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  • Fenn, Elizabeth A. (Elizabeth Anne), 1959- author.
     
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    Encounters at the heart of the world : a history of the Mandan people / Elizabeth A. Fenn.
    by Fenn, Elizabeth A. (Elizabeth Anne), 1959- author.
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  • Mandan Indians -- History.
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  • Mandan Indians -- Government relations.
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  • Mandan Indians -- Social life and customs.
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  • Award winning title
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  • Pulitzer Prize
  • ISBN: 
    0374535116
    9780374535117
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    xix, 456 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
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    First paperback edition.
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    Part I : Discovering the heart of the world. Migrations : the making of the Mandan people ; Contacts : villagers and newcomers ; Earthwork : the substance of daily life ; Connections : sustained European contact begins -- Part II : Inventions and reinventions. Customs : the spirits of daily life ; Upheavals : eighteenth-century transformations ; Scourge : the smallpox of 1781 -- Part III : At the heart of many worlds. Convergences : forces beyond the horizon ; Hosts : the Mandans receive Lewis and Clark ; Corn : the fuel of plains commerce -- Part IV : New adversities. Sheheke : the metamorphosis of a chief ; Reorientation : the United States and the upper Missouri ; Visitations : rats, steamboats, and the Sioux ; Decimation : "the smallpox has broke out".
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