Mandan
1 Americannoun
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a member of a Siouan people of North Dakota.
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the Siouan language of the Mandan Indians.
noun
Example Sentences
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Jerry got his start just across the Missouri River in Bismarck’s sister city, Mandan, at a theater called the Showboat.
From Salon • Dec. 18, 2025
A member of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation digs into a decades-long mystery: how 15 intercontinental ballistic missiles came to be siloed on her ancestral lands.
From Scientific American • Nov. 14, 2023
District Republicans recently appointed a successor for his seat representing Mandan, the city neighboring Bismarck to the west across the Missouri River.
From Washington Times • Nov. 2, 2023
Rows of headstones at the North Dakota Veterans Cemetery are blanketed by drifting snow in Mandan, N.D., whereas in San Pedro, a sun sets in pleasant weather.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2022
For example, in 1837 the Mandan Indian tribe, with one of the most elaborate cultures in our Great Plains, contracted smallpox from a steamboat traveling up the Missouri River from St. Louis.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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