Encounters at the Heart of the World
Subtitle: a history of the Mandan people
Publisher: Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780374535117
Table of contents: title: Part I : Discovering the heart of the world.; title: Migrations : the making of the Mandan people; title: Contacts : villagers and newcomers; title: Earthwork : the substances of daily life; title: Connections : sustained European contact begins; title: Part II : Inventions and reinventions.; title: Customs : the spirits of daily life; title: Upheavals : eighteenth-century transformations; title: Scourge : the smallpox of 1781; title: Part III : at the heart of many worlds.; title: Convergences : forces beyond the horizon; title: Hosts : the Mandans receive Lewis and Clark; title: Corn : the fuel of plains commerce; title: Part IV : new adversities.; title: Sheheke : the metamorphosis of a chief; title: Reorientation : the United States and the upper Missouri; title: Visitations : rats, steamboats, and the Sioux; title: Decimation : "the smallpox has broke out"