That spiral symbol represents bellyache which was one of the symptoms, early symptoms of smallpox. We know that they traded and rated with the mandan, but no account of such an outbreak exists among the mandan people. So where else can we look . The telltale evidence may well lie buried in ghost towns like double ditch. Remember, by 1600 or so the mandan at double ditch had ensconced themselves behind the 2nd fortification rate , the outermost ring that we can still see today. Now, at some point the villagers contracted again, taking shelter behind the innermost ditch and palisade the cause may well have been a smallpox epidemic of 1734 to 35. Double ditch in 1500 had contained a hundred and 60 homes, 2,000 people. By the mid1700sby the mid 17 hundreds there were just 32 homes and no more than 400 people. Hunkered down inside the smallest is that you see here. And then it happened again. 1781 smallpox made its way to the upper Missouri River from spanish settlements to the south. The p
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