Mandan Indians

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SMOKE EYES AND WATER
Fighting Bear, a Native American (Mandan) man, and his family (Ree) pose outdoors at Fort Berthold, Dakota Territory. - Curtis - 1880/1889
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Moses On The Mesa "Bismark Mary" and Mandan men - 1880
Picture of Mandan Girl Native American Woman ***
Mandan Girl - Sha-kó-ka, Mint, a Pretty Girl, 1832, Mandan Numakiki tribe. George Catlin (1796-1872). Catlin wrote the following to accompany this picture: “A very pretty and modest girl, twelve years of age, with grey hair! peculiar to the Mandans … about one in twelve, of both sexes and of all ages, have … hair of a bright silvery grey, and exceedingly coarse and harsh.”
Bear on the Water was born in 1822 at the chief village of the Mandans