Book
Buffalo Bird Woman's garden: agriculture of the Hidatsa Indians
Minnesota Historical Society Press • St. Paul, Minn. • Published In 1987 • Pages: xxiii, 129
By: Waheenee, Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This work documents the agricultural practices and foodways of the Hidatsa as related by Buffalo Bird Woman, who learned from the knowledgeable women of her community to grow and prepare such staples as corn, beans, squash and sunflowers, honing her skills for four decades before resettlement on allotted reservation lands and imposed use of the plow and introduced cultivars disrupted native subsistence practices adapted to the local environment.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Life history materials
- Tillage
- Vegetable production
- Cereal agriculture
- Special crops
- Household
- Family relationships
- Childhood activities
- Preservation and storage of food
- Food preparation
- Diet
- Eating
- Real property
- Agricultural science
- Ethnobotany
- Fauna
- Flora
- Food preparation
- Diet
- Preservation and storage of food
- Eating
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Hidatsa
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Plains and Plateau
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Indigenous Person
- Anthropologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2013
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1906-1918
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1845-1885
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- western McLean county, North Dakota, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- [as told to] Gilbert L. Wilson; with a new introduction by Jeffrey R. Hanson
- Reprint by Borealis Books. Originally published: Agriculture of the Hidatsa Indians: An Indiana Interpretation. Minneapolis, 1917.
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 87020355
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Waheenee, 1839?-
- Goodbird, Edward
- Hidatsa Indians--Agriculture