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Excerpt from Like-a-Fishhook Village and Fort Berthold Garrison Reservoir, North Dakota: Anthropological Papers 2 Numerous studies of the village peoples of the upper Missouri afiord information on these groups during historic times Will and Hyde, 1917; Schulenberg, A brief account of the village by Bushnell (1922, pp. 147 - 150) contains a compilation of important source materials. Major monographs on the Mandan (will and Spinden, 1906; Bowers, 1950 and ms. Bruner, 1961 Wood, 1967) and on the Hidatsa (matthews, 1877; Wilson, 1917, 1924, and 1934; Bowers, present other essential historical matter, as does a r sum of Arikara history (wedel, 1955, pp. 77 Two recent studies bear directly on the history of the community, including its trading posts (shane, 1959; Dunn, Summaries of the present state of knowledge of both historic and prehistoric eras in the Northern Plains Wedel, 1961, pp. 156 - 209) provide still further background information. A map show ing the location of certain historic Indian vil lage sites and related 19th-century military and trading establishments in the region has been published by Wedel (1957, p. And there are other useful maps and historical references Mattison, The material culture of these sedentary villagers has interested many earlier students, and several detailed accounts of their re markable earth-and-timber dwellings, or earth lodges, were made while such dwellings were still in use Morgan, 1871, pp. 40 - 42, and 1881, pp. 125 - 130; Matthews, 1877, pp. 1 - 8, and When Gilbert L. Wilson began system atic ethnographic studies of the Hidatsa in 1908, he also gave special attention to this topic. At that time, seven Hidatsa earth lodges were still standing on the reservation, at sites other than like-a-fishhook Village. Wilson prepared detailed plans, drawings, and notes on the construction and use of certain of these habitations, with the assistance of his brother, Frederick N. Wilson (wilson, Thus an impressive body of ethnographic material exists for the Three Tribes. Though it was largely collected after the abandonment of the community, much of this record per tains to the period of residence of these peoples at like-a-fishhook Village. Important data, pertaining particularly to the Hidatsa, had been obtained at the village by Dr. Wash ington Matthews (1877) during his service in the region as assistant surgeon, us. Army. Dr. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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