Agriculture of the Hidatsa Indians: An Indian Interpretation (Also Known as Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden) (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press)

Buffalo Bird Woman (Maxi’diwiac Waheenee) (1839-1932) was a Hidatsa who experienced the traditional life of her people in what is now the Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota. 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. Through oral tradition she described her own experience and the lives and work of women in Hidatsa culture. Her works include: Agriculture of the Hidatsa Indians: An Indian Interpretation (1917) and Waheenee: An Indian Girl’s Story (1921).