Title Uses of plants by the Hidatsas of the northern plains / Gilbert Livingston Wilson ; edited and annotated by Michael Scullin

Published Lincoln, NB : University of Nebraska Press, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource Contents Plants that are eaten -- Plants that can be eaten -- Plants that are sweet -- Plants that are good to chew -- Plants that smell good -- Plants that have medicinal uses -- Plants used for fiber -- Plants used for smoking -- Plants used for dye and coloring -- Plants used for toys -- Plants used for utilitarian purposes -- Plants used for rituals or with ritual significance -- Sources of wood -- Uses of wood -- Arrows -- Earthlodges -- Miscellaneous material Summary 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. From courtship rituals that took place while gathering Juneberries, to descriptions of how the women kept young boys from stealing wild plums as they prepared them for use, to recipes for preparing and cooking local plants, Uses of Plants by the Hidatsas of the Northern Plains provides valuable details of Hidatsa daily life during the nineteenth century Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes English Print version record Subject Hidatsa Indians -- Ethnobotany Plants, Useful -- Great Plains Hidatsa Indians -- Material culture Hidatsa Indians -- Gardening Indians of North America -- Ethnobotany -- Great Plains Ethnobotany -- Great Plains HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX) HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX) HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) Ethnobotany Indians of North America -- Ethnobotany Plants, Useful Hidatsa Ethnobotanik Hidatsa Ethnobotanik Great Plains Form Electronic book Author Scullin, Michael, editor LC no. 2014010377 ISBN 9780803267749 0803267746 0803267754 9780803267756 0803267762 9780803267763

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