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Science 11 January 1980:
Vol. 207. no. 4427, pp. 201 - 202
DOI: 10.1126/science.207.4427.201
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Aboriginal Indian Residence Patterns Preserved in Censuses and Allotments

JOHN H. MOORE 1

1 Department of Anthropology, University of Oklahoma, Norman 73019

Early reservation annuity censuses and allotment ledgers, analyzed in concert, allow identification of sociologically significant subdivisions of Native American tribes. Using this method, Southern Cheyenne manhao or "bands" can be located on the allotment map of 1892 as discrete clusters of individuals known by name, age, and sex. Measurement of linear distances among individual allotments of family members enables us to quantify jural rules of postmarital residence and confirms in a test case that the descendents of the bands at the Sand Creek Massacre in fact resided matrilocally.

Submitted on June 25, 1979
Revised on October 20, 1979


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
An Ethnohistorical Perspective on Cheyenne Demography.
J. H. Moore and G. R. Campbell (1989)
Journal of Family History 14, 17-42
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