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The Hidatsa are a Siouan-speaking people who, at the time of contact, were settled in three independent villages near the mouth of the Knife River in North Dakota. They subsisted on horticulture and on hunting, which occasionally involved lengthy expeditions in pursuit of bison. A matrilineal society in which status was gained through age-grade societies and acquisition of medicine bundles, the Hidatsa were (and remain) governed by a tribal council. Pressured by depopulation from epidemics, militarily-dominant nomadic Plains tribes, and the collapse of the bison herds and the fur trade, during the late nineteenth century they settled on the Fort Berthold Reservation along with the closely-related Mandan and the Arikara, adopting commercial farming and ranching alongside traditional subsistence horticulture supplemented by hunting.

Hidatsa social and ceremonial organization

Culture Summary

Changes in Hidatsa residence petterns

Adjustment and adaptation on the northern Plains

The Hidatsa sun dance

Social life of the Hidatsa

Mandan and Hidatsa women's societies

An Hidatsa shrine and the beliefs respecting it

Hidatsa

Buffalo Bird Woman's garden

The horse and the dog in Hidatsa culture

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Author	Title	Publication Date
Bowers, Alfred W.	Hidatsa social and ceremonial organization	1965
Hanson, Jeffery R. (Jeffery Raymond)	Culture Summary	2021
Hanson, Jeffery R. (Jeffery Raymond)	Changes in Hidatsa residence petterns	1983
Hanson, Jeffery R. (Jeffery Raymond)	Adjustment and adaptation on the northern Plains	1986
Lowie, Robert Harry	The Hidatsa sun dance	1921
Lowie, Robert Harry	Social life of the Hidatsa	1924
Lowie, Robert Harry	Mandan and Hidatsa women's societies	1913
Pepper, George H. (George Hubbard)	An Hidatsa shrine and the beliefs respecting it	1908
Stewart, Frank H.	Hidatsa	2001
Waheenee	Buffalo Bird Woman's garden	1987
Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone	The horse and the dog in Hidatsa culture	1924

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