Uses of Plants by the Hidatsas of the Northern Plains
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Uses of Plants by the Hidatsas of the Northern Plains

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Uses of Plants by the Hidatsas of the Northern Plains

About this book

In 1916 anthropologist Gilbert L. Wilson worked closely with Buffalobird-woman, a highly respected Hidatsaborn in 1839 on the Fort Berthold Reservation in western North Dakota, for a study of the Hidatsas' uses of local plants. What resulted was a treasure trove of ethnobotanical information that was buried for more than seventy-five years in Wilson's archives, now held jointly by the Minnesota Historical Society and the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Wilson recorded Buffalobird-woman's insightful and vivid descriptions of how the nineteenth-century Hidatsa people had gathered, prepared, and used the plants and wood in their local environment for food, medicine, smoking, fiber, fuel, dye, toys, rituals, and construction.

From courtship rituals that took place while gathering Juneberries, to descriptions of how the women kept young boys from stealing wild plums as they prepared them for use, to recipes for preparing and cooking local plants, Uses of Plants by the Hidatsas of the Northern Plains provides valuable details of Hidatsa daily life during the nineteenth century.


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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction
  9. Editor’s Note
  10. 1. Plants That Are Eaten
  11. Domesticated plants
  12. Sunflowers
  13. Corn-smut
  14. Prairie turnips
  15. Jerusalem artichokes
  16. Hogpeanut
  17. Chokecherries
  18. Buffaloberries
  19. Gooseberries
  20. Black currants
  21. Wild grapes
  22. 2. Plants That Can Be Eaten
  23. Hawthorns
  24. Wild white onions
  25. Ball cactus
  26. 3. Plants That Are Sweet
  27. Juneberries
  28. White juneberries
  29. Wild plums
  30. Strawberries
  31. Roses
  32. Red raspberries
  33. Biscuitroot
  34. Nannyberries
  35. Purple prairie clover
  36. 4. Plants That Are Good to Chew
  37. Sticky gum
  38. Pine pitch
  39. 5. Plants That Smell Good
  40. Purple meadow-rue
  41. Blue giant hyssop
  42. Sweetgrass
  43. Wild bergamot
  44. Pine needles
  45. Perfumes used in beds
  46. Beaver musk
  47. 6. Plants That Have Medicinal Uses
  48. Big medicine
  49. White and red baneberry
  50. Gumweed
  51. Purple coneflower
  52. “Medicine in the woods”
  53. Poison ivy
  54. Unknown grass
  55. Peppermint
  56. 7. Plants Used for Fiber
  57. Dogbane
  58. Upright sedge
  59. Grasswork ornaments on leggings
  60. 8. Plants Used for Smoking
  61. Tobacco 9a
  62. Tobacco 9b
  63. Red-osier dogwood
  64. Bearberry
  65. Bearberry or kinnikinnick
  66. 9. Plants Used for Dye and Coloring
  67. Yellow owl’s-clover
  68. Water smartweed
  69. Dye plants—unidentified
  70. 10. Plants Used for Toys
  71. Umakixeke, or game of throwing sticks
  72. Popguns
  73. A toy horse
  74. Reed whistle
  75. 11. Plants Used for Utilitarian Purposes
  76. Cordgrass
  77. Buckbrush
  78. Cattails
  79. Boxelder
  80. Buffalograss
  81. Big bluestem
  82. Common rush
  83. Scouringrush horsetail
  84. Puffball
  85. Snakewood
  86. Goldenrod
  87. Prairie grasses as fodder
  88. 12. Plants Used for Rituals or with Ritual Significance
  89. The three kinds of sage
  90. Pasture sage 1
  91. Pasture sage 2
  92. Common sagewort
  93. Black sage
  94. Fringed sage
  95. Juniper (Cedar)
  96. Creeping juniper
  97. Prairie sandreed
  98. Bittersweet
  99. 13. Sources of Wood
  100. Wood as a resource
  101. Cottonwood
  102. Ash
  103. Peachleaf willow
  104. Sandbar willow
  105. Heart-leaved willow
  106. Quaking aspen
  107. American elm
  108. Water birch
  109. Boxelder
  110. 14. Uses of Wood
  111. Gathering firewood
  112. Digging-sticks
  113. Mortar and pestle
  114. Making a bullboat frame
  115. Making a wooden bowl
  116. Rakes (and the bison scapula hoe)
  117. Paddle for working clay pots (cottonwood bark)
  118. 15. Arrows
  119. Significance and utility
  120. Making arrows
  121. Types of arrows
  122. Bows
  123. Arrows for boys
  124. Mock battle with grass arrows
  125. 16. Earthlodges
  126. Building an earthlodge
  127. On Earthlodges (The observations of Hairy Coat and Not A Woman)
  128. Winter lodges and twin lodges
  129. The peaked or tipi-shaped hunting lodge
  130. The use of sod as an earthlodge covering
  131. Dismantling an old earthlodge
  132. Like-a-Fishhook Village and environs
  133. 17. Miscellaneous Material
  134. Basket making
  135. Native drinks of the Hidatsas
  136. How our meals were served
  137. Nettles
  138. Forest fire
  139. Conclusion
  140. Appendix: Frederick N. Wilson’s Comments
  141. Bibliography
  142. About the Authors