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Champion of the 2015 Pulitzer Award for Record. Encounters at the Heart of the World concerns the Mandan Indians, iconic Plains people whose teeming, occupied towns on the top Missouri River were, for years and years, at the guts of the UNITED STATES universe. We realize of them largely because Lewis and Clark put in the winter of 1804-1805 with them, but why don't we know more? Who were they really? In such a extraordinary publication, Elizabeth A. Fenn retrieves their record by piecing jointly important new discoveries in archaeology, anthropology, geology, climatology, epidemiology, and nutritional research. Her boldly original interpretation of these diverse research findings offers us a new perspective on early American history, a new interpretation of the American recent. By 1500, more than 12,000 Mandans were set up on the north Plains, and their commercial prowess, agricultural skills, and reputation for hospitality became famous. Recent archaeological discoveries show how these Indigenous American people thrived, and then that they collapsed. The harm wrought by imported diseases like smallpox and the havoc triggered by the arrival of horses and steamboats were tragic for the Mandans, yet, as Fenn makes clear, their sense of themselves as a people who have distinctive practices endured. A riveting profile of Mandan record, landscapes, and people, Fenn's narrative is enriched and enlivened not only by research and research, but by her own encounters in the centre of the world.
