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Mitutanka (Matootonah) was the lower Mandan village at the time of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.[1] At the time that Lewis and Clark visited the main chief was Sheheke.[2]
After a catastrophic smallpox epidemic, the Nuitadi Mandans of Good Boy moved north and later built Mitutanka at the confluence of the Knife River with the Missouri River.[3] Mitutanka was on the west Bank while the Ruptare town of Ruptare was on the east bank of the Missouri.[3]
References
- ^ "November 1, 1804 | Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition".
- ^ "November 1, 1804 | Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition".
- ^ a b Elizabeth Fenn: Encounters at the Heart of the World: a History of the Mandan People