Waheenee An Indian Girl's Story

Wilson, Gilbert L, Ph.D, Told By Herself to

ISBN 10: 0803297033 / ISBN 13: 9780803297036

Edité par University of Nebraska Press, 1981

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Introduction by Jeffrey R. Hanson. 189 pages.

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• Titre: Waheenee An Indian Girl's Story
• Éditeur: University of Nebraska Press
• Date de parution: 1981
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0803297033
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780803297036
• Reliure: Soft Cover
• Illustrateur: Illustrated By Frederick N. Wilson
• Édition: 5th Bison Printing
• État de l'article: Fine
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Americana

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Synopsis

"I was born in an earth lodge by the mouth of the Knife River, in what is now North Dakota, three years after the smallpox winter." So begins the story of Waheenee, a Hidatsa Indian woman, born in 1839 amid a devastated tribe.

In 1906 Gilbert L. Wilson first visited the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation and began to study the remnants of the Hidatsa tribe. He returned in 1908, sponsored by the American Museum of Natural History, and for every summer of the next ten years he worked among the Hidatsas, making notes of all he saw. One of his chief informants was Waheenee-wea, or Buffalo-Bird Woman, who told him this, her life story.

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Excerpt from Waheenee: An Indian Girl's Story

The Hidatsas, called Minitaris by the Mandans, are a Siouan tribe and speak a language closely akin to that of the Crows. Wars with the Dakota Sioux forced them to ally themselves with the Mandans, whose culture they adopted. Lewis and Clark found the two tribes living in five villages at the mouth of the Knife river, in 1804.

In 1832 the artist Catlin visited the Five Villages, as they were called. A year later Maximilian of Wiet visited them with the artist Bodmer. Several score canvasses, the work of the two artists, are preserved to us

Smallpox nearly exterminated the two tribes in 1837-8. The survivors, a mere remnant, removed to Fort Berthold reservation where they still dwell.

In 1908, with my brother, an artist, I was sent by Dr. Clark Wissler, Curator of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, to begin cultural studies among the Hidatsas. This work, continued through successive summers for ten years, is but now drawing to a close.

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