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Map 3. — Hidatsa village site 35 on the north bank of the Knife River. (Courtesy North 



Dakota Historical Society.) 



their old village 34 and removed to Rock Village, where Bears Arm's 

 maternal grandmother was born. According to Bears Arm, the village 

 group which we know as Hidatsa comprised both an agricultural and 

 nomadic population prior to 1782. The ratio of nomads to agricul- 

 turalists varied from season to season, Theu' principal headquarters 

 was on the north bank of Knife River (site 35) from which they ranged 



