Manatara

Manatara lies north of the Knife River villages on the upper Missouri. The Hidatsa established Big Hidatsa Village near the Knife's mouth around 1600, growing maize and maintaining ties of trade and marriage with the Mandan. In 1834 a Dakota raid destroyed the nearby Awatixa and Awaxawi villages, and their inhabitants joined the people at Big Hidatsa. Smallpox struck the river villages again in 1837.