etymology of MANDAN

Robert L. Rankin rankin at lark.cc.ukans.edu
Wed Aug 4 15:00:29 UTC 1999


> I sort of have the impression that the Mandan and Hidatsa are know by
> outsiders' names and by internal village names.

Maximilian gives the village names as I recall.  nuptadi was one of them
(the smaller, I think), but I'm not certain there was a single ethnonym
for everybody who spoke the language.

Bob



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