The Mandan had acquired horses in the…
1768 CE to 1779 CE
The Mandan use them both for transportation, to carry packs and pull travois, and for hunting.
The horses help with the expansion of Mandan hunting territory on to the Plains.
The encounter with the French from Canada in the seventeenth century had created a trading link between the French and Native Americans of the region; the Mandan serve as middlemen in the trade in furs, horses, guns, crops and buffalo products.
Spanish merchants and officials in St. Louis (after France had ceded its territory west of the Mississippi River to Spain in 1763) explore the Missouri and strengthen relations with the Mandan (whom they call Mandanas).
They want to discourage trade in the region by the British and the Americans, but the Mandan carry on open trade with all competitors; they are not abpout to be limited by the maneuvering of the Europeans.
French traders in St. Louis also seek to establish direct overland communication between Santa Fé and their city; the fur trading Chouteau brothers gain a Spanish monopoly on trade with Santa Fe.
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Apache (Na-Dené tribe)
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Mandan (Amerind tribe)
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