Some historians hold that the name "Chugwater" is derived from a Mandan account of a bison hunt.
Denise Juneau, the State Superintendent of Public Instruction for Montana
Mandan | "Tchung-kee, a Mandan Game Played with a Ring and Pole" by artist George Catlin | Robert Mandan |
Ethnographic accounts indicate that the Assiniboine, Sioux, Mandan, Hidatsa, Plains Ojibwa, and Atsina peoples all made use of the region for hunting or trade route purposes, though few archaeological sites have been formally identified.
Fort Abraham Lincoln, an old military post near Mandan, North Dakota, now a state park
A description of Hidatsa-Mandan culture, including a grammar and vocabulary of the language, was published in 1877 by Washington Matthews, a government physician who lived among the Hidatsa at Fort Berthold Indian Reservation.
Wintering at Fort Clark near the Mandan villages, they continued downriver the following spring, having spent over a year on the Upper Missouri.
As of 2007, extensive materials in the Mandan language at the college and at the North Dakota Heritage Center, in Bismarck, North Dakota, remained to be processed, according to linguists.
Robert Mandan (born February 2, 1932) is an American actor, best known for his portrayals of playwright David Allen on the NBC serial From These Roots from 1958 to 1961, businessman Sam Reynolds on the serial Search for Tomorrow from 1965 to 1970, and Chester Tate on the satirical sitcom Soap from 1977 to 1981.
Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied observed the society firsthand, and during his travels, every Mandan village has a White Buffalo Cow Society.
Illingworth and the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment departed for the Black Hills on 2 July 1874 from Fort Abraham Lincoln on the west bank of the Missouri River, seven miles south of what is now Mandan, North Dakota, and returned 30 August 1874.