Basis of Marriage

Regulation of Marriage

Arranging a Marriage

Nuptials

Secondary Marriages

Residence

Polygamy

Population

Morbidity

History

Acculturation and Culture Contact

External Trade

Community Structure

External Relations

Public Welfare

Instigation of War

Disasters

Clans

Moieties

Status, Role, and Prestige

Talent Mobility

Accumulation of Wealth

Age Stratification

Gender Status

Sodalities

Sacred Objects and Places

Police

Social Control

Judicial Authority

Labor Supply and Employment

Traditional History

Inter-Community Relations

Bibliographies in Sources

Domesticated Animals

Exchange Transactions

Retail Marketing

Composition of Population

Internal Migration

Architecture

Dwellings

Settlement Patterns

Research and Development

Organized Ceremonial

Kinship Terminology

General Character of Religion

Cosmology

Mythology

Animism

Prayers and Sacrifices

Asceticism

Revelation and Divination

Sociocultural Trends

Annual Cycle

Hunting and Trapping

Tillage

Human Effects on Environment

Linguistic Identification

Animal by-Products

Mats and Basketry

Normal Garb

Clothing Manufacture

Ceramic Technology

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Visual Arts

Division of Labor by Gender

Reviews and Critiques

Shamans and Psychotherapists

Magic

Priesthood

Missions

Military Installations

Material Not Relevant

Tribe and Nation

Community Heads

Community Councils

Form and Rules of Government

Location

Life and Death

Burial Practices and Funerals

Eschatology

Identification

External Migration

Historical Reconstruction

Magical and Mental Therapy

Medical Therapy

Real Property

Changes in Property Rights

Household

Extended Families

Inheritance

Techniques of Socialization

Aggression Training

Transmission of Cultural Norms

CULTURE SUMMARY: HIDATSA

ETHNONYMS

ORIENTATION

HISTORY AND CULTURAL RELATIONS

SETTLEMENTS

ECONOMY

KINSHIP

MARRIAGE AND FAMILY

SOCIOPOLITICAL ORGANIZATION

RELIGION AND EXPRESSIVE CULTURE

CREDITS

IDENTIFICATION AND LOCATION

DEMOGRAPHY

LINGUISTIC AFFILIATION

SUBSISTENCE

COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES

INDUSTRIAL ARTS

TRADE

DIVISION OF LABOR

LAND TENURE

KIN GROUPS AND DESCENT

KINSHIP TERMINOLOGY

MARRIAGE

DOMESTIC UNIT

INHERITANCE

SOCIALIZATION

SOCIAL ORGANIZATION

POLITICAL ORGANIZATION

SOCIAL CONTROL

CONFLICT

RELIGIOUS BELIEFS

RELIGIOUS PRACTITIONERS

CEREMONIES

MEDICINE

DEATH AND AFTERLIFE

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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.

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