Encounters at the Heart of the World

Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People
First edition
AuthorElizabeth A. Fenn
LanguageEnglish
SubjectsMandan; colonialism; disease
GenreIndigenous History
Published2014
PublisherHill and Wang
Publication placeUnited States
Pages480
AwardsPulitzer Prize for History
ISBN978-0-374-71107-8

Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People is a Pulitzer Prize–winning non-fiction history book by American historian Elizabeth A. Fenn about the Mandan people, a Native American tribe located in what is now North Dakota. It was published in 2014 by Hill and Wang. The book draws on a wide array of sources, including demographic, ethnographic, archaeological, epidemiological, and climatological research and records, as well as Fenn's own travels through the region.