Uses of Plants by the Hidatsas of the Northern Plains

by Gilbert Livingstone Wilson

In 1916 anthropologist Gilbert L. Wilson worked closely with Buffalobird-woman, a highly respected Hidatsa born 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803246749
• ISBN13: 9780803246744
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 476 Pages
• Weight: 1.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.2"