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PHOTO OF THE DAY October 18, 2003  

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Where North Dakota, United States
When Early 1900s
Photographer Edward S. Curtis

At the time of this photograph of Mandan Indian Yellow Owl, fewer than 300 people of his tribe existed on the Mandan reservation near Fort Berthold, North Dakota. Mandan numbers were decimated by smallpox brought by white traders in the 1830s.

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