While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
Amahami (ama 'land', khami 'broken': mountainous
country). A former distinct
Siouan tribe, long since incorporated with the
Hidatsa; also the name of their Tillage. Along with the Hidasta they claimed
to have formerly constituted one tribe with the
Crows.
Their language, however, indicated closest affinity with the Hidatsa, differing
but slightly from it, although they occupied a separate village and long
maintained separate tribal organization. They were recognized as a distinct
tribe by Lewis and Clark in 1804, but had practically lost their identity 30
years later. In Lewis and Clark s time their village was at the mouth of Knife
r., N. Dak., and was one of three, the other two being Hidatsa, which for many
years stood on the banks of that stream. Their strength was estimated at 50
warriors. After the epidemic; of 1837 all or the greater part of the survivors
joined the Hidatsa and were merged with that tribe. Lewis and Clark state that
they had been a numerous and prosperous agricultural tribe which once divided
the upper Missouri valley, w. of the Dakota group, with the
Arikara,
Mandan, and Hidatsa, the remains of the old towns of these four tribes being
visible on every prairie terrace along the river for 600 miles. The remnants of
all four were found by Matthews (Ethnog. Hidatsa, 13, 1877) at Fort
Berthold, numbering fewer than 2,500.
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Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, Frederick Webb Hodge, 1906
