They Call Me Agnes: A Crow Narrative Based on the Life of Agnes Yellowtail Deernose

by Fred W. Voget

In They Call Me Agnes, the narrator, Agnes Deernose, provides a warm, personal view of Crow Indian family life and culture. Fred Voget, anthropologist and adopted Crow, sets the stage for Agnes’s story, which he compiled from extensive interviews with Agnes and her friends. He describes the origins of the Crows and their culture during buffalo-hunting days and early reservation life. Through Agnes, an elderly Crow woman, he also reveals changes wrought on this once far-ranging, independent tribe by twentieth-century forces.  

Genres: Nonfiction, History

256 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1995

Reviews

[Katie · Rating 3 out of 5]

My grandpa wrote this; I've actually met Agnes several times. Not my usual fare, but I figured I should read it eventually.

[Marlene · Rating 4 out of 5]

In They Call Me Agnes, the narrator, Agnes Deernose, provides a warm, personal view of Crow Indian family life and culture. Fred Voget, anthropologist and adopted Crow, sets the stage for Agnes’s story, which he compiled from extensive interviews with Agnes and her friends. He describes the origins of the Crows and their culture during buffalo-hunting days and early reservation life. Through Agnes, an elderly Crow woman, he also reveals changes wrought on this once far-ranging, independent tribe by twentieth-century forces.
Genres
Nonfiction
History