Author : Barbara Fifer
Publisher : Farcountry Press
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 23,31 MB
Release : 2004-02-28
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1560372699
As the Lewis and Clark Expedition traveled west, white explorers and Native American peoples encountered each other for the first time. Learn how the natives lived, how they interacted, and what they thought of the explorers from the east.
Author : James P. Ronda
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 17,50 MB
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0803290195
Particularly valuable for Ronda's inclusion of pertinent background information about the various tribes and for his ethnological analysis. An appendix also places the Sacagawea myth in its proper perspective. Gracefully written, the book bridges the gap between academic and general audiences.OCo"Choice""
Author : James P. Ronda
Publisher :
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 15,29 MB
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN :
Ronda forms a compelling narrative of Lewis and Clark's expedition and their encounters with Indians. A story of discovery and suspense, it is told with a modern concern to understand the Indian side as well as the white side in this meeting of two cultures. Illustrations. Maps.
Author : Alvin M. Josephy, Jr.
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 43,52 MB
Release : 2008-12-10
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0307487458
At the heart of this landmark collection of essays rests a single question: What impact, good or bad, immediate or long-range, did Lewis and Clark’s journey have on the Indians whose homelands they traversed? The nine writers in this volume each provide their own unique answers; from Pulitzer prize-winner N. Scott Momaday, who offers a haunting essay evoking the voices of the past; to Debra Magpie Earling’s illumination of her ancestral family, their survival, and the magic they use to this day; to Mark N. Trahant’s attempt to trace his own blood back to Clark himself; and Roberta Conner’s comparisons of the explorer’s journals with the accounts of the expedition passed down to her. Incisive and compelling, these essays shed new light on our understanding of this landmark journey into the American West.
Author : Meriwether Lewis
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,4 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Columbia River
ISBN :
Lewis and Clark's Expedition from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean was the first governmental exploration of the "Great West." The history of this undertaking is the personal narrative and official report of the first white men who crossed the continent between and British and Spanish possessions.
Author : Sammye J. Meadows
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 33,75 MB
Release : 2011-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1118068734
The Lewis and Clark expedition was the greatest camping trip in history. It was one of those irresistible American adventures that many people dream of living. This book shares the delightful details of the journey that historians have gleaned from the group’s journals and maps, and also discusses what’s known of the Indian perspective of the expedition. Throughout the book, you find out about Jefferson’s western exploration from his earliest efforts to see the Corps assembled through the aftermath for the explorers, the tribes, and the United States. But the focus of Lewis & Clark For Dummies is on the period between Jefferson’s confidential letter to Congress requesting dollars to mount a western exploration (January 18,1803) and the expedition’s triumphant (and improbable) return to St. Louis (September 23, 1806): forty-two months that changed the world. Join Lewis and Clark as they recruit the Corps of Discovery, meet Sacagawea and various Indian tribes, and set off along the Missouri River on a thrilling, perilous journey. Lewis & Clark For Dummies also covers the following topics and more: The expedition’s people and places Jefferson’s fascination with the West Final preparations of Meriwether Lewis Weathering storms to launch the expedition The discomforts and dangers of the journey Making maps and writing reports A first look at the Pacific Ocean The story of Lewis and Clark doesn’t end with their return to St. Louis. This book will also lead you on an exploration of the fates and lessons of the Corps of Discovery. Find out what happened to Lewis, Clark, and many other key players after their famous journey. And examine the aftermath for the American Indians and the political and cultural ramifications for the United States. You’ll even find the resources you need to plan your own recreation of the expedition as you take the Trail yourself!
Author : Alvin M. Josephy, Jr.
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 30,85 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 1400042674
A study of the Lewis and Clark expedition from the perspective of Indian writers, tribal leaders, and historians examines the impact of the expedition on the native peoples it encountered, featuring contributions from newspaper editor Mark Trahant, essayist and author Debra Magpie Earling, and tribal leader Roberta Conner, among others. 20,000 first printing.
Author : Elin Woodger
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 38,16 MB
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Culture
ISBN : 1438110235
Provides facts and information about the travels of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark and their Corps of Discovery and its importance in relation to Native Americans and the westward expansion in the United States.
Author : Robert J. Miller
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 31,73 MB
Release : 2006-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0313071845
Manifest Destiny, as a term for westward expansion, was not used until the 1840s. Its predecessor was the Doctrine of Discovery, a legal tradition by which Europeans and Americans laid legal claim to the land of the indigenous people that they discovered. In the United States, the British colonists who had recently become Americans were competing with the English, French, and Spanish for control of lands west of the Mississippi. Who would be the discoverers of the Indians and their lands, the United States or the European countries? We know the answer, of course, but in this book, Miller explains for the first time exactly how the United States achieved victory, not only on the ground, but also in the developing legal thought of the day. The American effort began with Thomas Jefferson's authorization of the Lewis & Clark Expedition, which set out in 1803 to lay claim to the West. Lewis and Clark had several charges, among them the discovery of a Northwest Passage—a land route across the continent—in order to establish an American fur trade with China. In addition, the Corps of Northwestern Discovery, as the expedition was called, cataloged new plant and animal life, and performed detailed ethnographic research on the Indians they encountered. This fascinating book lays out how that ethnographic research became the legal basis for Indian removal practices implemented decades later, explaining how the Doctrine of Discovery became part of American law, as it still is today.
Author : Salish-Pend D'Oreille Culture Committee
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 48,11 MB
Release : 2008-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803216433
On September 4, 1805, in the upper Bitterroot Valley of what is now western Montana, more than four hundred Salish people were encamped, pasturing horses, preparing for the fall bison hunt, and harvesting chokecherries as they had done for countless generations. As the Lewis and Clark Expedition ventured into the territory of a sovereign Native nation, the Salish met the strangers with hospitality and vital provisions while receiving comparatively little in return. ø For the first time, a Native American community offers an in-depth examination of the events and historical significance of its encounter with the Lewis and Clark Expedition. The Salish People and the Lewis and Clark Expedition is a startling departure from previous accounts of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Rather than looking at Indian people within the context of the expedition, it examines the expedition within the context of tribal history. The arrival of non-Indians is therefore framed not as the beginning of the history of Montana or the West but as only a recent chapter in a far longer Native history. The result is a new understanding of the expedition and its place in the wider context of the history of Indian-white relations. ø Based on three decades of research and oral histories, this book presents tribal elders recounting the Salish encounter with Lewis and Clark. Richly illustrated, The Salish People and the Lewis and Clark Expedition not only sheds new light on the meaning of the expedition but also illuminates the people who greeted Lewis and Clark and, despite much of what followed, thrive in their homeland today.
