List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Editor''s Note Abbreviations: BBW=Buffalobird-woman; PW=Poor Wolf; GB=Goodbird; SW=Sioux Woman; GLW=Gilbert Wilson; WC=Wolf Chief; MS=Michael Scullin 1. Plants That Are Eaten Domesticated plants (MS) Sunflowers (BBW) Corn-smut (BBW) Prairie turnips (BBW) Jerusalem artichokes (BBW) Hogpeanut (BBW, WC, GB) Chokecherries (BBW) Making stone hammers (BBW) Buffaloberries (BBW) Gooseberries (BBW) Black currants (BBW) Wild grapes (BBW) 2. Plants That Can Be Eaten Hawthorns (BBW) Wild white onions (BBW) Ball cactus (BBW, WC) 3. Plants That Are Sweet Juneberries (BBW) White juneberries (BBW) Wild plums (BBW) Strawberries (BBW) Roses (BBW) Red raspberries (BBW, SW, GB) Biscuitroot (BBW) Nannyberries (BBW) Purple prairie clover (BBW) 4. Plants That Are Good to Chew Sticky gum (BBW) Pine pitch (BBW) 5. Plants That Smell Good Purple meadow-rue (BBW) Blue giant hyssop (BBW) Sweetgrass (BBW) Wild bergamot (BBW) Pine needles (BBW) Perfumes used in beds (BBW) Beaver musk (BBW) 6. Plants That Have Medicinal Uses Big medicine (BBW) White and red baneberry (BBW) Gumweed (WC) Purple coneflower (WC) "Medicine in the woods" (BBW) Poison ivy (BBW) Unknown grass (BBW, GB) Peppermint (BBW) 7. Plants Used for Fiber Dogbane (WC) Upright sedge (BBW) Grasswork ornaments on leggings (Isokikuas) 8.

Plants Used for Smoking Tobacco 9a (BBW) Tobacco 9b (WC) Red-osier dogwood (BBW) Bearberry (BBW) Bearberry or kinnikinnick (WC) 9. Plants Used for Dye and Coloring Yellow owl''s-clover (BBW) Water smartweed (BBW) Dye plants--unidentified (BBW) 10. Plants Used for Toys Umakixeke, or game of throwing sticks (BBW, GB) Popguns (BBW) A toy horse Reed whistle (GB) 11. Plants Used for Utilitarian Purposes Cordgrass (BBW) Buckbrush (BBW) Cattails (BBW) Box elder (BBW) Buffalograss (BBW) Big bluestem (WC) Common rush (BBW) Scouringrush horsetail (WC) Puffball (BBW) Snakewood (BBW, WC) Goldenrod (BBW) Prairie grasses as fodder (WC) 12. Plants Used for Rituals or with Ritual Significance The three kinds of sage (WC) Pasture sage 1 (BBW, GB) Pasture sage 2 (BBW, WC) Common sagewort (BBW, WC, GB) Black sage (BBW, WC) Fringed sage (PW) Juniper (Cedar) (BBW, WC, GB) Creeping juniper (BBW, GB) Prairie sandreed (WC) Bittersweet (WC) 13. Sources of Wood Wood as a resource (MS) Cottonwood (WC) Ash (BBW) Peachleaf willow (BBW) Sandbar willow (BBW, WC, GB) Heart-leaved willow (BBW) Quaking aspen (BBW) American elm (BBW) Water birch (BBW) Box elder (BBW) 14. Uses of Wood Gathering firewood (WC) Digging-sticks (BBW, WC) Mortar and pestle (BBW) Making a bullboat frame (BBW) Making a wooden bowl (WC) Rakes (and the bison scapula hoe) (BBW, WC) Paddle for working clay pots (cottonwood bark) (GLW) 15. Arrows Significance and utility (MS) Making arrows (WC) Types of arrows (WC) Bows (WC) Arrows for boys (BBW, GB) Mock battle with grass arrows (WC) 16.

Earthlodges Building an earthlodge (BBW) On earthlodges (The observations of Hairy Coat and Not A Woman) Winter lodges and twin lodges (BBW) The peaked or tipi-shaped hunting lodge (BBW) The use of sod as an earthlodge covering Dismantling an old earthlodge (BBW) Like-a-Fishhook Village and environs (WC) 17. Miscellaneous Material Basket making (BBW) Native drinks of the Hidatsas (BBW) How our meals were served (GB) Nettles (BBW) Forest fire (GLW) Conclusion Appendix: Frederick N. Wilson''s Comments on "The Hidatsa Earthlodge" Bibliography.