KNIFE RIVER INDIAN VILLAGES NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE

TEACHER'S GUIDE

ILLUSTRATIONS:
Please use to make overhead transparencies.

Figure:
1...Earthlodges along the Knife River
2...Antler rake
3...Garden watcher's stage
4...Corn husking
5...Pounding corn with pestle and mortar
6...Burden basket
7...Cache pit
8...Buffalo hunt
9...Spoon and dishes of horn and shell
10...Tipi camp
11...Winter camp
12...Earthlodge diagram
13...Inside an earthlodge
14...Elders place in the earthlodge
15...Earthlodge shrine
16...Dog with a travois
17...Horse with a travois
18...Making a bull boat
19...Bull boats
20...Buffalo robe
21...Bladder bucket
22...Willow booth
23...Tossing with a blanket

MAPS:
**Regional map showing Knife River Indian Villages NHS
**Detail of Knife River Indian Villages NHS
**Detail of Big Hidatsa Village
**Trading relationships
**Movement of durable materials

Credits:
All maps and Figure 7 by permission of Dr. Stanley Ahler, from his book People of the Willows. The Prehistory and Early History of the Hidatsa Indians.

Figure 12 by permission of the American Museum of Natural History, NY,NY. From the publication Reprints in Anthropology, Volume 11: Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, Volume XXXIII, Part V, THE HIDATSA EARTHLODGE, by Gilbert Wilson.

All other illustrations were drawn by Frederick Wilson and found in the book Waheenee, by Gilbert Wilson. This publication is in public domain.

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