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Mandan

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Man·dan  (mndn)
n. pl. Mandan or Man·dans
1.
a. A Native American people formerly living in villages along the Missouri River in south-central North Dakota, with present-day descendants on Lake Sakakawea in west-central North Dakota.
b. A member of this people.
2. The Siouan language of the Mandan.
[French Mandane, probably from Dakota mawátana.]


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By his exertions, trading posts had been established, in 1808, in the Sioux country, and among the Aricara and Mandan tribes; and a principal one, under Mr.
Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington View in context
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