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Hidatsas Earth lodge

Hidatsas Earth lodge.jpg We were clad warmly, for the weather was chill. All had robesMiniaturesThey saw two great fires sweeping toward them over the prairieWe were clad warmly, for the weather was chill. All had robesMiniaturesThey saw two great fires sweeping toward them over the prairieWe were clad warmly, for the weather was chill. All had robesMiniaturesThey saw two great fires sweeping toward them over the prairieWe were clad warmly, for the weather was chill. All had robesMiniaturesThey saw two great fires sweeping toward them over the prairieWe were clad warmly, for the weather was chill. All had robesMiniaturesThey saw two great fires sweeping toward them over the prairieWe were clad warmly, for the weather was chill. All had robesMiniaturesThey saw two great fires sweeping toward them over the prairie

I was born in an earth lodge by the mouth of the Knife river, in what is now North Dakota, three years after the smallpox winter.

The Mandans and my tribe, the Hidatsas, had come years before from the Heart river; and they had built the Five Villages, as we called them, on the banks of the Knife, near the place where it enters the Missouri.