Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People BISAC-TRV032000 ISBN13: 9780292730878

ISBN13: 9780292730878

He has also taught at the Sorbonne (Paris IV) and has been a visiting fellow at the Centre for Mediaeval Studies and the Pontifical Institute at the University of Toronto

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Peters supplements his previous work by including a considerable number of texts not available at the time of the original publication

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Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People BISAC-TRV032000 ISBN13: 9780292730878Winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for History 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