Mandan

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a member of an Indigenous people whose traditional homelands lie along the upper Missouri River in the northern Great Plains

   A Mandan artist demonstrated techniques used to decorate a traditional earth lodge.

2. 2
   noun

   the Siouan language of the Mandan people

   Community teachers are creating new lessons and recordings in Mandan.

3. 3
   adj

   relating to the Mandan people, their language, or their culture

   The museum returned several Mandan cultural objects to the tribal nation.

The English tribal name came through early French and English records of an external name for the people; its deeper derivation is uncertain. Mandan is commonly unchanged as a collective plural, while Mandans also occurs in English.

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