Estupenda historia de los pueblos Mandan e Hidatsa del Missouri. Elizabeth A. Fenn is an associate professor at the University of ColoradoBoulder, where she holds the Walter S. and Lucienne Driskill Chair in Western American History.
Drawing on a staggering range of sources, Elizabeth A. Fenn has recovered it and brought this very American story to life.” ―
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Simultaneously scholarly and highly readable, Fenn's contribution enriches our understanding of not just Mandan history, but the history and culture of the preservation northern Plains as well."
Through Mandan interaction with other tribes the book also includes insight portion to the life of the Cheyenne, Sioux, Lakota, and other Plains Indians.
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En resumen un estupendo libro para aquellos que quieran profundizar en la historia de pueblos americanos.del alto Missouri.
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There, long before the arrival of colonists on the Atlantic coast, the Mandan people built one of the most important and enduring trading centers in America.
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Piecing together the journals of white visitors to this then unmapped land--from the French explorers Lahontan in 1688 and de la Vérendrye 50 years later, to Lewis and Clark, and later Prince Maximilian accompanied by Bodmer, the Swiss painter--and the annual reports to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Fenn weaves the historical fabric of this proud people, enhanced by archaeological and climate studies tracing their migrations, food sources, and intertribal conflicts.
Simultaneously scholarly and highly readable, Fenn's contribution enriches our understanding of not just Mandan history, but the history and culture of the prereservation northern Plains as well.” ―“Historians thought this book could not be written--a history of a world far from document producing Europeans.
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Working from the native center rather than the colonial and coastal periphery, Fenn deftly reveals the haunting interplay of nature, humanity, loss, survival, and memory in the lives of the Mandans and their neighbors, who both shared and violently contested a demanding yet beautiful land.” ―“For almost three centuries, the Mandans' society of farmers and traders dominated one of North America's greatest networks of exchange, hosting and bartering with the French, English, and Spanish; with the Hidatsas, Arikaras, Assiniboines, and Lakota Sioux; and, later, with the hustlers, soldiers, hunters, and artists of the new United States.
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