Montana 1911 : A Professor and his Wife among the Blackfeet

This treaty took out, from the Laramie Treaty, hunt- the first trading post in Piegan country, Fort Piegan at the junction of ing grounds south of the Musselshell that were to be common to all the the Marias with the Missouri. [...] He became professor of linguistics at the University I am very happy with this small find.”6 This is a strange remark indeed of Leiden in 1899 and was elected a member of the prestigious Royal and it makes us wonder why in the world this small pencil was so impor- Academy of Sciences in the Netherlands in 1904 at the age of 38. [...] We know next poems the reflection of the depression he had experienced at the age of to nothing about her youth and can only speculate about her helping her sixteen, the first of a series of depressive episodes that would haunt him mother or attending a girls’ school in the nearby city of Alkmaar. [...] C. Kern, the Royal Academy in Amsterdam accepted Uhlenbeck’s the rigid and in his view sterile approach of the Neogrammarian school book, Baskische Studiën (Basque Studies), for publication in the proceed- and expressed his hope that close cooperation with ethnologists and ar- ings of the division of Arts. [...] They therefore eagerly accepted (Haan 1990).14 the opportunity to start a family in 1899 when a befriended and distantly Besides his official tasks in relation to the Old Germanic languages, related couple, the former East Indies administrator Spengler and his Uhlenbeck also devoted more and more time to the study of the Basque wife, suddenly died, and Uhlenbeck became official guardian to the fou