@article{718245, author = {Wilson, Gilbert Livingston, and Scullin, Michael,}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/718245}, title = {Uses of plants by the Hidatsas of the northern plains /}, abstract = {In 1916 anthropologist Gilbert L. Wilson worked closely with Buffalobird-woman, a highly respected Hidatsa born in 1839 on the Fort Berthold Reservation in western North Dakota, for a study of the Hidatsas' uses of local plants. What resulted was a treasure trove of ethnobotanical information that was buried for more than seventy-five years in Wilson's archives, now held jointly by the Minnesota Historical Society and the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Wilson recorded Buffalobird-woman's insightful and vivid descriptions of how the nineteenth-century Hidatsa people had.}, recid = {718245}, pages = {1 online resource (475 pages) :}, }