Hidatsa

Housing

• They used timber beams for their houses shaping.
• Because their house was so big, they had many people living in it.
• Until the reservation period, the Hidatsa lived in circular houses.

Traditions

• They had a Sun Dance and a Nax Pike ceremony tradition.

Food

• They didn't hunt mule deer, yet they hunted white-tailed deer.
• Did they cook or dry?
• The men hunted game, so the women stayed to raise crops.

Clothing

• While women wore short tights, men wore long tights.

Daily Life

• Although children had to learn the language of their mother, they still had to learn the alternate language.
• Women did not raise tabacco, nor did they trap Eagles.

General Info.

• They didn't have birth ceromonies, but they did have death ceromonies.
• Since the Hidatsa tribe merged with the Mandan's tribe, they inter married.

Extra Info.

• Whenever the smallpox hit, Hidatsa and Mandan's numbers dropped.
• Before the smallpox epidimic, the Hidatsa's were very independent.
• Since the Hidatsa and Mandan joined, their language was mixed and there were more people.