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Notes on the Social Organization and Customs of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Crow Indians (Volume 21, Pts. 1-5) - Brossura
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917. Excerpt: ... SOCIAL LIFE OF THE HIDATSA. Introduction. The Hidatsa (Minitari, Gros Ventre of the Missouri) form, with the closely related Crow Indians, a distinct branch of the Siouan family. They now reside on the Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota, which they share with the Mandan and Arikara. According to the census of 1910 they number 547. Before the smallpox epidemic of 1837 the Hidatsa were settled in three villages on the Knife River, which they occupied at least as early as 1796 and where they were visited by Lewis and Clark's expedition, by Catlin, and by Maximilian. By far the largest of these villages was that called Hira'tsa, which in Maximilian's day included over eighty earth-lodges; it was situated on the north bank, about three miles from the Missouri. Both the others were on the south side,--Awatixa'ati half a mile above the mouth of the Knife and Awaxa'wi at the embouchure. The former was made up of about forty, and the latter of eighteen earth-lodges. Maximilian estimated the total population at between 2,100 and 2,200.1 Tradition speaks of two additional sites, those of Xu'ra and Awati'd, which are referred to as constituting with the foregoing the "Five Villages." The Awaxa'wi language differed dialectically from that of the Hidatsa. proper. To illustrate this point Buffalo-bird-woman told the following story. An Awaxa'wi and an Hidatsa once went looking for buffalo. The Hidatsa said, "There's a bull." The Awaxa'wi answered, "awaka'ts," which meant "I see it" in his dialect2 but "It is a badger" in Hidatsa. The Hidatsa said, "No, it is not a badger." They had a dispute about it and soon came to blows. Owing to the ravages of the smallpox epidemic the three villages were consolidated into one, and accordingly it is impossible nowadays to ge...
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