Video
Maxidiwiac
Description
This is the film shown in the Visitor Center theater at Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site. This moving account describes the life of the Mandan and Hidatsa tribes, as told by Buffalo-Bird Woman, one of the last Hidatsas born in the Knife River villages. Her story was recorded in the anthropological notes of Gilbert Wilson while he lived with the Hidatsa, Mandan, and Arikara in the early 1900s.
Audio Description and Closed Captions available.
Duration
14 minutes, 34 seconds
Credit
National Park Service
Date Created
05/01/1992
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