Hidatsa Social and Ceremonial Organization. (book reviews)

While conducting research on the Fort Berthold reservation, I once discussed aspects of ceremonial transmission of knowledge with a descendant of Bear Arms, Bowers's main consultant. Perplexed by one of the questions we raised, she retreated into another room and emerged several minutes later clutching a dusty copy of Bowers' 1965 Hidatsa Social and Ceremonial Organization under one arm.

It was within that thread-bare binding, she insisted, that we would find the information we sought. Later, I would part with my own tattered copy of the much in demand, but previously unobtainable, ...

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