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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Encounters at the heart of the world
    sub title: a history of the mandan people
  name:
    name part: Fenn, Elizabeth A. (Elizabeth Anne)
    name part: 1959-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2014
    copyright date: 2014
    edition: First Edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xix, 456 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
  abstract: A book that radically changes our understanding of North America before and after the arrival of Europeans Encounters at the Heart of the World concerns the Mandan Indians, iconic Plains people whose teeming, busy towns on the upper Missouri River were for centuries at the center of the North American universe. We know of them mostly because Lewis and Clark spent the winter of 1804-1805 with them, but why don't we know more? Who were they really? In this extraordinary book, Elizabeth A. Fenn retrieves their history by piecing together important new discoveries in archaeology, anthropology, geology, climatology, epidemiology and nutritional science. Her boldly original interpretation of these diverse research findings offers us a new perspective on early American history, a new interpretation of the American past. By 1500, more than twelve thousand Mandans were established on the northern Plains, and their commercial prowess, agricultural skills and reputation for hospitality became famous. Recent archaeological discoveries show how they thrived, and then how they collapsed. The damage wrought by imported diseases like smallpox and the havoc caused by the arrival of horses and steamboats were tragic for the Mandans, yet, as Fenn makes clear, their sense of themselves as a people with distinctive traditions endured. A riveting account of Mandan history, landscapes and people, Fenn's narrative is enriched and enlivened not only by science and research but by her own encounters at the heart of the world.
  table of contents: Discovering the heart of the world. Migrations : the making of the Mandan people ; Contacts : villages and newcomers ; Earthwork : the substance of daily life ; Connections : sustained European contact begins -- Inventions and reinventions. Customs : the spirits of daily life ; Upheavals : eighteenth-century transformations ; Scourge : the smallpox of 1781 -- At the heart of many worlds. Convergences : forces beyond the horizon ; Hosts : the Mandans receive Lewis and Clark ; Corn : the fuel of Plains commerce -- New adversities. Sheheke : the metamorphosis of a chief ; Reorientation : the United States and the Upper Missouri ; visitations : rats, steamboats, and the Sioux ; Decimation : "The smallpox has broke out."
  note: Elizabeth A. Fenn.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: np-----
  subject:
    topic: Mandan Indians
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Mandan Indians
    topic: Government relations
  subject:
    topic: Mandan Indians
    topic: Social life and customs
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Native American
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775)
  classification: E99.M2 F46 2014
  classification: 305.897/522
  identifier: 9780809042395 (hardback)
  identifier: 0809042398 (hardback)
  identifier: 2013032994
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 130905
    record change date: 20151206100412.0
    record identifier: in00003431873