Gilbert L Wilson: 2 books
Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden
Agriculture of the Hidatsa Indians
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
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, her...
Waheenee
An Indian Girl's Story
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
"I was born in an earth lodge by the mouth of the Knife River, in what is now North Dakota, three years after the smallpox winter." So begins the story of Waheenee, a Hidatsa Indian woman, born in 1839 amid a devastated tribe.
In 1906 Gilbert L. Wilson first visited the Fort Berthold...