10th.. of March Sunday
1805.
a cold winday Day, we are visited by the Black Mockersons,
Chief of the 2d.
Minetarre Village and the Chief of the
Shoeman Village (Shoe or Mocassin Tr:) or Mah hâ ha V.
(Wattassoans) those Chiefs Stayed all day and the latter all
night, and gave us man[y] Strang[e] accounts of his nation &c.
this Little tribe or band of Me ne
tar rees (call themselves Ah-nah-hâ-way
or people whose Village is on the Hill. (
Insert
this Ahnahaway is the nation Mahhaha the village) this little
nation formerley lived about 30 miles below this, but beeing
oppressed by the Assinniboins & Sous were Compelled to
move near
(5 miles) the Menetarees, where, the Assinniboins
killed the most of them,
those remaining built a village verry
near to the Menetarries at the mouth
of Knife R where they
now live, and Can raise about 50 men, they are
intermixed
with the Mandans & Menatarries. the Mandans formerly
lived in 6 (
nine) large Villages at and above the
mouth of
Chischeter
or Heart River four (
Six) Villages on the West Side (
of
the Missouri) & two (
three) on the East
one of those Villages
on the East Side of the Missouri & the larges[t]
was entirely
Cut off by the Seaux & the greater part of the other and
the
Small Pox reduced the others.
