Waheenee, An Indian Girl's Story
Waheenee and Gilbert L. Wilson ; Introduction by Jeffery R. Hanson; Illustrated by Frederick N. Wilson
- Lincoln, Nebraska University of Nebraska Press 1981
- 189 p.
ch. 1. A little Indian girl -- ch. 2. Winter camp -- ch. 3. The buffalo-skin cap -- ch. 4. Story telling -- ch. 5. Life in an Earth lodge -- ch. 6. Childhood games -- ch. 7. Kinship, clan cousins -- ch. 8. Indian dogs -- ch. 9. Training a dog -- ch. 10. Learning to work -- ch. 11. Picking June berries -- ch. 12. The corn husking -- ch. 13. Marriage -- ch. 14. A buffalo hunt -- ch. 15. The hunting camp -- ch. 16. Homeward bound -- ch. 17. An Indian papoose -- ch. 18. The voyage home -- Glossary of Indian words -- Explanatory notes -- Supplements: -- How to make and Indian camp -- Hints to young campers -- Indian cooking -- Editor's note.
This book was originally published in 1921, after Gilbert L. Wilson conducted extensive interviews with members of the Native American Hidatsa tribe living on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in western North Dakota. Waheenee, or Buffalo-Bird Woman, his main informant, was by then an old woman. She recounted the story of her life as a child and young woman, when her people retained a traditional Plains Indians way of life, raising corn, beans and squash, and hunting buffalo and deer. Waheenee was the daughter of a powerful medicine man, Small Ankle, and her family was a prominent one in Like-a-Fishhook Village, a settlement her grandfather helped to establish. Dr. Wilson was accompanied on his visits to the village by his brother, Frederick N. Wilson, who drew over 100 illustrations for the book. All of those wonderful illustrations have been reproduced for this digital edition and placed in context as they were in the original text.
This electronic version of Wilson’s important ethnographic study of the Hidatsa culture has been carefully and faithfully adapted to this new format for the digital age. All original content has been retained, along with additional notes about the author and Waheenee and her family.
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0803297033 (pbk.)
Waheenee 1839?-1932
Hidatsa Indians--Social life and customs Hidatsa Indians --Biography Hidatsa Indians--Social life and customs