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Scene outside of the Medicine Lodge, where eight man are dancing the Buffalo Dance, to which they attribute the coming of the Buffalo to supply them with food. This grotesque dance takes place several ...

Many people are familiar with the Mandan through the journals of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, the explorers who spent six months wintering near the Nu'eta villages in the winter of 1805. The ...

All around the capital city lie signs of the people who knew Bismarck as home long before its official establishment 150 years ago. Visitors to Chief Looking’s Village above Pioneer Park in northwest ...

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 ...