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A 1966-67 study of a small band of Cree Indians living in western Canada, analyzing the relations with the white townspeople and ranchers living around them.

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• Part 1 Preliminaries
• 1. A Problem and a Wedge(p. 3)
• Self-image and spoiled identities
• The meeting of cultures
• Traditional approaches
• 2. Methods and Theories(p. 12)
• The fieldwork
• Problems of acceptance
• Methods
• The impressionistic approach
• Theories
• Symbolic interaction
• The social drama
• Profanation of the self
• 3. The Present(p. 38)
• The town of Short Grass
• The reserve community
• Indians and the government
• 4. Wild Red Indians(p. 67)
• The Cree in Canadian history
• Whiskey traders and Mounties
• Early days at Short Grass
• Part 2 The Preservation of Self
• 5. Self-Sacrifice(p. 87)
• Situational interaction
• Shiftless Indians
• Days in town
• Mendicant Indians
• Trespassing Indians
• Putting Indians in their place
• 6. Covering(p. 121)
• The concealment of profane images
• Indian names
• Indian lore
• Noble savage, ignoble Indian
• Drunken Indians
• 7. Indian Givers(p. 142)
• Plains philanthropists
• What's mine is yours (and vice versa)
• Avoidance of sharing
• Stingy people
• Different attitudes toward sharing
• 8. Small Gains(p. 157)
• Conning the con man. Wits' end
• Panhandling
• Incorrigible Indians
• White roles for the Indian
• Containment
• 9. Interpretations(p. 176)
• A dual moral universe
• Pluralistic ignorance
• A complementarity of moral affronts
• Society and the assignment of moral worth
• Problems for the future
• Bibliography(p. 193)
• Index(p. 201)