Mitutanka
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
- ^ https://lewisandclarkjournals.unl.edu/item/lc.jrn.1804-11-01#lc.jrn.1804-11-01.06
- ^ https://lewisandclarkjournals.unl.edu/item/lc.jrn.1804-11-01#lc.jrn.1804-11-01.01
- ^ a b Elizabeth Fenn: Encounters at the Heart of the World: a History of the Mandan People