Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden
Book description
Buffalo Bird Woman, a Hidatsa Indian born about 1839, was an expert gardener. Following centuries-old methods, she and the women of her family raised huge crops of corn, squash, beans, and sunflowers on the rich bottomlands of the Missouri River in what is now North Dakota. When she was young,…
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This book is full of information, but it is the personality of Buffalo Bird Woman (aka Waheenee, ca 1839-1932) that makes the reading so delightful. America’s best-known Native gardener was launched to fame by the Presbyterian minister and anthropology student Gilbert Wilson (1868-1930), whose extensive interviews of her and her family were incorporated into his dissertation, published as Agriculture of the Hidatsa: An Indian Interpretation.
Renamed and published in book form for posterity, this complete and detailed story of Hidatsa agriculture is historically instructive, and Buffalo Bird Woman’s occasional commentary on the social relations of the Hidatsa people adds…
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