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About the Mandan: Villages were at center of vast trade network

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 ...
The Bismarck Tribune

Mandan tribe settled vast villages at present-day Bismarck; remains part of community

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 Bismarck Tribune

Pioneer name may be dropped from Ward Village

For years, a Mandan Indian village in northwest Bismarck hasn't had an Indian name. It has been known as Ward Village, now on Registry of National Historic Places, because of the Wards, a white ...
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Distant View of the Mandan Village

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Seattle Times

Historic images of Native Americans by a Swiss artist find their way back to North Dakota

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — More than two dozen historic prints that depict a slice of Native American life and culture on the Upper Missouri River nearly 200 years ago will soon be more accessible to the ...
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Mandans attacking a Party of Hostile Riccarrees, near the Mandan Village, (painting)

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 ...