Bodéwadmi
Bodéwadmi is a term used in some sources to refer to a Native American people of the upper Missouri River region, associated with the Hidatsa. The term is often linked to the group known today as the Hidatsa, a Siouan-speaking people who historically inhabited the river valley in present-day North Dakota. The Bodéwadmi lived in earth lodges along rivers and practiced agriculture, cultivating maize, beans, and squash, complementing buffalo hunting. They were part of the broader Hidatsa-Mandan-Arikara cultural complex and, in the 18th and 19th centuries, formed a political and economic alliance with neighboring groups; this alliance later became known as the Three Affiliated Tribes on the Fort Berthold Reservation.
The language spoken by the Bodéwadmi is Hidatsa, a Siouan language closely related to Mandan, with modern
Today, individuals identifying as Bodéwadmi are generally enrolled in tribal governments that descend from the Three