ABSTRACT
In the mid-nineteenth century, Buffalo Bird Women of the Hidatsa tribe lived along a bend of the Missouri River named "Like a Fishhook". After the move out of Like-a-Fishhook Village in the 1880s, the people settled in various parts of the Fort Berthold Reservation that would become new communities. The demography of the reservation was also undergoing changes. From the time the people began to scatter over their allotments, for the Mandan's to locate south and west of the Missouri and for the Hidatsa's to concentrate near Elbowed and Shell Creek and to locate in smaller numbers elsewhere in company with the Mandan's. The Airfare people, a branch of the Side Pawnees, moved to the west side of the reservation. Besides Elbowed, considered by the US Government as the center of business for the reservation, there were other communities that were established: Independence, Shell Creek, Red Butte, Lucky Mound, to name a few.
