"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.
He returned in 1908, sponsored by the American Museum of Natural History, and for every summer of the next ten years he worked am.
Wilson first visited the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation and began to study the remnants of the Hidatsa tribe.
In 1906 Gilbert L. "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