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The current tribal chairman is Tex G. Hall, who assumed office in 1998.

1 Mandan

The Mandan are a Native American tribe from around North Dakota. They are now a part of the Three Affiliated Tribes.

At their height the Mandan had a prosperous farming and trading culture. This amazed American explorers who had come to view Natives as savage nomads. Some would even speculate that the Mandan were not natives at all, but rather were lost whites. This is almost certainly not the case. Still the theory persists in some circles, with tie-ins with the just-as-dubious Kensington Stone.

Smallpox wiped out much of the Mandan and eventually forced them to band together with the Hidatsa and later the Arikara to survive. When settlers began arriving in the late 1800s they were placed on the Fort Berthold Reservation .

2 Hidatsa

Work Needed The Hidatsa were allies of the Mandan and eventually banded together with them.

3 Arikara

Work Needed The Arikara were forced into Mandan territory by the LakotaAlternative meaning: Lakota, Cote d'Ivoire is a departement of Cote d'Ivoire. The Lakota ("friends" or "allies", sometimes also spelled "Lakhota", and pronounced "Lakxota" by the Lakota people) are a Native American tribe, also known as the Sioux (see Nam (Sioux), relatively recently.

4 See also

• Arikara WarThe Arikara War took place in 1823 near the Missouri River, present day South Dakota. Arikara (a Native American nation also called Arikaree or Ree warriors attacked an trapping expedition travelling on the river. The United States responded with 230 sold

5 External links

• Three Affiliated Tribes home page