March 10, 1805
10th of March Sunday 1805.
a Cold winday Day. we are visited by the Black mockersons, Chief of the
2d Manetarre Village and the Chief of the Shoeman Village or Mah ha ha
V. those Chiefs Stayed all day and the latter all night and gave us
many Strang accounts of his nation &c this Little tribe or band of
Menitaraies Call themselves Ah-nah-haway or people whose village is on
the hill. nation formerleyed lived about 30 miles below this but beeing
oppressed by the Asinniboins & Sous were Compelled to move 5 miles the
Minitaries, where, the Assinniboins Killed the most of. them those
remaining built a village verry near to the Minitarries at the mouth of
Knife R where they now live and Can raise about 50 men, they are
intermixed with the Mandans & Minatariers— the Manclans formerly lived
in 6 large villages at and above the mouth of Chischeter or Heart River
five Villages on the West Side & two on the East one of those Villages
on the East Side of the Missouri & the larges was intirely Cut off by
the Sioux & the greater part of the others and the Small Pox reduced
the others.
