We are the tribe, the Mandan, Hidatsas, and Arikaras, who saved Lewis and Clark.

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Claryca Mandan says the lawsuit is not about money, or a way for Native Americans to get rich quick.

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Regis Mohawk, Tlingit, Oglala Sioux, Standing Rock Sioux, and the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation.

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In our Hidatsa, Mandan, and Arikara ways you don't give a gift to a tent, you give it to the individual.

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Adding salt to the wound, Claryca Mandan says, is that the USDA recently settled a lawsuit and agreed to changes in practices in order to protect endangered wildlife.

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Bismarck High is playing Mandan tonight.

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