Waheenee, an Indian girl's story /

""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 Be...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Waheenee, 1839?-1932
Otros Autores: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone, 1868-1930
Formato: Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©1981.
Temas:
Waheenee, > 1839?-1932.
Waheenee, > 1839?-1932
Hidatsa Indians > Social life and customs.
Hidatsa Indians > Biography.
Hidatsa > Mœurs et coutumes.
Hidatsa > Biographies.
Hidatsa Indians.
United States > Upper Missouri Valley > Hidatsas > Social life, 1840-1860 - Personal observations
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • ch. 1. A little Indian girl
  • ch. 2. Winter camp
  • ch. 3. The buffalo-skin cap
  • ch. 4. Story telling
  • ch. 5. Life in an Earth lodge
  • ch. 6. Childhood games
  • ch. 7. Kinship, clan cousins
  • ch. 8. Indian dogs
  • ch. 9. Training a dog
  • ch. 10. Learning to work
  • ch. 11. Picking June berries
  • ch. 12. The corn husking
  • ch. 13. Marriage
  • ch. 14. A buffalo hunt
  • ch. 15. The hunting camp
  • ch. 16. Homeward bound
  • ch. 17. An Indian papoose
  • ch. 18. The voyage home
  • Glossary of Indian words
  • Explanatory notes
  • Supplements:
  • How to make and Indian camp
  • Hints to young campers
  • Indian cooking
  • Editor's note.

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