Notes+DJ

cultural hero of the village.
 * Why do the Mandan have a sacred post in the center of their villages? || the pole represents the primary

Larger families or more spiritual families get to be closer to the center plaza with the pole. || The largest huts were near the center of the village

The pole gathers a croud around the plaza where the pole is. it represents a cultural meeting place.

In the northern part of the village in front of the post, the medicine man lives. The pole was suposed to give the man more powers to heal aswell. ||


 * Why did the Mandan live in huts instead of teepees like the other Great Plain Native Americans? || The Mandan were not a nomadic tibe.

The Mandan were a trade tribe that grew crops.

They only moved during the winter season to a wooded area near the river. || They were a larger tribe.

Other tribes went into their villages to trade for their corn.

Their huts were made into the earth and therefore is hard to move. ||


 * Why did the Mandan fight the tribes that neighbored them but still trade with them? || The Mandan needed the other stuff that the other tribes had.

The other tribes needed the stuff the Mandan had.

The mandan still wanted more land. || The Mandan had mostly crops.

They only hunted when food was scarce.

The Mandan had 2 large villages and many tribe members.

Other tribes had bows and arrows, meat, horses, skins and a lot more. ||


 * Why was one Mandan chief named Black Cat? || His name was Posecopsahe in their language. || The name derived from the indian word //puskapsi which means black cat in English.// ||


 * What was the food supply like in for the Mandan? || There were a lot of crops

There were wild berries

There were buffalo herds throughout the year. || The women planted fields of corn and other crops during the early spring.

The women gathered the berries.

During the winter, Lewis and Clark went on a hunting expedition with the mandan during their stay for the winter ||

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