Clark: March 10, 1805

10th of March Sunday 1805. a Cold winday Day. we are visited by the Black
mockersons, Chief of the 2d Manetarre Village and the Chief of the Shoeman
Village or Mah ha ha V. those Chiefs Stayed all day and the latter all
night and gave us many Strang accounts of his nation &c this Little
tribe or band of Menitaraies Call themselves Ah-nah-haway or people whose
village is on the hill. nation formerleyed lived about 30 miles below this
but beeing oppressed by the Asinniboins & Sous were Compelled to move
5 miles the Minitaries, where, the Assinniboins Killed the most of. them
those remaining built a village verry near to the Minitarries at the mouth
of Knife R where they now live and Can raise about 50 men, they are
intermixed with the Mandans & Minatariersthe Manclans formerly
lived in 6 large villages at and above the mouth of Chischeter or Heart
River five Villages on the West Side & two on the East one of those
Villages on the East Side of the Missouri & the larges was intirely
Cut off by the Sioux & the greater part of the others and the Small
Pox reduced the others.