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The Mandan Indians, iconic plains people whose teeming, busy towns on the upper Missouri River were for centuries at the centre of the North American universe. Why don't we know more? Who were they, really? This book retrieves their history by piecing together important discoveries in archaeology, anthropology, geology, climatology, and more.

Encounters at the Heart of the World

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      Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
      Publication Date: 17/03/2015
      ISBN13: 9780374535117, 978-0374535117
      ISBN10: 0374535116
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      Book Synopsis
      The Mandan Indians, iconic plains people whose teeming, busy towns on the upper Missouri River were for centuries at the centre of the North American universe. Why don't we know more? Who were they, really? This book retrieves their history by piecing together important discoveries in archaeology, anthropology, geology, climatology, and more.

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