Mitutanka

Mitutanka (Matootonah) was the lower Mandan village at the time of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.^[1] At the time that Lewis and Clark visited the main chief was Sheheke.^[2]

George Catlin - The Last Race, Mandan O-kee-pa Ceremony - Google Art Project. The village Indians on the Upper Missouri lived in towns of earth lodges like this.

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.^[3] Mitutanka was on the west Bank while the Ruptare town of Ruptare was on the east bank of the Missouri.^[3]