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Mandan

Mandan

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A city in central North Dakota on the east bank of the Missouri River and county seat of Morton County
  • proper noun
  • /ˈmændən/
: Mandan
  • Their metaphorical term for change, "buffalo commons," has now become an honored name for a regional chamber music society, a storytelling festival in McCook, Nebraska, a birding safari company in Mandan, North Dakota, and an adult outreach program at the University of North Dakota.
  • Mandan, North Dakota

Examples

  • Soil in ecosystems represented by the Mandan site was storing 1 million metric tons of carbon each year; the Woodward site, 2 million; and the Temple site, 6 million.

    Academic text (2002)
  • I am Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, and Muscogee (Creek).

    Fiction book (2001)
  • Of the 11 sites in the network, the first 3 to report were those in Mandan, North Dakota; Woodward, Oklahoma.

    Academic text (2002)
  • I've worn my Hawks sweater plenty of places, including Mandan, ND (named after the Mandan Indians!), and no one has ever said a thing to me.

    Blog text (32)
  • Albert B. Frank, an ARS plant physiologist at Mandan, says he has found that properly grazed lands can store as much carbon as lands that are never grazed.

    Academic text (2002)
  • "Dynamic agricultural systems" is what Jon Hanson, research leader at the ARS Northern Great Plains Research Laboratory in Mandan, North Dakota, calls the new farming approach that's based on research he and colleagues have done.

    Academic text (2005)
  • Ron Follett, at Fort Collins, Colorado, is working with Vogel and ARS scientists at Mandan, North Dakota, to study carbon storage on lands grown for biofuel crops.

    Academic text (2002)
  • All right, you are looking at Mandan, North Dakota.

  • Gordon said she has projects scheduled in Mandan, so she is waiting for the initiative to be approved by the city commission.

  • So after breakfast, in light rain outside of Mandan, he parked at a rest area and pulled on his raincoat.

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Etymology

Mandan is named after a Native American people who lived along the Missouri River, and the North Dakota city was given that name to honor the tribe, so the place name reminds you of the people who lived there.