1922 Industrial Survey of Plenty Buffalo
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Protocol: Apsáalooke Public AccessCreated: Monday, September 27, 2021 - 00:00Creator: Office of Indian AffairsDescription: Frame cabin with a chimney and window. A log shed stands to its left.Tags: land quality - valuableirrigationcampwatermultiple housesfoodpatronizing |
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Protocol: Apsáalooke Public AccessCreated: Monday, September 27, 2021 - 00:00Creator: Office of Indian AffairsDescription: Frame cabin with a chimney and window. A log shed stands to its left.Tags: land quality - valuableirrigationcampwatermultiple housesfoodpatronizing |
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Protocol: Apsáalooke Public AccessCreated: Monday, September 27, 2021 - 00:00Creator: Office of Indian AffairsDescription: Frame cabin with a chimney and window. A log shed stands to its left.Tags: land quality - valuableirrigationcampwatermultiple housesfoodpatronizing |
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Protocol: Apsáalooke Public AccessCreated: Monday, September 27, 2021 - 00:00Creator: Office of Indian AffairsDescription: Frame cabin with a chimney and window. A log shed stands to its left.Tags: land quality - valuableirrigationcampwatermultiple housesfoodpatronizing |
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Protocol: Apsáalooke Public AccessCreated: Monday, September 27, 2021 - 00:00Creator: Office of Indian AffairsDescription: Frame cabin with a chimney and window. A log shed stands to its left.Tags: land quality - valuableirrigationcampwatermultiple housesfoodpatronizing |
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Summary:
In 1922, the Crow Indian Agent surveyed 244 Crow properties, including the home of Plenty Buffalo.Description:
Caution: This survey transcription contains prejudiced descriptions and may contain violent language.
Transcription:
"Plenty Buffalo has shown no disposition to really work. With the help of some neighbors, he did put up some 20 ton of hay. I happened to be in his field in the summer when they were stacking. He has an excellent field, with good crops growing all around it. It lays well to irrigate without danger of seepage. It would certainly grow wheat, oats, alfalfa, or most anything, but it won't grow these crops unless they are planted and cared for and that is what seems to be wanting in this case.
I found Plenty Buffalo camped down near the river in the brush. I asked him why he should leave his home. He said that when the water was turned out of the ditches, he had no water, which was true. I am reluctant to expend money and put a well where he is unless he had a better house, as his house is not really fit to live in. He has a better house on his own allotment, about 10 miles down the valley, also 80 A. of good land, but the water difficulty confronts him there about the same.
He has not made enough this year to support him and his family and will probably require some help from some other source. However, these things are purely the result of indolence, as he has the land and the water and the climate to produce a good crop of wheat at very little expense, and he certainly could have produced all kinds of garden crop, including some potatoes, for their winter use. Our job seems to be to get him to stay on one of these places and to make more use of his land. I doubt if we will succeed in this job until he is brought to realize that his only hope of eating is in his land."
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Plenty BuffaloLocation Description:
Big Horn Valley, 3 miles south of St. Xavier.
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1922 October 7thCreator:
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englishLicensing Options:
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
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NARA, Washington, D.C.Identifier:
Records of the Education Division, Reports of Industrial Surveys, RG 75, Box 8Type:
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