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Baker was born and raised on Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota. He has two brothers and a sister. His mother was Hidatsa, and his father, Paige Baker Sr., was Mandan and Hidatsa; Baker speaks the Hidatsa language. His Hidatsa language name is Zaa-sha-shee-dish (Yellow Wolf).
Gerard Baker, a full blood member of the Mandan-Hidatsa tribe and the highest ranking American Indian in National Park Service (NPS) history, is a familiar face on American Public Television. He appeared prominently in the Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan’s film The National Parks: America’s Best Idea.
Gerard A. Baker, Ph.D., is the Superintendent of Mount Rushmore National Memorial. He has been with the federal government for 27 years; 24 years with the National Park Service and 3 years with the United States Forest Service. Dr. Baker is a full-blood member of the Mandan-Hidatsa Tribe of the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, Mandaree, North ...
Oct 6, 2023 · Gerard Baker, an elder from the Mandan-Hidatsa tribes, shared in a new PBS documentary film on the American bison, “When you look at a buffalo you just don’t see a big shaggy beast. You see...
Sep 23, 2011 · Former park superintendent Gerard Baker, a Mandan-Hidatsa originally from Mandaree, N.D. on the Fort Berthold reservation, envisioned and brought to fruition Heritage Village during his over 30-year quest to incorporate noticeably absent Native American themes and elements into America’s national parks.
Nov 23, 2023 · For Gerard Baker, a Mandan-Hidatsa from North Dakota, the buffalo is “a symbol of our existence and the symbol of our difficulties,” but it can become a symbol of so much more. “When you...
15 listed. “As the elders said, Lewis and Clark were no big deal, but we knew how to be diplomats from earlier encounters, and we knew the value of trade, and I think we understood that the expedition was just the continuation of many maashe’s (white men) to come.”—Gerard Baker, Mandan-Hidatsa, 2006.
