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Encounters at the heart of the world : a history of the mandan people, Elizabeth A. Fenn
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- Summary
- "A book that radically changes our understanding of North America before and after the arrival of Europeans Encounters at the Heart of the World concerns the Mandan Indians, iconic Plains people whose teeming, busy towns on the upper Missouri River were for centuries at the center of the North American universe. We know of them mostly because Lewis and Clark spent the winter of 1804-1805 with them, but why don't we know more? Who were they really? In this extraordinary book, Elizabeth A. Fenn retrieves their history by piecing together important new discoveries in archaeology, anthropology, geology, climatology, epidemiology, and nutritional science. Her boldly original interpretation of these diverse research findings offers us a new perspective on early American history, a new interpretation of the American past. By 1500, more than twelve thousand Mandans were established on the northern Plains, and their commercial prowess, agricultural skills, and reputation for hospitality became famous. Recent archaeological discoveries show how they thrived, and then how they collapsed. The damage wrought by imported diseases like smallpox and the havoc caused by the arrival of horses and steamboats were tragic for the Mandans, yet, as Fenn makes clear, their sense of themselves as a people with distinctive traditions endured. A riveting account of Mandan history, landscapes, and people, Fenn's narrative is enriched and enlivened not only by science and research but by her own encounters at the heart of the world"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Edition
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xix, 456 pages)
- Contents
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- Discovering the heart of the world. Migrations : the making of the Mandan people ; Contacts : villages and newcomers ; Earthwork : the substance of daily life ; Connections : sustained European contact begins
- Inventions and reinventions. Customs : the spirits of daily life ; Upheavals : eighteenth-century transformations ; Scourge : the smallpox of 1781
- At the heart of many worlds. Convergences : forces beyond the horizon ; Hosts : the Mandans receive Lewis and Clark ; Corn : the fuel of Plains commerce
- 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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- 9780374711078
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- Label
- Encounters at the heart of the world : a history of the mandan people
- Title
- Encounters at the heart of the world
- Title remainder
- a history of the mandan people
- Statement of responsibility
- Elizabeth A. Fenn
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "A book that radically changes our understanding of North America before and after the arrival of Europeans Encounters at the Heart of the World concerns the Mandan Indians, iconic Plains people whose teeming, busy towns on the upper Missouri River were for centuries at the center of the North American universe. We know of them mostly because Lewis and Clark spent the winter of 1804-1805 with them, but why don't we know more? Who were they really? In this extraordinary book, Elizabeth A. Fenn retrieves their history by piecing together important new discoveries in archaeology, anthropology, geology, climatology, epidemiology, and nutritional science. Her boldly original interpretation of these diverse research findings offers us a new perspective on early American history, a new interpretation of the American past. By 1500, more than twelve thousand Mandans were established on the northern Plains, and their commercial prowess, agricultural skills, and reputation for hospitality became famous. Recent archaeological discoveries show how they thrived, and then how they collapsed. The damage wrought by imported diseases like smallpox and the havoc caused by the arrival of horses and steamboats were tragic for the Mandans, yet, as Fenn makes clear, their sense of themselves as a people with distinctive traditions endured. A riveting account of Mandan history, landscapes, and people, Fenn's narrative is enriched and enlivened not only by science and research but by her own encounters at the heart of the world"--
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- TEFOD
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- 1959-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Fenn, Elizabeth A.
- Dewey number
- 305.897/522
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- E99.M2
- LC item number
- F46 2014eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
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- Mandan Indians
- Mandan Indians
- Mandan Indians
- Mandan
- Ethnohistorie
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- Encounters at the heart of the world : a history of the mandan people, Elizabeth A. Fenn
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- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- Discovering the heart of the world. Migrations : the making of the Mandan people ; Contacts : villages and newcomers ; Earthwork : the substance of daily life ; Connections : sustained European contact begins -- Inventions and reinventions. Customs : the spirits of daily life ; Upheavals : eighteenth-century transformations ; Scourge : the smallpox of 1781 -- At the heart of many worlds. Convergences : forces beyond the horizon ; Hosts : the Mandans receive Lewis and Clark ; Corn : the fuel of Plains commerce -- 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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- First Edition
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- 1 online resource (xix, 456 pages)
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- Discovering the heart of the world. Migrations : the making of the Mandan people ; Contacts : villages and newcomers ; Earthwork : the substance of daily life ; Connections : sustained European contact begins -- Inventions and reinventions. Customs : the spirits of daily life ; Upheavals : eighteenth-century transformations ; Scourge : the smallpox of 1781 -- At the heart of many worlds. Convergences : forces beyond the horizon ; Hosts : the Mandans receive Lewis and Clark ; Corn : the fuel of Plains commerce -- 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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- unknown
- Edition
- First Edition
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xix, 456 pages)
- File format
- unknown
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- online
- Isbn
- 9780374711078
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- (electronic bk.)
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- 2020648
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Subject
- Ethnohistorie
- History
- Mandan
- Mandan Indians -- Government relations
- trueMandan Indians -- History
- trueElectronic books
- Mandan Indians -- Social life and customs
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- trueIndigenous Histories
- truePulitzer Prize: History
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