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used by Lance Shoulder,” and “ No. 2 was oceupied by Four Bears.” 
The list includes fifteen names. At the time the survey was made 
the entire ditch could not be traced, but its general course could be 
followed, thus indicating the approximate boundary of the town, 
“beyond which only a few tepees are located.” (Libby, (1), pp. 
498-499, ) 
When it is realized how little is known regarding the arrangement 
of the many ancient villages which once stood in the country east of 
the Mississippi, villages which in their time were probably as 
large and important as those of the Mandan of the last century, it 
is not possible to overestimate the value of the work of the His- 
THE FORT CLARK 
MANDAN VILLAGE. 
Surveyed and Marpad 
Frank JW Kiabert 
Fig. 10.—Plan of the Mandan village at Fort Clark. 
torical Society in causing to be made an accurate survey of the sites 
and in securing descriptions of the villages from some who remember 
them. A generation later this would not have been possible. 
HIDATSA GROUP. 
Two tribes are regarded as constituting this group: The Hidatsa 
proper, known to the earlier writers as the Minnetarees, and to 
others as the Gros Ventres of the Missouri; and the Crows. The 
Hidatsa and the Crows were, until a few generations ago, one people, 
but trouble developed and the latter moved farther up the Missouri 
to the Rocky Mountains, and there they were discovered by tlfe early 
explorers of the region. 
‘The Amahami may have been a distinct tribe, and as such were 
recognized by Lewis and Clark, but according to their own traditions 
they, together with the Hidatsa and Crows, once formed a single 
