{{Short description|Former village of the Mandan}} {{Sources exist|date=September 2025}} {{Expand language|topic=|langcode=de|date=May 2025}} {{use mdy dates|date=October 2021}} [[File:George Catlin - The Last Race, Mandan O-kee-pa Ceremony - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|George Catlin's ''The Last Race, Mandan O-kee-pa Ceremony''. The village Indians on the Upper Missouri lived in towns of earth lodges like this.]] '''Mitutanka''', also known as '''{{nwr|Mih-tutta-hang-kusch}}''' or '''Matootonah''', was the lower Mandan village at the time of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://lewisandclarkjournals.unl.edu/item/lc.jrn.1804-11-01#lc.jrn.1804-11-01.06|title=November 1, 1804 | Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition}}</ref> At the time that Lewis and Clark visited the main chief was Sheheke.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://lewisandclarkjournals.unl.edu/item/lc.jrn.1804-11-01#lc.jrn.1804-11-01.01|title=November 1, 1804 | Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition}}</ref>
After a catastrophic smallpox epidemic, the Nuitadi Mandans of Good Boy moved north and later built Mitutanka at the confluence of the Knife River with the Missouri River.<ref name="Heart">Elizabeth Fenn: Encounters at the Heart of the World: a History of the Mandan People</ref> Mitutanka was on the west Bank while the Ruptare town of Ruptare was on the east bank of the Missouri.<ref name="Heart" />
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Category:Lewis and Clark Expedition Category:Former Native American populated places in the United States Category:Mandan Category:Native American history of North Dakota