Hidatsa

Hidatsa er en nordamerikansk indianerstamme i Fort Berthold reservatet i North Dakota. Reservatet ligger i stammens traditionelle territorium,^[1]:113 og det er samtidig reservat for mandanerne og arikaraerne. Alle tre stammer var fælles om at bo i byer af jordhytter og dyrke jorden i floddale tæt på Missouri River gennem århundreder.^[1]:xi Indianerne i Fort Berthold reservatet omtales under ét som ”De tre stammer” (”Three Affiliated Tribes”).^[2]:viii

Andre 1800-tals navne for hidatsaerne er ”gros ventre of the Missouri”,^[1]:273 ”minnetaree” og variationer deraf^[3]:180 samt (sjældent) ”herantsa”.^[4]:36

Hidatsaernes sprog rubriceres som et siouansk sprog.^[5]:vi

1. ^ ^{a b c} Meyer, Roy W.: The Village Indians on the Upper Missouri. The Mandans, Hidatsas and Arikaras. Lincoln and London, 1977.
2. ^ Gilman, Carolyn and Mary Jane Schneider: The Way to Independence. Memories of a Hidatsa Indian Family, 1840-1920. St. Paul, 1987.
3. ^ Maximilian zu Wied, Prince: People of the First Man. Life Among the Plains Indians in Their Final Days of Glory. The Firsthand Account of Prince Maximilian’s Expedition up the Missouri River, 1833-34. New York, 1976.
4. ^ Kurz, Rudolph Friederich: Journal of Rudolph Friederich Kurz. An Account of His Experiences Among Fur Traders and American Indians on the Mississippi and the Upper Missouri Rivers During the Years 1846 to 1852. Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Bulletin 115. Washington, 1937.
5. ^ Wilson, Gilbert L.: Waheenee. An Indian Girl’s Story told by herself to Gilbert L. Wilson. Lincoln and London, 1981.