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Sha-ko-ka (MINT), a girl from the Mandan tribe
(video picture)
1832

Written by artist George Catlin.

Artist George Catlin - painted in oil on canvas - this beautiful Mandan girl - in their settlement, in 1832.

He said that she was 12 years old (but this is strange - in the picture she looks 15-18 years old, and given the noticeable, similar to gray hair - she looks even older).

“A very pretty and modest girl,” wrote George Catlin, “twelve years old, with gray hair.

Such hair is characteristic of Mandans. . . They are very numerous, of both sexes and of all ages, from infancy to maturity and old age, with bright silver-grey hair; and in some cases almost perfectly white. This unusual and eccentric appearance is much more common in women than in men; for many of the latter who have it seem to be ashamed of it and skillfully hide it by stuffing their hair with glue and black and red earth. Women, on the other hand, seem to take pride in it and often display it in an almost unbelievable exuberance that extends over their shoulders and down to their knees. After careful investigation, I found that about one in ten or twelve of the whole tribe are what the French call "cheveux gris", or gray-haired; and that this strange and inexplicable phenomenon is not the result of disease or habit; but that it is undoubtedly a hereditary trait, transmitted by heredity, and does not indicate inequality in character or intellect. And running this hair through my hands (as I often did) I always found it as rough and rough as a horse's mane; significantly different from the hair of other colors, which in Mandans are usually as thin and soft as silk.

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The first meeting of the Mandan Indians with Europeans took place in 1738, when they were visited by French traders. At that time, their number was about 15,000 people living in 9 villages on the Hart River (Wyoming, USA).

The unusual color of their hair was assumed by some researchers as a result of contact with Europeans before the discovery of America by Columbus.

In the middle of the 18th century, the Mandan tribe first acquired horses, which they used for transportation and hunting.

The meeting with the French led the Mandan Indians to play the role of intermediaries in the trade in skins, cereals and buffalo meat - in exchange for weapons and horses.

In 1750, there were 9 villages of the Mandan tribe, but several epidemics of smallpox and cholera reduced their number to two by 1800.

At the turn of the 19th century, attacks by neighboring tribes and epidemics of smallpox and whooping cough led to a significant reduction in the Mandan population.

After a major smallpox epidemic in 1837, only 100-150 members of the Mandan tribe survived.

Some of them moved to the Hidatsa tribe in Fort Berthold (North Dakota, USA) in 1845, and most of the others moved there later.

Under the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934, the Mandan officially merged with the Arikara and Hidatsa tribes into the Three Affiliated Tribes.

The number of descendants of the Mandan tribe as of 2000 was 369 people.

The full-blooded Mandan died in the early to mid-1970s.

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