On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Alan H. Hartley wrote: > Hayden (1862, p. 426) has "The Mandans, or Mi-ah'ta-nes [dot above h; > long e], "people on the bank"(of the river), as they call themselves". > Is this analyzable? It looks like a mangling of Minitare, with the first r (the n in Mini) missing. I'll have to look up 'bank' later.