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Where do mandans live?

Updated: 8/18/2019
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12y ago

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As you phrased your question in the present tense there is no simple answer.

The last full-blood Mandan died in 1971, so it is considered by some people that the tribe is extinct; the very last fluent speaker of the Mandan language is currently 80 years old.

On the other hand there are many natives descended from mixed marriages between Mandans, Hidatsas and Arikaras (and other races) in the area of New Town, North Dakota, and throughout the USA and Canada. Are these people truly Mandans - for example if they are half Mandan, half Hidatsa, why are they not counted as Hidatsa? There is scope for much debate on the question of tribal affiliations, but the end result is that there is no simple answer.

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