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Uses of Plants by the Hidatsas of the Northern Plains

Uses of Plants by the Hidatsas of the Northern Plains

Scullin, Michael
Wilson, Gilbert L.

Hardcover

Native American HistoryBotany & HorticultureRegional: Midwest

ISBN10: 0803246749
ISBN13: 9780803246744
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: Jul 1 2014
Pages: 476
Weight: 1.84
Height: 1.44 Width: 6.48 Depth: 9.24
Language: English

In 1916 anthropologist Gilbert L. Wilson worked closely with Buffalobird-woman, a highly respected Hidatsa born in 1839 on the Fort Berthold Reservation in western North Dakota, for a study of the Hidatsas' uses of local plants. What resulted was a treasure trove of ethnobotanical information that was buried for more than seventy-five years in Wilson's archives, now held jointly by the Minnesota Historical Society and the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Wilson recorded Buffalobird-woman's insightful and vivid descriptions of how the nineteenth-century Hidatsa people had gathered, prepared, and used the plants and wood in their local environment for food, medicine, smoking, fiber, fuel, dye, toys, rituals, and construction.

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