Encounters at the heart of the world : a history of the Mandan people / Elizabeth A. Fenn.
2014
305.897522 F334e 2014
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Title
Encounters at the heart of the world : a history of the Mandan people / Elizabeth A. Fenn.
Edition
First Edition
ISBN
9780809042395 (hardback)
0809042398 (hardback)
0809042398 (hardback)
Published
New York : Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.
Copyright
©2014
Language
English
Description
xix, 456 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Call Number
305.897522 F334e 2014
System Control No.
(OCoLC)846545690
(OCoLC)846545690
(OCoLC)846545690
Summary
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? Elizabeth A. Fenn retrieves their history by piecing together important new discoveries in archaeology, anthropology, geology, climatology, epidemiology, and nutritional science. 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-428) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
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".
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".
Awards
Pulitzer Prize for history, 2015.
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