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The Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site is located in central North Dakota, at the confluence of the Knife River with the Missouri River.The village is located ½ mile north of present-day Stanton, North Dakota, 1 hour north west of Bismarck, and 1 ½ hours south west of Minot, North Dakota.
Mandan earth lodge, photographed by Edward S. Curtis, circa 1908 Snow scene of a modern reconstructed earth lodge at the Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site, North Dakota The Mandan were known for their distinctive, large, circular earthen lodges, in which more than one family lived.
“Big Hidatsa Village Site” , National Park Service Journal of Lewis and Clark, Retrieved 2012-11-18 “Knife River Description” , North Dakota Water Science Center, Retrieved 2012-11-18; Knife River Indian Villages, “History and Culture” , National Park Service, Retrieved 2012-11-18
Former fortified village of the Mandan, on the bank of Lake Oahe. Archaeological site, now a state park open to the public. 6: Lynch Knife River Flint Quarry: Lynch Knife River Flint Quarry: July 13, 2011 : near Dunn Center
The Hidatsa hunted upstream from the earthlodge villages at and below the Knife River. Here, between the Knife and Yellowstone River (Mii Ciiri Aashi /Mi'cíiriaashish), they were numerous enough to withstand attacks of the Assiniboine (Hidusidi / Hirushíiri), who hunted in the area but rarely wintered on the Missouri River, as part of the ...
The Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation (MHA Nation), also known as the Three Affiliated Tribes (Mandan: Miiti Naamni; Hidatsa: Awadi Aguraawi; Arikara: ačitaanu' táWIt), is a federally recognized Native American Nation resulting from the alliance of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara peoples, whose Indigenous lands ranged across the Missouri River basin extending from present day North Dakota ...
It was one of six Mandan villages on the west riverbank between the Knife and Cannonball Rivers. [11] The credit for the city's incorporated name is a point of debate. John Andrew Rea arrived across the river in Bismarck in 1876 to serve as temporary editor of its newspaper during one of its founder's extended absences. Rea subsequently served ...
Mitutanka (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 ...