Talk:History of Bismarck, North Dakota

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Tempo store was the first discount dept store not Kmart

What About the Mandan?

The Mandan Native American Tribe was centered around Bismarck-Mandan's current location.→[1]→[2] In fact the only thing that seperates Bismarck from a State Historical Site that holds the remains of one of the largest Mandan camps recorded is Fort Abraham Lincoln National Park.[3] So why does wikipedia constantly put White Europeans first in the human interaction with the current Bismarck location on the Heart-and Missouri confluence?→[4] Are Native Americans not people? They are history just like Europeans I would like to see an expanding section on this topic. Thanks I would like to include this piece of evidence on this subject.

(from this link→[5])The first recorded visit to the Mandan was that by the Sieur de la Verendrye in 1738. About 1750 they were settled near the mouth of Heart river in 9 villages, 2 on the east and 7 on the west side. Remains of these villages were found by Lewis and Clark in 1804. Having suffered severely from smallpox and the attacks of the Assiniboin and Dakota, the inhabitants of the two eastern villages consolidated and moved up the 'Missouri to a point opposite the Arikara. The same causes soon reduced the other villages to 5 whose inhabitants subsequently joined those in the Arikara entry, forming 2 villages, which in 1776 were likewise merged. Thus the whole tribe was reduced to 2 villages, Metutanke and Ruptari, situated about 4 miles below the month of Knife river, on opposite sides of the Missouri. These two villages were visited by Lewis and Clark in 1804. In 1837 they were almost destroyed by smallpox, only 31 souls out of 1,600, according to one account, being left, although other and probably more reliable counts make the number of survivors from 125 to 145. After that time they occupied a single village. In 1845, when the Hidatsa removed front Knife river, some the Mandan went with them, and others flowed at intervals.

Let Native Americans share the history of Bismarck. Wikipedia shoudn't just record European history.→[6] Now I would be delighted if I didn't have to make an article myself. But thats what is gonna happen.