Research Catalog

Title

The way to independence : memories of a Hidatsa Indian family, 1840-1920 / Carolyn Gilman, Mary Jane Schneider ; with essays by W. Raymond Wood ... [et al.].

Author

Gilman, Carolyn, 1954-

Publication

St. Paul : Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1987.

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Details

Additional Authors

Schneider, Mary Jane.

Description

xii, 371 p. : ill. (some col.), maps, ports.; 29 cm.

Summary

"In 1886 a small group of Hidatsa Indian people left their earth lodges in Like-a-Fishhook Village on the Fort Berthold Reservation in western North Dakota. Pushed by U.S. government policies and pulled by new opportunities, they moved up the Missouri River and built homes on the reservation at an isolated spot they called Independence. About 20 years later, Gilbert L. Wilson, and anthropologist with an insatiable interest and an a tireless pencil, went to Independence to record information about traditional Hidatsa life. There three members of one family--Buffalo Bird Woman, her brother Wolf Chief, and her son Goodbird--agreed to tell him their stories. This book is based on the memories of Buffalo Bird Woman's family shared with Wilson and on the cultural artifacts that they sold him. It is a powerful and personal description of one family's journey from a traditional, clan-oriented society ot the industrialized, individualistic world of 20th-century America. Their stories speak for the thousands of other Indian families whose experiences were never recorded"--Book cover.

Series Statement

• Publications of the Minnesota Historical Society
• Museum exhibit series ; no. 3

Uniform Title

• Publications of the Minnesota Historical Society.
• Museum exhibit series ; no. 3.

Subject

• Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone, 1868-1930 > Ethnological collections > Exhibitions
• Geschichte 1840-1920
• Hidatsa Indians > Social life and customs > Exhibitions
• Hidatsa Indians > Social conditions > Exhibitions
• Indians of North America > Missouri River Valley > Social life and customs > Exhibitions
• Indians of North America > Missouri River Valley > Social conditions > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs
• Illustrated works.

Note

• Catalog of an exhibition consisting largely of artifacts from the collections of Gilbert L. Wilson, and organized by the Minnesota Historical Society.
• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. [353]-362.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / Nicholas Westbrook -- Introduction / Carolyn Gilman -- The way to independence / Carolyn Gilman and Mary Jane Schneider -- The Hidatsa word. Origins and settlements of the Hidatsa / W. Raymond Wood -- The Hidatsa religious experience / Gerard Baker -- The Hidatsa natural environment / Jeffery R. Hanson -- Contributions of the Wilsons to the study of the Hidatsa / Alan R. Woolworth -- A guide to the Wilson collections / Mary Jane Schneider.

ISBN

• 0873512189
• 087351209X (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^87011152^//r88

OCLC

• 15657245
• SCSB-10247437

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library