Mandan
Location: The homeland of the Mandan includes lands along
the Missouri, and Knife Rivers. They settled down in present day North
Dakota.Traditions: In the summer, a Mandan lodge
could contain anywhere from 10 to 30 people per lodge, and there were usually
120 lodges to a community. The Mandans would place their communities in a
defensive type of a position, so as to be protected by a natural boundary, such
as a river or bluff. When winter arrived the tribe would retreat to a place
that had trees, so that the trees would block the cold prairie winds, and to
have firewood for the long winter. The most important place in a Mandan village
was the ceremonial lodge.
Though this page has been carefully researched, the author does not
claim expertise on the Mandan.
Please send questions, comments, and corrections to emuseum@mnsu.edu and include the web address of this page.
If you are Mandan, your feedback is much appreciated.
Website of the Three Affiliated Tribes (Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara): http://www.mhanation.com/main/main.html
References:
- National Park Service, National Historic Site, Stanton, North
Dakota-"Knife River Indian Villages"
- www.nps.gov/knri/overview.htm February 19, 1999.
- "Lewis and Clark Expedition, Wintering with the Mandans"
- www.lewis-clark.org/journal_aug3-1804_more.htm February 19,
1999.
- "Mandan"
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