Mitutanka

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George Catlin's The Last Race, Mandan O-kee-pa Ceremony. The village Indians on the Upper Missouri lived in towns of earth lodges like this. George Catlin - The Last Race, Mandan O-kee-pa Ceremony - Google Art Project.jpg
George Catlin's The Last Race, Mandan O-kee-pa Ceremony. The village Indians on the Upper Missouri lived in towns of earth lodges like this.

Mitutanka, also known as Mih-tutta-hang-kusch or Matootonah, was the lower Mandan village at the time of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. [1] At the time that Lewis and Clark visited the main chief was Sheheke. [2]

After a catastrophic smallpox epidemic, the Nuitadi Mandans of Good Boy moved north and later built Mitutanka at the confluence of the Knife River with the Missouri River. [3] Mitutanka was on the west Bank while the Ruptare town of Ruptare was on the east bank of the Missouri. [3]

References

  1. "November 1, 1804 | Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition".
  2. "November 1, 1804 | Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition".
  3. 1 2 Elizabeth Fenn: Encounters at the Heart of the World: a History of the Mandan People

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