Goodbird the Indian: His Story

Name: Goodbird the Indian: His Story
Author: Edward Goodbird

by Edward Goodbird, Gilbert Livingstone Wilson

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by MFR and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

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2018-01-10

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Public domain in the USA.

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Indians of North America -- Biography Goodbird, Edward, 1869-Hidatsa Indians -- Biography Hidatsa Indians -- Social life and customs E011

About the authors

Edward Goodbird

b. 1869

Born during a buffalo hunt near the mouth of the Yellowstone River, this Hidatsa writer and interpreter helped preserve important firsthand accounts of Hidatsa life, farming, and tradition. His voice also appears behind classic ethnographic works recorded with his mother, Buffalo Bird Woman.

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Gilbert Livingstone Wilson

1868–1930

An American ethnographer and Presbyterian minister, he is best remembered for recording the lives and knowledge of Hidatsa people, especially Buffalo Bird Woman and her family. His work helped preserve detailed accounts of Hidatsa agriculture, material culture, and everyday life.

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