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CSPAN3 Elizabeth Fenn On Encounters At The Heart Of The World July 16, 2017

Thank you all for coming. It is a privilege to share this most american of stories with you. Some of you may feel disconcerted as you look at the title of my book. Because you are not quite sure who the mandan indians are. Familiarot have that , or comanche or seminole. But i want to put you at ease because in fact you do know about the mandan. And the reason you know about them is because, the explorers lewis and clark in their era of discovery, spent the winter of 1804 and 1805 among the mandan on the outbound portion of their famous transcontinental journey. Were earth dwellers and they lived on the Missouri River in the middle of what we now know as north dakota and they continue to live there to the present day. The mandan and their ancestors had made their homes at what they called the heart of the world, the confluence of the heart and Missouri Rivers since around the year 1300. The mandan occupied a distinctive ecological niche. They grew corn in tremendous quantities despite l

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CSPAN2 Book Discussion On Encounters At The Heart Of The World October 3, 2015

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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Top 10 for art in Chicago: Georgia O Keeffe to Art on the Mart

An unusual number of firsts are taking place in Chicago museums this summer, from older artists getting their due to emergent talents making their local debuts.

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May 24: Teachings of Our Elders - Getting Through Boarding School (Part One)

May 24: Teachings of Our Elders - Getting Through Boarding School (Part One)
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Getting Through Boarding School (Part One)

Getting Through Boarding School (Part One)
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