- My little half sister was my usual playmate. She was two years younger than I, and I loved her dearly
- Grandfather sacred medicines
- A heavy wind blew the snow in our faces, nearly blinding us
- Buffalo grazing
- I put the weasel-skin cap on his head
- The first he put on my head; the second he handed to my sister, Cold Medicine
- Big Birds’ ceremony
- My father stabled his horses at night in our lodge, in a little corral fenced off against the wall
- Offering food before the shrine of the Big Birds’ ceremony
- He was crying lustily when my husband drew him out
- I was too well-bred to look up at him, but I did not always hurry to finish my sweeping
- When a man mourned he cut off his hair, painted his body with white clay
- Hidatsas burial scaffolds
- Victorio—an Apache Warrior
- Gardening
- The game was to see how many times she could be tossed without falling
- We also had a big, soft ball, stuffed with antelope hair, which we would bounce in the air with the foot
- I saw that the black-bear skin was bound to one of the posts at the entrance
- Harvesting
- Until I was about nine years old, my hair was cut short
- Kinship
- Our dogs dragged well-laden travois
- Sing louder cousin, sing louder, that I may hear you
- Drums on a summer's evening
- They ate it greedily. It did not seem to harm them
- The wild geese had come north, but this fact alone was not proof that winter had gone
- Two Wolves
- As the man sat in his lodge, there came a clap of thunder and lightning struck his roof, tearing a great hole
- Life in an Earth Lodge
- Bird C
- Bird B
- It had a long curved beak
- Bird A
- Winter Camp
- Bird F
- we women busied ourselves making bull boats
- Two braves
- Another method Broiling Meat
- To eke out our store of corn and keep the pot boiling, my father hunted much of the time
- Mountain Sheep
- We Hidatsas loved our good dogs, and were kind to them
- Fishes
- Indian Dogs
- Baby-like, I ran my fingers through the shiny grain, spilling a few kernels on the floor
- Turtle and her old-fashioned digging stick
- Hunters
- The harness was of two pieces - a collar, to go around the dog’s neck
- It was a great fish, a sturgeon
- Broiling Meat
- Red Blossom sat on the edge of her bed and finished her toilet
- They looked very terrible, all painted with the lower half of the face black
- Each dog dragged a travois loaded with wood
- Fawn
- An earthen pot full of water stood by one of the posts near the fire
- Learning to work
- Inside the lodge
- A watchers’ stage
- Picking June berries
- Dancing Figure
- The beds of the rest of the family stood in the back of the lodge, against the wall