Mitutanka

Mitutanka (Matootonah) was the lower Mandan village at the time of the Lewis and Clark expedition.[1] At the time that Lewis and Clark visited the main chief was Sheheke[2]

George Catlin - The Last Race, Mandan O-kee-pa Ceremony - Google Art Project. The village Indians on the Upper Missouri lived in towns of earth lodges like this.

. After a catastrophic smallpox epidemic, the Nuitadi Mandans of Good Boy moved north and later built Mitutanka at the confluence of the Knife River with the Missouri River[3]. Mitutanka was on the west Bank while the Ruptare town of Ruptare was on the east bank of the Missouri[3].

References
  1. https://lewisandclarkjournals.unl.edu/item/lc.jrn.1804-11-01#lc.jrn.1804-11-01.06
  2. https://lewisandclarkjournals.unl.edu/item/lc.jrn.1804-11-01#lc.jrn.1804-11-01.01
  3. Elizabeth Fenn: Encounters at the Heart of the World: a History of the Mandan People
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