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“The waters that fed the Missouri had once flowed northeast into Hudson Bay, not south toward the Gulf of Mexico.”
Elizabeth A. Fenn, Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People
“Pierre de la Vérendrye and his companions had encountered a people blessed with material abundance. “Corn, meat, fat, dressed robes, and bearskins” were all among their riches. “They are well supplied with these things,” the Frenchman wrote. But his abbreviated journal barely mentions the villagers’ equally rich ceremonial life.1”
Elizabeth A. Fenn, Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People

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