Martin Bear's Arm
Hidatsa artist
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| Intro | Hidatsa artist | |
| is | Artist Historian | |
| Work field | Arts Social science | |
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| Birth | 1864, Like-a-Fishhook Village, North Dakota, USA | |
| Residence | Like-a-Fishhook Village, North Dakota, USA |
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Martin Bear's Arm (born c. 1864) was a tribal historian of the Hidatsa (Gros Ventres) tribe. He was born in and lived for a time in Like-a-Fishhook Village on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in central North Dakota. Bear's Arm was an artist particularly known for a pictographic chart of Like-a-Fishhook Village, as it was before the village was abandoned in the 1880s. His work is in the collection of the State Historical Society of North Dakota.