Hidatsa

The second piece of art that I choose, was when I first walked in to the museum and enter the main gallery / central gallery on the first floor of the Trickster Art Gallery it was display like painting. But, when in fact it was not a panting, but a Buffalo hide stretched out on a wooden frame, as it was traditionally for the hide to be stretched out, and hung on a wooden frame to be displayed in the tribe of the plain Indians. Also, as the buffalo was very important to plain Indians and was key…

the intersection of kinship, the informal economy, ceremonial exchanges of goods, government assistance programs, and the cash economy on the reservation, Ft. Berthold, which is home to the Three Affiliated Tribes, the Mandan, the Arikara and the Hidatsa, in North Dakota the three tribes settled there in the 1860’s.…

In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson guided a tact through the U.S. Senate: the purchase of Louisiana region from France. After the Louisiana Purchase a treaty was made where Jefferson started an investigation of the recently obtained land and the domain past the "rocky mountains" in the West. Jefferson’s main vision and wish was to make a new America that commanded the trade routes from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. With so doing this forced England, France, and Spain out of North…

Today is the day we travel on the trail to the Pacific Ocean. Meriwether Lewis is the leader of this expedition and William Clark is his companion on the expedition. Thomas Jefferson wanted them to find a trail that leads to the Pacific Ocean. On May 21, 1804 we started our journey. We traveled to the Louisiana territory. On our journey we came across some coyotes. They are so beautiful, they have grizzled gray or orangish gray above with buff underparts. They have long rusty or yellowish…

We start in the time period of about 1803, this is all how the notorious adventure begins. Thomas Jefferson president at the time had an interest in the Louisiana territory owned by the French so with the help of the U.S. Senate he purchases it. Which is known today as the Louisiana Purchase. After Jefferson discussed exploring the New Land beyond the “great rock mountains” he appointed his personal secretary Meriwether Lewis to voyage to the ocean. Lewis asked for help on this trip by a man…

Culture is the most influential part of a human’s life and decisions. A Native American author that is greatly affected by his culture is Sherman Alexie. This is shown in his books The Absolute True Diary Of A Part Time Indian, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, and Indian Killer. ("Sherman Alexie." Authors) Many of Sherman Alexie’s books are made from real life events that happened to him. Sherman Alexie was born Oct. 07, 1966 in Wellpinit, Washington, to the parents of Sherman…

other people and people from other Indian communities. There were many Native nations live in that place. However different nations have different reaction about the new comers. Some of the nation treat American as their friend, like the Mandan and Hidatsa glade the corps of discovery can come to their village to help them develop their village. In contrast, some of the Natives sees the coming of the Lewis and as…

deciphering languages which is very helpful in a long expedition, when you never know who you’re going to meet. Now, these languages weren’t Spanish or Italian, “Sacagawea, referred to in the expedition's journals as Charbonneau’s wife, spoke both Hidatsa and Shoshone. This permitted her meld into the mission” (McCoy, B. Ron). On the expedition, they met many tribes with contrasting languages, if it wasn’t for her, Lewis and Clark couldn’t have communicated and could’ve been endangered. Not only…

Fire and The Magic and Tragic Year of My Broken Thumb, sequels to The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Anonymous 35). Alexie lives in Seattle, Washington with his wife Diane, who is of Hidatsa, Ho Chunk, and Pottawatomi descent, and two sons (Chadwyck-Healey 6; Cline…

Agaidika (Salmon Eaters) tribe. She was the daughter of the Shoshone chief. The hardest time period in her life was at the age of twelve. She was scared considering, her age when she was kidnapped by her people’s great enemy of her people known as the Hidatsa Indians. But it was not just her couple of other girls from her tribe were also captured. It was just that Sacagawea stood out from the other girls in her tribe. When she was about thirteen, she was taken by Toussaint Charbonneau, the…