Fort Mandan, North Dakota — John Ordway: December 30, 1804
Mandans visited the expedition's camp to trade, bringing corn, beans, squash, and a traditional bread made from parched corn and beans rolled into balls. The journal also notes that the Mandans grow a sweet variety of corn, which they boil in quantity while still in the milk stage and then dry to preserve as a food supply for winter.
of the Mandans came to Trade with us. they Brought us corn &
Beans Squasshes, also a Some of their kind of Bread which they
1 Gass gives a longer and more detailed account of the day’s festivities.
The fondness of the men for dancing, particularly on occasions when, as today.
the other sex was absent, seems somewhat unusual.
1804] SERGEANT ORD WAY’S JOURNAL 175
make of pearched corn and beans mixed together & made in round
balls, they have a Sweet kind of corn which they Boil considerable
of it when it is in the milk & drys it which they keep through the
winter Season.
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Some of the Mandans came to trade with us. They brought us corn, beans, and squashes, also some of their kind of bread which they make of parched corn and beans mixed together and made into round balls. They have a sweet kind of corn, of which they boil a considerable amount when it is in the milk stage and then dry it, which they keep through the winter season.
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