BUFFALO BIRD WOMAN 1839-1929 (Maxidiwiac, Waheenee)

PERSONAL:

Indian names, Maxidiwiac and Waheenee; born 1839, in Sakakawea, Dakota Territory (now ND); died 1929, in Fort Berthold, ND; buried at Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, Fort Berthold, ND; daughter of Small Ankle (a Hidatsa Sioux chief) and Weahtee; married Magpie, c. 1857 (died, c. 1867); married Son of Star, c. 1868; children: (second marriage) Goodbird (son).

CAREER:

Hidatsa Sioux medicine woman.

WRITINGS:

(Under name Maxidiwiac; with Gilbert L. Wilson) Waheenee: An Indian Girl's Story (autobiography), Webb Publishing (St. Paul, MN), 1921, published (under name Waheenee) with new introduction by Jeffrey Hanson, illustrated by Frederick N. Wilson, University of Nebraska Press (Lincoln, NE), 1981.

(Under name Maxidiwiac; with Gilbert L. Wilson) Agriculture of the Hidatsa Indians, [Minneapolis, MN], 1917, published (under name Waheenee) as Agriculture of the Hidatsa Indians: An IndianInterpretation, AMS Press (New York, NY), 1979, published (under name Waheenee) with new introduction by Jeffery R. Hanson as Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden: Agriculture of the Hidatsa Indians, Minnesota Historical Society Press (St. Paul, MN), 1987.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

BOOKS

Gilman, Carolyn, and Mary Jane Schneider, The Way to Independence: Memories of a Hidatsa Indian Family, Minnesota Historical Society Press (St. Paul, MN), 1987.

Goodbird, Edward, and Gilbert L. Wilson, Goodbird the Indian: His Story, Webb Publishing (St. Paul, MN), 1921.*