Indigenous Language Collections
The Mandans: A Study of Their Culture, Archaeology and Language
G. F. Will and H. J. Spinden
Mandan
198 source PDF pages · 145 pages with searchable text
Source context
Historical cultural, archaeological and linguistic study, not simply a dictionary. Source interpretations reflect the publication’s historical context.
Language context: Mandan. This label does not mean every passage is in the listed language.
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Suggested thematic connections
These themes are suggested by matching words in source-linked passages. They are editorial navigation aids, not official standards alignments or validated cultural equivalences.
- Water and rivers · 16 passages
- Food and cultivation · 16 passages
- Spiritual life and ceremony · 15 passages
- Animals and relationships · 15 passages
- Kinship and family · 10 passages
- Memory and historical record · 4 passages
- Seasons and cycles · 4 passages
- Music and song · 4 passages
- Story and oral tradition · 4 passages
- Language and identity · 4 passages
- Travel and migration · 3 passages
- Land and place · 2 passages
- Community and belonging · 2 passages
- Sky and celestial relationships · 1 passages
- Language learning and translation · 1 passages
- Plants and ecological knowledge · 1 passages
- Pronunciation and writing · 1 passages