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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 558 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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MANDAN , a tribe of See also:

North See also:

AMERICAN

American See also:

INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN

Indians of Siouan. stock . When first met they were living on the See also:

MISSOURI

Missouri at the mouth of the See also:

Heart See also:

RIVER

river . At the beginning of the 19th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century they were driven up the Missouri by the See also:

SIOUX

Sioux . In 1845 they joined the See also:

GROS, ANTOINE JEAN, BARON (1771–1835)

Gros Ventres and later the Arikaras, and settled in their See also:

PRESENT

present position at Fort Berthold See also:

RESERVATION (Lat. reservare, to keep back)

reservation, North Dakota .

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