This that I now tell is as I saw my mothers do, or did myself, when I was young. My mothers were industrious women, and our family had always good crops; and I will tell now how the women of my father's family cared for their fields, as I saw them, and helped them. --Buffalo Bird Woman

A survey of Native American earthlodge research from across the Great Plains. This collection explores current research in the ethnography and archaeology of Plains earthlodges, and considers a variety of Plains tribes, including the Mandan, Hidatsa, Cheyenne, and their late prehistoric period predecessors.

Originally published: North Haven: Archon Books, 1995.