Waheenee: An Indian Girl’s Story

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This book used to be at the beginning published in 1921, after Gilbert L. Wilson conducted extensive interviews with members of the Native American Hidatsa tribe living at the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in western North Dakota. Waheenee, or Buffalo-Bird Woman, his main informant, used to be 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 living, raising corn, beans and squash, and hunting buffalo and deer. Waheenee used to be the daughter of a powerful medicine man, Small Ankle, and her circle of relatives used to be a prominent one in Like-a-Fishhook Village, a settlement her grandfather helped to establish.

Dr. Wilson used to be 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 within the original text.

This electronic version of Wilson’s essential 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, together with additional notes in regards to the creator and Waheenee and her circle of relatives.

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