Waheenee: An Indian Girl's Story (Revised)

by Gilbert Livingstone Waheenee and Gilbert Livingstone Wilson

Book Overview

"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 Indian Reservation and began to study the remnants of the Hidatsa tribe. He returned in 1908, sponsored by the American Museum of Natural History, and for every...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803297033
• ISBN13: 9780803297036
• Release Date: November 1981
• Publisher: Bison Books
• Length: 189 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

Magnificent

This is a magificent story for those who wish to understand Native culture, it ranks withPretty-Shield or Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman as a book that is the next best thing to actually speaking with someone from that time and culture. Would that all books on this area were as good.