Mandan

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• PHOTO (COLOR): In 1832, artist George Catlin painted Mandan Indians hurling staffs or spears at a rolling stone while playing a game.

  Academic text (2009)

• Veronica Bell Serdahl is Mandan/Hidatsa.

  Fiction book (2000)

• He ended up living the winter with the Mandan tribe.

  Blog text (9)

• This was a powerful that's intense, powerful religious ceremony of the Mandan people called Okipa.

• Lewis and Clark spent the winter of 1804-1805 near Hidatsa and Mandan villages along the upper Missouri River in what is now North Dakota.

  Academic text (1992)

• 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)

• The Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara only tell stories in the winter because in the summer they are working, preserving food, collecting medicines, and having ceremonies to get ready for the North Dakota winter.

  Fiction book (2001)

• (The Mandan tribe, along the shores of the Missouri River, was pretty much wiped out by smallpox in the 1800s, but apparently had many members with blue eyes.)

  Blog text (14)

• Early for Trade on the Northern Plains: Canadian Traders Among the Mandan and Hidatsa Indians, 1738-1818. Wood and Thiessen, eds. (D. R. Miller) 11(3):269.

  Academic text (1992)

• Today, a plank structure called the "big canoe" stands in the central plaza of a Mandan village.

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