The Mandan were sharp traders, skilled gardeners, and practiced some of the most elaborate religious ceremonies of Northern Plains tribes. But they're perhaps best known to history as hosts of Lewis ...

Of the seven books, plays and pieces of music awarded Pulitzer Prizes in 2015, one book focused on the history of a people central to Dakotan history. Elizabeth Fenn 's "Encounters at the Heart of the ...

Part I : Discovering the heart of the world. Migrations : the making of the Mandan people ; Contacts : villagers and newcomers ; Earthwork : the substances of daily life ; Connections : sustained ...

Edwin Benson stumbles through a few false starts before he catches his rhythm telling an old story about how a coyote turned into a buffalo. He sits on a stool draped with a woolly buffalo hide across ...

Chief of Police Earl Vredenburg estimated a minimum of 20,000 people lined the streets of Mandan on the Fourth to see the parade, led by Governor Fred Aandahl on a gorgeous prize-winning palomino ...