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<em>Missouri Indian, Oto Indian, Chief of the Puncas</em>, portraits made by Karl Bodmer during an exploration of the Missouri River and its environs led by Prince Maximilian of Wied in 1833–1834. The Missouria man portrayed is Mahinkacha (Maker of Knives). [State Historical Society of Missouri Art Collection, <a href=https://digital.shsmo.org/digital/collection/art/id/477/> 1958.0007c1</a>]

The Missouria

By brennerj

When French explorer Robert La Salle passed by the mouth of the Missouri River in 1682, he wrote that on its banks were “a great number of large villages of many different nations.” The two dominant nations at that time in what is now the state of