We arrived at the mission in Hays on August 9, 1976, in the early afternoon. I was astonished to discover that my first fieldnotes from...

The Gros Ventre or A’aniii are an Algonquian-speaking people. There are quite a few tribes that speak languages belonging to this family....

The furthest west I’d been was to St. Louis when my brother was teaching at the University of Missouri. I could count on one hand the...