What is "mandan"

Usage examples of "mandan".

Mandans and Manitaries have not, by any means, so many dogs as the Assiniboin, Crows, and Blackfeet.

Before us lay a flight of some two thousand miles across the Mandan Ocean from Auris to Kapara.

They make Native Americans invisible, implying that the United States bought vacant land from the French, Although the Mandans hosted the expedition during the winter of 1804-05 and the Clatsops did so the next winter, even these tribes drop out.

He has a notion of arranging to visit the Mandans after the two of you finally leave here, so he can compare their culture with the Skidi Pawnee.

Mandan youths hanging above the ground from cords skewered to their shoulders, backs, and nipples, the groans and grimaces of the audience were ecstatic.

When we arrived at the canoes, they all eagerly saluted the Mandan chief, and we all sat and smoked several pipes.

Among the, Nadowessies or Dahcotahs, the subdivision has been still greater, the same original tribe having given birth to the Konsas, the Mandans, the Tetons, the Yangtongs, Sassitongs, Ollah-Gallahs, the Siones, the Wallah Wallahs, the Cayuses, the Black-feet, and lastly the Winnebagoes.

Down the rivers, o'er the prairies, Came the warriors of the nations, Came the Delawares and Mohawks, Came the Choctaws and Camanches, Came the Shoshonies and Blackfeet, Came the Pawnees and Omahas, Came the Mandans and Dacotahs, Came the Hurons and Ojibways, All the warriors drawn together By the signal of the Peace-Pipe, To the Mountains of the Prairie, To the great Red Pipe-stone Quarry, And they stood there on the meadow, With their weapons and their war-gear, Painted like the leaves of Autumn, Painted like the sky of morning, Wildly glaring at each other.

This explanation is confirmed by the fact that in the legends of the Iowa Indians, who were a branch of the Dakotas, or Sioux Indians, and relatives of the Mandans (according to Major James W.

A variety of other presents were distributed, but none seemed to give them more satisfaction than an iron corn-mill which we gave to the Mandans.

Anthony Tabeau, informing us of the peaceable dispositions of that nation toward the Mandans and Minnetarees, and their avowed intentions of pursuing our counsels and advice.

Air passes through the blanket, but Mandan is the only known substance that insulates against the effects of a changewind.

Among the Mandan Indians we not only find flood legends, but, more remarkable still, we find an 'image of the ark preserved' from generation to generation, and a religious ceremony performed which refers plainly to the destruction of Atlantis, and to the arrival of one of those who escaped from the Flood, bringing the dreadful tidings of the disaster.

The Mandans celebrated their great religious festival above described in the season when the willow is first in leaf, and a dove is mixed up in the ceremonies.

All this is the information of Toone (Is a Whippoorwill), the chief of the Arikaras, who accompanied us to the Mandans.