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Where did Lewis and Clark spend their first winter in 1804?
Near what is now Bismark and Mandan North Dakota. They spent the winter with the Mandan Indians and where they met Saqajawea
When did Lewis and clark go to fort mandan?
Lewis and Clark went to the Mandan-Hidatsa Indian villages on 25 October 1804, where they spent the winter. (http://www.fortmandan.com/planningyourvisit/fortmandan.asp)
What fort did Lewis and Clark build in November of 1804?
Fort Mandan
Customs of the Sioux?
One of the customs of the Sioux was for a woman who was interested in a man to stand outside her teepee at night. She would wrap herself in a blanket and wait for the man to arrive. Another custom was for women of the tribe to dance on the morning of a wedding.
Why did the mandan and Comanche tribes live in different kinds of villages?
They spoke different languages
Mandan Indians use buffalo?
The mandan tribe did use the buffalo
How did the Mandan obtain food?
They got there food by hunting buffalo and growing crops.
What food did the mandan eat?
Buffalo and the three sisters corn,beans,squash
Why did the Mandan travel across the grassy plains during the summer?
to hunt buffalo
What did mandan Indians wear?
they wore clothes made out of buffalo skin and deer skin
What was the buffalo dance?
The buffalo dance is where the young men are chosen to do it. It was a great honour to do it and the people that did it they would be remembered as the buffalo dancers.
Why was the buffalo dance performed?
the buffalo dance waas done because they celbrated themselves killing a buffalo dressed as wolves and dancing around the bufaalo singing and dancing
What do the mandan plains eat?
"Mandan Plains" makes no sense - the Mandan tribe were not a Plains group but lived in semi-permanent villages along the upper Missouri river. They are classed as "marginally Plains" because they were not primarily nomadic buffalo hunters.The Mandan women grew the usual crops of maize (Indian corn), beans and squash, along with sunflowers for their nutritious seeds. Men would hunt deer and buffalo occasionally out on the Plains, or visited other tribes to exchange their own produce for hides and meat.
What are the mandan food source?
women grew crops such as corn beans squash and sunflowers and the men hunted deer and other small game, but seasonally the mandan would hunt buffalo which became a very reliable food source
Why did the western great plains Indians do the sun dance and buffalo dance?
the sun dance was danced because they thought it healed the injured. so if someone was ill they danced it believing the ill person would get better. the buffalo dance was a dance that the Plains Indians did when they had ran out of buffalo. They would do this to ask their god for more buffalo.
Where did shuffle off to buffalo tap dance come from?
Mexico
Where is the Mandan Historical Society in Mandan North Dakota located?
The address of the Mandan Historical Society is: Po Box 1001, Mandan, ND 58554
