Buffalo Bird Woman's garden : agriculture of the Hidatsa Indians

Waheenee, 1839?-1932, author.

Book 1987

Buffalo Bird Woman, a Hidatsa Indian born about 1839, was an expert gardener. Following centuries-old methods, she and the women of her family raised huge crops of corn, squash, beans, and sunflowers in the rich bottomlands of the Missouri River in what is now North Dakota. Here she shares her horticultural secrets, describing a year of activities in the garden, from preparing and planting the fields through cultivating, harvesting, and storing f...

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Waheenee, 1839?-1932

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Borealis Borealis (Saint Paul, Minn.)

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ISBN:

9780873512190

Description:

xxiii, 129 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Agriculture of the Hidatsa Indians

Notes:

Reprint. Originally published: Agriculture of the Hidatsa Indians. Minneapolis, 1917
Includes bibliographical references

Contents:

Hidatsa alphabet xxviii
Description of varieties [corn] 58-59
Varieties [bean] 84
Maps: The site of Like-a-Fishhook Village (old Fort Berthold) / Frederick Wilson
The three historically documented Hidatsa village sites: Big Hidatsa; Sakakawea; Amahami
Map of gardens S.E. [southeast] of village
East-side gardens
Illustrations: Buffalo Bird Woman, 1910 / Gilbert Wilson
Buffalo Bird Woman making a model corn stage as Frederick Wilson looks on, 1912 / G. Wilson
Like-a-Fishhook Village being dismantled, July, 1887 / George Curtis
Owl Woman with an antler rake, 1914 / G. Wilson
Owl Woman showing how to use a digging stick / G. Wilson
Sioux Woman, Goodbird's wife, hoeing squash to demonstrate the use of a bone hoe, 1912 / G. Wilson
Owl Woman gathering flowers in a skin basket, 1914 / G. Wilson
Scarecrow in a corn field, 1918 / G. Wilson
Husking corn, 1909; the woman braids the best ears / G. Wilson
Drying loose and braided ears of corn on a corn stage, 1909 / G. Wilson
Owl Woman pounding corn into meal in a corn mortar, 1914 / G. Wilson
Owl Woman slicing squash with a bone squash knife, 1916 / G. Wilson
Goodbird sitting under slices of drying squash, strung on spits and laid on a structure to resemble a corn stage / G. Wilson
Woman winnowing beans, 1909 / G. Wilson
Model of a cache pit, 1912; made by Buffalo Bird Woman in the bank of the Missouri River to show cross section / G. Wilson
Introduction to the reprint edition
Preface
Foreword
Tradition
Beginning a garden
Sunflowers
Corn
Squashes
Beans
Storing for winter
The making of a drying stage
Tools: hoes; rakes; squash knives
Fields at Like-a-Fishhook Village
Miscellanea
Since white men came
Tobacco

LCCN:

87020355

Control Number:

3413746

Other Authors:

Goodbird, Edward, translator
Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone, 1868-1930

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