The Mandan were sharp traders, skilled gardeners, and practiced some of the most elaborate religious ceremonies of Northern Plains tribes. But they're perhaps best known to history as hosts of Lewis ...

MANDAN, N.D.-- A massive construction project is underway to stop erosion at an early Mandan Indian village, where hundreds of burial sites are at risk.Contractors with backhoes and earth movers are ...

Of the seven books, plays and pieces of music awarded Pulitzer Prizes in 2015, one book focused on the history of a people central to Dakotan history. Elizabeth Fenn 's "Encounters at the Heart of the ...

BISMARCK – After months of trying to recreate a North Dakota Indian village with his paintbrush in painstaking detail, Robert Evans said he has gained an appreciation for the Mandan people’s way of ...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - A large construction project is underway in central North Dakota to stop erosion at a historical Native American village where hundreds of burial sites are at risk. Contractors ...

With his words of welcome, Chief Sheheke invited the Corps of Discovery to winter near the Knife River Mandan villages, north of today’s Bismarck, North Dakota. French traders dubbed the chief “Big ...

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Cartoon No. 339. MANDANS ATTACKING a party of hostile Riccarrees, near the Mandan village. 1832. [P. 58; exhibited under heading: "Indian Manners and Customs."] Catalogue Descriptive and Instructive ...

An analogy can be drawn between the city of Mandan and the Indian tribe of the same name. Years ago, Mandan Indians established permanent villages while other American Indian tribes were nomadic.