow Indian Agent surveyed 244 Crow properties, including the home of Old Crane.Description:
Caution: This survey transcription contains prejudiced descriptions and may contain violent language.
Transcription:
"This farm is a rather productive one. It produces 2 or 3 good crops of alfalfa every year and some years has had as much as 200 ton of hay. There are 3 able bodied men besides the old grandfather, who is not able to work.
There are the 3 women living in this little 2-room log house, working on this 80 A. of land. These boys should get away on to their own land and establish their own home and they both express their desire to do so whenever they can.
Old Crane, himself, has not much time for real farming. He is one of the regular councilmen and sort of tribal advisers and that responsibility is about all that one man on his size is supposed to carry.
It appears that all of the implements and stock belong to the son, Roy, rather than to his father, Old Crane. When we arrived there at his place, about the middle of the forenoon, we found the 4 men sitting in the shade. The grass was soft and attractive. Old Crane's wife was out in the garden working diligently. They had just returned to his place after having been at work on the road in a different locality, and the weeds had continued to crow, even while they were gone, and she was going after then right. She was doing her best to get the young man, as well as her husband, Old Crane, to get a move on and get a cultivator and some hoes and help her. They had a nice looking garden, ample in size, and if these men had responded to her admonitions, it should look well by this time.
Their hay was ready to cut. They promised to get to cutting right away and to stay at home over the Fourth. These boys have done very well and if arrangements could be made for them to work for themselves on their own places, they give promise of progress."
Location Description:
2 miles southeast of Pryor.
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1922 July 1stCreator:
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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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