Recommended Reading

The Maximilian-Bodmer Expedition

  • Hunt, David C. and Marsha V. Gallagher, eds. Karl Bodmer’s America. Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, Durham Center for Western Studies in association with the University of Nebraska Press, 1984.
  • Jurovics, Toby, ed. Faces from the Interior: The North American Portraits of Karl Bodmer. Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, Durham Center for Western Studies, 2021.
  • Moreau, Mélanie, Didier Lévêque, and Thomas Busciglio-Ritter. Catlin et Bodmer, peintres de la frontière. La Rochelle, France: Musée du Nouveau Monde, 2023.

Nueta-Hidatsa-Sahnish (Mandan-Hidatsa-Arikara)

  • Ahler, Stanley A., Thomas D. Thiessen, and Michael K. Trimble. People of the Willows: The Prehistory and Early History of the Hidatsa Indians. Grand Forks, N.D.: University of North Dakota Press, 1991.
  • Barthelemy Jr, Michael. “Hushgah Adiish The Badlands Lodge: A Hidatsa Cultural Hub on the Upper-Missouri River in the Late Nineteenth Century.” MA Thesis, University of New Mexico, 2016. https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/hist_etds/4
  • Beckwith, Martha Warren. Myths and Ceremonies of the Mandan and Hidatsa. Poughkeepsie, N. Y: Vassar College, 1932.
  • Beckwith, Martha Warren. Mandan-Hidatsa Myths and Ceremonies. New York: The American Folk-Lore Society, 1937.
  • Bowers, Alfred W. Hidatsa Social and Ceremonial Organization. Repr. Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, 1992.
  • ———. Mandan Social and Ceremonial Organization. Repr. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004.
  • Buffalo Bird Woman. Buffalo Bird Woman’s Garden, as Told to Gilbert L. Wilson. Repr. St. Paul, Minn.: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1987.
  • [Buffalo-bird-woman] Waheenee. Waheenee: An Indian Girl’s Story Told by Herself to Gilbert L. Wilson. Repr. Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, 1981.
  • Fenn, Elizabeth A. Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People. New York: Hill and Wang, 2014.
  • Gilman, Carolyn, and Mary Jane Schneider. The Way to Independence: Memories of a Hidatsa Indian Family, 1840-1920. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Pr, 1987.
  • Gilmore, Melvin. Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region. Repr. Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, 1991.
  • Handy-Marchello, Barbara, and Fern E. Swenson. Traces: Early Peoples of North Dakota. Bismarck: State Historical Society of North Dakota, 2018.
  • Meyer, Roy Willard. The Village Indians of the Upper Missouri: The Mandans, Hidatsas, and Arikaras. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1977.
  • Mitchell, Mark D. Crafting History in the Northern Plains: A Political Economy of the Heart River Region, 1400–1750. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2013.
  • Nester, William. The Arikara War: The First Plains Indian War, 1823. Missoula, Mont.: Mountain Press Publishing Co., 2001.
  • Parks, Douglas R. Myths and Traditions of the Arikara Indians. Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, 1996.
  • Parks, Douglas R., A. Wesley Jones, and Robert C. Hollow, eds. Earth Lodge Tales from the Upper Missouri: Traditional Stories of the Arikara, Hidatsa, and Mandan. Bismarck, N.D.: University of Mary, 1978.
  • Peters, Virginia Bergmen. Women of the Earth Lodges: Tribal Life on the Plains. Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 2000.
  • Potter, Tracy. Sheheke, Mandan Indian Diplomat: The Story of White Coyote, Thomas Jefferson, and Lewis and Clark. Helena, Mont.: Farcountry Press and Fort Mandan Press, 2003.
  • Sacagawea Project Board of the Mandan, Hidatsa & Arikara Nation. Our Story of Eagle Woman: Sacagawea: They Got It Wrong. Orange, CA: Paragon Agency, 2021.
  • Trimble, Michael K. The 1837–1838 Smallpox Epidemic on the Upper Missouri. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994.
  • VanDevelder, Paul. Coyote Warrior: One Man, Three Tribes, and the Trial That Forged a Nation. New York: Little Brown, 2004.
  • Will, George F., and George E. Hyde. Corn among the Indians of the Upper Missouri. Repr. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1964.
  • Wilson, Gilbert Livingston. Uses of Plants by the Hidatsas of the Northern Plains. Edited by Michael Scullin. Lincoln & London: University of Nebraska Press, 2014.
  • Wood, W. Raymond, William J. Hunt Jr, and Randy H. Williams. Fort Clark and Its Indian Neighbors: A Trading Post on the Upper Missouri. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2016.