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Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People

Elizabeth A. Fenn

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

Cosma Rohilla Shalizi liked it affiliate
Fascinating, but it only goes up to the 1830s, when the Mandans were almost completely wiped out by smallpox. We get glimpses of the later history, but I wish Fenn had brought things closer up to the present.

on bactra.org · 31 Aug 2016

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.