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  2. Mandan - Wikipedia

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    Mandan food came from farming, hunting, gathering wild plants, and trade. Corn was the primary crop, and part of the surplus was traded with nomadic tribes for bison meat. [4] Mandan gardens were often located near river banks, where annual flooding would leave the most fertile soil, sometimes in locations miles from villages.

  3. Vietnamese language - Wikipedia

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    Vietnamese (tiếng Việt) is an Austroasiatic language spoken primarily in Vietnam where it is the official language. It belongs to the Vietic subgroup of the Austroasiatic language family. [5] Vietnamese is spoken natively by around 85 million people, [1] several times as many as the rest of the Austroasiatic family combined. [6]

  4. Vietnamese Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    The Vietnamese Wikipedia initially went online in November 2002, with a front page and an article about the Internet Society.The project received little attention and did not begin to receive significant contributions until it was "restarted" in October 2003 [3] and the newer, Unicode-capable MediaWiki software was installed soon after.

  5. Legends of the Condor Heroes: The Gallants - Wikipedia

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    The film is about the fictional martial artist Guo Jing during the Southern Song dynasty. [5]While war rages between the Mongols and the Jin Dynasty, Guo Jing searches for Huang Rong (Zhuang Dafei []), a woman he met during his two-year journey to the Central Plains to acquire martial arts skills from the Seven Freaks of Jiangnan.

  6. Encounters at the Heart of the World - Wikipedia

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    Fenn documents how this helped put the Mandan in a central political and economic position in the pre-contact world, despite the fact that the Mandan have typically entered the historical record only for their brief meeting with the Lewis and Clark Expedition in the winter of 1804–05, [4] due largely to George Catlin's sketches and paintings. [5]

  7. Mandan language - Wikipedia

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    Mandan was initially thought to be closely related to Hidatsa and Crow. However, since Mandan has had language contact with Hidatsa and Crow for many years, the exact relationship between Mandan and other Siouan languages (including Hidatsa and Crow) has been obscured and is currently undetermined. Thus, Mandan is most often considered to be a ...

  8. Montagnard (Vietnam) - Wikipedia

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    After Vietnam's Đổi Mới in 1986, due to ever-greater global capitalist demands of coffee and valuable metals, [53] larger waves of Vietnamese migration arrived in the Central Highlands and overwhelmed indigenous highlanders. The Vietnamese population of the region went from 500,000 to 1975, to 4 million today, outnumbering native ethnic ...

  9. Vietnamese ancestral house - Wikipedia

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    An ancestral house (Vietnamese: nhà thờ họ, chữ Nôm: 茹悇𢩜 or Vietnamese: từ đường, chữ Hán: 祠堂) is a Vietnamese traditional place of worship of a clan or its branches which established by male descendants of paternal line. This type of worship place is most commonly seen in northern Vietnam as well as middle Vietnam. [1]