Encounters at the heart of the world a history of the Mandan people
"A book that radically changes our understanding of North America before and after the arrival of Europeans 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 Ameri...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Strauss and Giroux,
2015.
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| Edition: | First paperback edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part I : Discovering the heart of the world. Migrations : the making of the Mandan people ; Contacts : villagers and newcomers ; Earthwork : the substances of daily life ; Connections : sustained European contact begins
- Part II : Inventions and reinventions. Customs : the spirits of daily life ; Upheavals : eighteenth-century transformations ; Scourge : the smallpox of 1781
- Part III : at the heart of many worlds. Convergences : forces beyond the horizon ; Hosts : the Mandans receive Lewis and Clark ; Corn : the fuel of plains commerce
- Part IV : 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".
