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
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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
Additional research showed that flaring rates on Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation lands atop the oil-rich Bakken formation were extremely high compared to public and tribal lands outside of North Dakota.
From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2023
Mark Fox, tribal chairman of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation, welcomed the change, telling The Bismarck Tribune that the slur “really causes serious and strong emotions and resistance to that term.”
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 12, 2023
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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