A unique exploration of the Hidatsa people, material culture, spirituality, and adaptations, through the stories of respected elders from more than a century ago. In the 1910s, in the small Hidatsa settlement of Independence, North Dakota, Buffalo Bird Woman, her brother Wolf Chief, and her son Goodbird welcomed anthropologist Gilbert Wilson into their homes and shared stories and memories of Hidatsa life and traditions reaching back more than 65 years. With Goodbird acting as interpreter, Wilson carefully recorded ...
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A unique exploration of the Hidatsa people, material culture, spirituality, and adaptations, through the stories of respected elders from more than a century ago. In the 1910s, in the small Hidatsa settlement of Independence, North Dakota, Buffalo Bird Woman, her brother Wolf Chief, and her son Goodbird welcomed anthropologist Gilbert Wilson into their homes and shared stories and memories of Hidatsa life and traditions reaching back more than 65 years. With Goodbird acting as interpreter, Wilson carefully recorded their words, took photographs, and collected artifacts. Together, these stories and images provide a rare glimpse into the Hidatsa people and culture. The Way to Independence is a powerful and personal description of the Hidatsa people's journey from a traditional clan-oriented society of the 1840s to the industrialized, individualistic world of twentieth-century America. Through the words of Buffalo Bird Woman and her family, and using hundreds of stunning photographs of artworks and artifacts, this book tells the story of the tribe. Authors Carolyn Gilman and Mary Jane Schneider provide both text and illustrations to explore the material culture, spirituality, and adaptations of the Hidatsa people during a time of tremendous change. Throughout these years, the Hidatsa coped with these radical changes, but they never surrendered to them. They adopted many white political and religious institutions, but those institutions took on a Hidatsa flavor; similarly, they used the tools of the industrialized world, but they produced Hidatsa things with them. Thus the people found their way to a new kind of independence. In a separate section of the book, several experts on the Hidatsa contribute essays discussing the tribe's origins, religion, and natural environment, as well as the Hidatsa studies of Gilbert Wilson and his brother Frederick. This book, first published to accompany a major exhibition at the Minnesota Historical Society, continues to provide a vital story of a resilient and creative people.
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Fine. Book. 11h x 8 1/2w. A real nice clean 384 page first edition softcover with 1 low in number line. Has numerous black & white photos throughout with a full color 14 page section. A large catalog accompanied the 1989-1991 exhibit documenting the lives of three Hidatsa Indians-Buffalo Bird Woman, Wolf Chief, and Goodbird. The Hidatsa are a Siouan people affiliated with the Fort Berthold Reservation in northern North Dakota. Covers the time period during the centenary year of the Dawes Indian Severalty Act, one of the bleak landmarks in federal Indian policy. was to civilize the Indians.
