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Show 22 Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters The first White men to come into contact with the Black feet were probably the first trappers and traders that came up the Missouri River. The Indians made Fort Benton and other forts on the Missouri their trading centers. In the Eighties there was a Negro cavalry stationed at Fort Benton and. although there is no record of intermarriage, there is evidence of crossing with the Negro. In classifying these Indians as to their degree of Indian blood. only where there is White or Negro admixture are they shown on the records as mixed. This unexpected observation among the Blackfeet and related tribes raised the question as to the distribution of the blood groups among the 'Indians on the reservations contiguous to the Blackfeet the north as well as on the south. Accordingly, a study was made of putatively full-blooded Indians the on Flathead. among Stony. Sarcee, Canadian Cree." Sioux=' and Ute Indians." All these tribes were found to be similar to the larger body of Indians. predominantly group 0 (97% among the Utes). Furthermore. this surprising occurence of group A among the Blackfeet. an island of A, as it were, surrounded by an ocean of made 0, it desirable to investigate the incidence of the two sub ... groups of A among them. Such a study was therefore made in 1936 by Matson. Levine and Schrader." Of 93 putatively full blooded individuals belonging to group A that were examined. all but one (or 99%) belonged to subgroup AI' This figure is to be contrasted with the corresponding values of 84 % for Whites and 55;% for Negroes in the study of Landsteiner and Levine." In this connection. reference may be made to the 100% incidence of Al among group A native Hawaiians" in which people also the distribution of the four blood groups -resembles that of the Blackfeet Indians (60.8%). ... Only a few other instances are recorded in the literature in which a similar high frequency of Group A occurs. Heinbecker and Pault= report 63.89 % group A among 26' Baffin Island Eski mos. Schott'" reports 62.6 % of group A among 404 Laps of Sweden. Clelland'" and, more recently. Birdsell and Boyd." and Wilson,"? et al, have reported high percentage incidence of group A among the natives of Australia, among whom approximately 60 to 71 % group A is recorded. As with the Blackfeet Indians and native Hawaiians, here again the A was found to be 100% AI' Simmons' recent studies of the blood groups of certain Pacific Island- peoples are interesting in this respect. in that practically 100% of the A found among Filipinos;" Papauans.:" and Fi jiians'" all were found to be AI' Similar absence of A2 has been |
