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Uses of Plants by the Hidatsas of the Northern Plains (Hardcover)
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Uses of Plants by the Hidatsas of the Northern Plains (Hardcover)
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In 1916 anthropologist Gilbert L. Wilson worked closely with
Buffalobird-woman, a Hidatsa born in 1839 on the Fort Berthold
Reservation in western North Dakota, for a study of Hidatsa 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, 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 gathered, prepared, and
used the plants in their local environment for food, medicine,
smoking, fiber, fuel, dye, toys, rituals, and construction. It also
details the many sources and uses of wood--a scarce resource on the
northern plains.Uses of Plants by the Hidatsa of the Northern
Plains also provides valuable details of Hidatsa daily life during
the nineteenth century, 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--including the
roots, fruits, seeds, and sap.
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