Hidatsa Tribe Research Paper

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The Hidatsa tribe is a tribe that lives in what is now North Dakota and is neighbors with the Mandans and the Shoshone tribe. The entire Hidatsa tribe is made up of three villages, and the total population of all the villages is 2,100 people (www.pbs.org). Out of all the tribes in the area, the Hidatsa are actually the most peaceful. In order to get food, the Hidatsa tribe would farm and have seasonal buffalo hunts, but would trade the crops for meat and other items. Both parents of the children would tell legends and stories, as it is a tradition in the Hidatsa tribe (www.bigorrin.org). Houses in the villages would mainly be earth lodges, which are houses made of wooden frames and dirt packed tightly together (www.pbs.org). The Hidatsa tribe is a small tribe that regularly interacts with other tribes and visitors such as Lewis and Clark. When the Hidatsa tribe would interact with other tribes, they would play sports and trade with them. One of the sports that the Hidatsa tribe played with other tribes was where two tribes went into a mini battle and are not permitted to hurt your opponent, and the winner gets rewards. One year when the Hidatsa won, they received a 12 year old girl named Sacagawea and brought her back to the villages (http://www.americaslibrary.gov). Sacagawea was then put on sale and bought by a French fur trader named Toussaint …show more content…

Due to the Corps of Discovery going to Hidatsa villages, it spread diseases that the Hidatsa were not immune to and wiped out the population (www.nationalgeographic.com). Other tribes such as the Mandan also caught the disease and all the tribes were forced to move, and arrived at where is now North Dakota. The Hidatsa tribe was a small tribe that interacted with the Corps of Discovery and were friendly toward them, and due to that, they lost most of their population with only a broken shard of the tribe

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