elizabeth fenn encounters at the heart of the world

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and ends in the 1830s after a final devastating smallpox epidemic forced the abandonment of the last remaining Mandan villages. Her story of the Mandan people begins roughly in 1000 c.e. Fenn seeks to take us, though to get us there she must weave together the fragments of evidence from archaeological, ethnographic, geological, demographic, epidemiological, and climatological sources to offset the scanty documentary record. The “heart of the world” was and is the name by which Mandans call their homeland in what is now North Dakota, and it is the place to which Elizabeth A.

Elizabeth fenn encounters at the heart of the world