The creation story of the SahniS, or Arikara, people begins with a
terrible flood, sent by the Great Chief Above to renew the world.
Many generations later, another devastating flood nearly destroyed
the Arikaras when the newly built Garrison Dam swamped the fertile
land of the Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota. Between the
Floods tells the story of this powerful Great Plains nation from
its mythic origins to the modern era, tracing the path of the
Arikaras through the oral traditions and oral histories that
preserve and illuminate their past. The Arikaras, like their
Hidatsa and Mandan neighbors on the northern plains, lived as both
farmers and hunter-gatherers, growing corn and hunting buffalo.
Pressure on their villages from other nations, including the
Lakhotas, forced displacements and relocations, and once
Euro-Americans entered their domain-French fur-traders, the
Spanish, and especially Americans after Lewis and Clark-the
Arikaras' strategic location on the Missouri River became both an
asset and a liability. Between the Floods follows this resilient
semi-sedentary people in their migration and settlement as they
confront the challenges of white incursions, tribal conflicts,
foreign diseases, the slave trade, and the introduction of horses
and metal tools. In the Arikaras' oral traditions and histories,
Mark van de Logt finds a key to their distant past as well as the
cultural underpinnings of their resilience and persistence, as
faith in their great prophet, Mother Corn, guides them and inspires
hope for the future. Enhanced with the insights of archaeology,
linguistics, and anthropology, and illustrated with Native maps and
ledger art, as well as historic photographs and drawings, Between
the Floods brings unprecedented depth, detail, and authenticity to
its picture of the Arikaras in the fullness and living presence of
their history.
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