Note 347 — Chapter XXVI · OBSERVATIONS ON THE TRIBE OF THE MANITARIES, OR GROS VENTRES
Hannibal Evans Lloyd translation
Related in our volume xv, pp. 59, 60. Heart River, as the original Mandan home and probably the site of the Minitaree's settling among them, acquired something of a sacred character in the eyes of both tribes; see Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, i, p. 201. The present sacred seat is near Knife River, being a cavern rather than a hill, and known as the "House of the Infants." Matthews, Hidatsa, p. 51.—Ed.