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Buffalo Bird Woman (Maxidiwiac Waheenee) , 1839?-1932


Buffalo Bird Woman was a Hidatsa who experienced the traditional life of her people in what is now North Dakota. She was born around 1839. She learned and practiced all the traditional Hidatsa skills such as gardening, the preparation of food, weaving and many others. Buffalo Bird Woman held to the traditional ways of her culture and generously shared them through her stories and teachings. She was interviewed by Gilbert Wilson and this gave rise to the documenting the Hidatsa traditions. Through oral tradition she described her own experience and the lives and work and work of women in Hidatsa culture.

 

Books by Buffalo Bird Woman:

Buffalo Bird Woman. Agriculture of the Hidatsa Indians; an Indian interpretation / Buffalo Bird Woman's garden : agriculture of the Hidatsa Indians
St. Paul : Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1987.
Genre: Nonfiction
Description: 129 p., 10 p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Original edition published in 1917 and was part of the University of Minnesota's Studies in the social sciences series, no. 9. / 1987 edition includes a new introduction by Jeffrey R. Hanson. Notes : As told to Gilbert Livinstone Wilson, 1868-1930 Notes: "Maxidiwiac was the principal informant, and her account was taken down almost literally as translated by Goodbird." Waheenee, 1839-? Goodbird, Edward Hidatsa Indians--Agriculture Great Plains--Agriculture
ISBN: 0873512197 (pbk)
Buffalo Bird Woman. Buffalo Bird Woman's garden : agriculture of the Hidatsa Indians
St. Paul, MN : Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1987.
Genre: Nonfiction
Description: 129 p., [10] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm. Series: Borealis. Reprint. Originally published: Agriculture of the Hidatsa Indians. Minneapolis, 1917. Includes bibliographical references.
As told to Gilbert L. Wilson ; with a new introduction by Jeffery R. Hanson. Hidatsa Indians--Agriculture.
Audience: All Ages
ISBN: 0873512197
Buffalo Bird Woman. Waheenee, an Indian girl's story
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 1991.
Genre: Biography
Description: 189 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Introduction by Jeffrey R. Hanson Illustrated by Frederick N. Wilson Notes: First Bison book printing Notes: Reprint. Originally published : St. Paul : Webb Pub. Co., 1921. Waheenee, 1839-? Hidatsa Indians--Social life and customs Hidatsa Indians--Biography
ISBN: 0803247184 0803297033 (pbk)
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