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| A picture of the real Buffalo Bird Woman. |
This story was vastly different from
Love Medicine. While that story was told from multiple perspectives. This story was told straight from the point of view of Buffaloe Bird Woman. At first, I thought it was a little silly for a college student to be reading a children's book. That being said approached this book with an open mind. I found that reading this girl's narrative of how her people hunted and preserved food was very interesting. I wasn't aware that Native Americans preserved their dried food underground. The description of a Hidatsa warrior having his horse shot out from under him was thrilling. Then to see that he still managed to kill a Lakota warrior was very impressive. I know you can't take everything this book says as gospel but I think it does a fair job of describing the Hidatsa way of life.
The ending of the book is rather sad. The way she describes that he way of life is gone forever had me contemplating how many Native American cultures have been lost to the coming of the white man.
One thing you'll note as we continue, Travis, is that the literature asserts the very presence and persistence of Native Peoples and their culture. So keep that in mind. They're still here! It's also important to remember the trials they've been through, as you note here.
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