Waheenee: An Indian Girl's Story
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"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.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0803297033
ISBN13:9780803297036
Release Date:November 1981
Publisher:Bison Books
Length:189 Pages
Weight:0.52 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 5.3" x 7.9"
Customer Reviews
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Magnificent
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
This is a magificent story for those who wish to understand Native culture, it ranks withPretty-Shield or Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman as a book that is the next best thing to actually speaking with someone from that time and culture. Would that all books on this area were as good.
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