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Great Plains Quarterly 24:4 (2004): 263–82.
  • The captains met on shore with three chiefs: Black Buffalo, Partisan and Buffalo Medicine, then took them out to the keelboat. When Clark returned the Chiefs to shore, several Tetons attempted to detain him. Clark drew his sword, the Tetons strung their bows, and Lewis readied the men for action.
  • Language barriers led to an armed confrontation, diffused largely through the efforts of Chief Black Buffalo. The expedition continued peacefully to the Pacific Ocean.
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  • Kevin S. Blake
August 19, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • the title of cheif is not hereditary, nor can I learn that there is any cerimony of instalment, or other epoh in the life of a Cheif from which his title as such can be dated.    in fact every man is a chief, but all have not an equal influence on the minds of the other members of the community, and he who happens to enjoy the greatest share of confidence is the principal Chief.
  • August 19, 1805
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
Weather, February 1805 - Clark, William; Lewis, Meriwether
  •   [25] Visited by the principall Chiefs of the Mar-har-ha (Hidatsa Indians, Awaxawi) & the Min-ne-tar-re (Hidatsa Indians) —Matehartar.—    also Mr.
  • Weather, February 1805
  • Journals
  • Clark, William; Lewis, Meriwether
October 8, 1805 - Whitehouse, Joseph
  • then proceeded on    a Short distance further down 2 chiefs came with us.    as we were descending a rockey rapids at the foot of an Island on which was Some Indian Camps, one of the canoes Struck a rock and wheled round then Struck again and cracked the canoe and was near Spliting hir in too.   
  • October 8, 1805
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  • Whitehouse, Joseph
July 14, 1806 - Clark, William
  • .) ; on Atlas map 106 it is rather curiously marked "Co ni-ah Fork Clatsop (Clatsop Indians) Chief." For Coboway (Coni-ah) (Coboway) , see December 12, 1805. Atlas map 113.
  • July 14, 1806
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  • Clark, William
April 2, 1806 - Clark, William
  • A portion of this sentence, from "Several articles" to the end, appears to have been substituted for some erasures. Perhaps the "Friendly old chief" of this village who assisted William Broughton (Broughton, William Robert) of Vancouver's (Vancouver, George) British expedition in 1792.
  • David Thompson (Thompson, David) met a blind chief being rowed by two slaves in a canoe in the same vicinity the same year.
  • April 2, 1806
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  • Clark, William
April 12, 1806 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • the covering of the houses appears to have been sunk in a pond back of the village.    this the chief informed us was the residence occasionally of his tribe.    these houses are fraimed in the usual manner but consist of a double set as if oune house had been built within the other.   
  • April 12, 1806
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
May 5, 1806 - Clark, William
  • to this man we gave a Medal of the Small Size with a likeness of the President.    he may be a great Chief but his Countinance has but little inteligence and his influence among his people appears very inconsiderable.   
  • May 5, 1806
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  • Clark, William
August 14, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • the strong parts of the ideas are seldom mistaken. I now prevailed on the Chief to instruct me with rispect to the geography of his country.   
  • W. and refered me to an old man then present for that to the S. W.—    the Chief further informed me that he had understood from the persed nosed Indians (Nez Perce Indians) who inhabit this river below the rocky mountains (Rocky Mountains) that it ran a great way toward the seting sun and finally lost itself in a great lake of water which was illy taisted, and where the white men lived.
  • I now told Cameahwait (Cameahwait) that I wished him to speak to his people and engage them to go with me tomorrow to the forks of Jeffersons river (Beaverhead (Jefferson) River) where our baggage was by this time arrived with another Chief and a large party of whitemen who would wait my return at that place.   
  • August 14, 1805
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
April 29, 1806 - Clark, William
  • Fish Weir, April 29, 1806, Voorhis No. 3 Missouri Historical Society We gave Small Medals to two inferior Chiefs of this nation, and they each furnished us with a fine horse, in return we gave them Sundery articles among which was one of Capt Lewis's (Lewis, Meriwether) Pistols & Several hundred rounds of Amunition.   
  • April 29, 1806
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  • Clark, William
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 85:2 (1961): 163–77.
  • Lewis had arrived in Washington in late December accompanied by a picturesque Mandan chief, had been lionized at public functions, had heard a public reading of a eulogistic poem written by Joel Barlow, and then had been appointed governor of the Territory of Louisiana.
  • During the bothersome business of getting the Mandan chief back to his village against the opposition of the Arikaras, Lewis executed some drafts that were not honored by the Secretary of War, and his personal finances suffered.
  • When Lewis arrived in Washington on Dec. 28, 1806, his party included Sheheke or Big White, a chief of the Mandans, with his family and an interpreter. It would be nearly three years before Sheheke could return home.
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  • DONALD JACKSON
June 8, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • Fidler (Fidler, Peter) obtained his information in 1801 from a map drawn for him by Ackomokki (Ackomokki (The Feathers)) , a Blackfeet (Blackfeet Indians) chief. Fidler (Fidler, Peter) placed the rivers and mountains too far south because his estimate of distance was based on Indian information, expressed in terms of days' travel, rather than miles.
  • June 8, 1805
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
May 27, 1806 - Clark, William
  • The Indians were so anxious that the Sick Chief (who has lost the use of his limbs) Should be Sweted under our inspection they requested me to make a 2d attempt to day; accordingly the hole was enlargened and his father a very good looking old man performed all the drugery &c.   
  • May 27, 1806
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  • Clark, William
October 27, 1804 - Clark, William
  • Jessomme (Jusseaume, René) of the Chiefs of the Different Nations Course Distance 27th West 2 Miles to a bind on the L.
  • October 27, 1804
  • Journals
  • Clark, William
Weather, November 1804 - Clark, William; Lewis, Meriwether
  • Cheif of the little Vilage grosventres (Hidatsa Indians) . 26th wind bleue verry hard, visited the upper camp of the big bellies (Hidatsa Indians) and returned to the lower camp where I had slept the preceeding night— 27th much drift ice running in the river—    returned to (camp) the fort in company with two chiefs and a warrior 28th the Indians left us late in the evening on their return 29th the snow fell 8 inches deep—    it drifted in heeps in the open growns—    visited by Mr.
  • November 1804
  • Journals
  • Clark, William; Lewis, Meriwether
March 19, 1806 - Clark, William
  • Pryor (Pryor, Nathaniel Hale) Could not Pay his Canoes. The Clatsop (Clatsop Indians) Chief Commowool (Coboway) and the two Cath-lah-mah (Cathlamet Indians) s left us this evening and returned to their village.
  • March 19, 1806
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  • Clark, William
September 17, 1806 - Clark, William
  • there to form an establishment from which to trade partially with the Panas (Pawnee Indians) & Ottoes (Oto Indians) , to form an acquaintance with the Panias (Pawnee Indians) and provail Some of their principal Chiefs to accompany him to Santa Fee (Santa Fe, N. Mex.) where he will apear in a stile calculated to atract the Spanish government in that quarter and through the influence of a handsome present he expects to be promited to exchange his merchindize for Silver & gold of which those people abound.   
  • September 17, 1806
  • Journals
  • Clark, William
Montana 29:3 [1979]: 16–27.
  • According to the Coues edition of the history of the expedition, on January 13, 1805, Charbonneau arrived back from a trip to the lodges of some Minatarees and informed Lewis and Clark, that the agents of the Hudson's Bay Company at that place had been endeavoring to make unfavorable impressions with regard to us on the mind of the great chief, and the Northwest Company intended building a fort there. The great chief had in consequence spoken slightly of the Americans, but said that if we would give him our great flag he would come and see us.
  • The Missouri Fur Company's first venture to the upper Missouri not only inaugurated the company's trade, but it also escorted Mandan Chief Shahaka to his village. On arrival in the fall of 1809, the company built a fort near the villages.
  • "Made Beaver" (MB) was the HBC's basic unit of exchange. Since beaver was the chief fur dealt with by the Company, it was made the standard to regulate the value of all other types of pelts and trade goods.
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  • John A. Alwin
The Way to the Western Sea Lewis and Clark across the Continent
  • Actually the defection did not matter much, for the two Nez Percé chiefs, Twisted Hair and Tetoharsky, had already taken over as river guides and ambassadors of good will among the stream-side Indians.
  • Although salmon were an important part of the economy of the Sahaptians, and especially of the Nez Percé, their chief orientation was toward the grassy, untimbered land where their horse herds ranged.
  • Another trade article in great demand was produced by a Chinook madam, wife of a chief, who showed up with six of her daughters and nieces "for the purpose of gratifying the passions of our men."
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  • David Lavender
August 25, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • the two inferior cheifs said that they wished to assist me and be as good as their word, and that they had not sent for their people, that it was the first Chief who had done so, and they did not approve of the measure.    Cameahwait (Cameahwait) remained silent for some time, at length he told me that he knew he had done wrong but that he had been induced to that measure from seeing all his people hungary, but as he had promised to give me his assistance he would not in future be worse than his word.
  • August 25, 1805
  • Journals
  • Lewis, Meriwether
October 21, 1805 - Clark, William
  • Side of this as well as the waters of Lewis's (Lewis (Cahwahnakiooks) River) River (Lewis (Cahwahnakiooks) River) is their fear of the Snake (Paiute Indians) Indians who reside, as they nativs Say on a great river to the South, and are at war with those tribes, 〈our to〉 one of the Old Chiefs who accompanies us pointed out a place on the lard. Side where they had a great battle, not maney years ago, in which maney were killed on both Sides—, one of our party J.
  • October 21, 1805
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  • Clark, William
October 22, 1805 - Clark, William
  • on one of those Island I saw Several tooms but did not visit them— The principal Chiefs of the bands resideing about this Place is out hunting in the mountains to the S.
  • October 22, 1805
  • Journals
  • Clark, William
November 24, 1805 - Clark, William
  • Time       distance  h    m      s      6    16    46   67°   56'   30"  "     19    29    "      54    15  "     25    39    "      50    45  "     28    20    "      50    15  "     31    53    "      48    30 〈"    37    51〉   〈blocked〉 The old chief of Chinn-nook (Chinook Indians) nation and Several men & women Came to our camp this evening & Smoked the pipe Sergt J.
  • November 24, 1805
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  • Clark, William
May 29, 1806 - Clark, William
  • the Child, and the Indian Cheaf are also on the recovery. the Chief has much more use of his hands and arms.    he washed his face himself today.
  • May 29, 1806
  • Journals
  • Clark, William
September 3, 1806 - Clark, William
  • He was involved with Aaron Burr (Burr, Aaron) in whatever conspiracies Burr (Burr, Aaron) had in progress, but when Burr was tried for treason in 1807 Wilkinson (Wilkinson, James) was the chief witness against him, narrowly escaping indictment himself. Wilkinson (Wilkinson, James) held an important command on the Canadian border in the War of 1812 and was notably unsuccessful.
  • September 3, 1806
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  • Clark, William
November 1, 1805 - Clark, William
  • S. 20° W.     2 Miles to a high rock on the Lard Side    passed through a narrow Chanel on The Stard. of a large rock which di- vides the Chanel at 1 mile. (Saw a Chief) N. 60° W.     1 Mile to a high rock in a Stard.
  • West Cataract river (Klickitat (Cataract) River)       ☞     8 Miles to a rock Island near the middle of the river at 1 mile is a friendly Village of 7 houses of the Chil luck it te quar (Wishram-Wasco Indians) Nation and the residance of their great Chief—    at 5 miles passed the mouth of a River which we call Cata- ract (Klickitat (Cataract) River) river 60 yards wide on the Std. side below the mouth of which is a Village of 11 houses of the Chil luck it te quar (Wishram-Wasco Indians) nation S. 60° W.     5 Miles to a rock Island in a Lard Bend, passd. 2 rocks in the river    passed 2 houses on the Std. side at 1 mile; and 2 houses at 4 miles on the Stard.
  • November 1, 1805
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  • Clark, William
Weather, April 1805 - Clark, William; Lewis, Meriwether
  • .— 7th Visited by a Ricara (Arikara Indians) Chief    wind very high.    set out on our voyage at 5 P. M.    encampt a 4 me.
  • Weather, April 1805
  • Journals
  • Clark, William; Lewis, Meriwether
April 11, 1806 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • I hope that the friendly interposition of this chief may prevent our being compelled to use some violence with these people; our men seem well disposed to kill a few of them.   
  • April 11, 1806
  • Journals
  • Lewis, Meriwether
The Way to the Western Sea Lewis and Clark across the Continent
  • The oration advised the natives of the agreement whereby the chief of the seventeen nations of America (he meant the seventeen states that made up the Union) replaced the old fathers of the Indians.
  • It was said, too, that White Hairs was the creature of Pierre Chouteau, who had helped him usurp the rights of the Osages' legitimate head chief. Pierre Chouteau, opportunist extraordinaire. His firm provided the delegation with supplies that cost the United States $4,749.79.
  • Drouillard and Colter found the horses, and at sunset the trader, whose name Clark rendered as Fairfong, arrived with fourteen male Indians, six of them minor chiefs. All, probably, were on horseback. There was no sign of La Liberté, though the Indians said he had left their camp a day ahead of them.
  • N.D.
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  • David Lavender
October 17, 1805 - Clark, William
  • Clark October 17th Thursday 1805 A fair morning    made the above observations during which time the principal Chief came down with Several of his principal men and Smoked with us.
  • October 17, 1805
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  • Clark, William
May 8, 1806 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • to obtain our horses and saddles as quickly as possible is our wish, and we are somewhat apprehensive that this difference which has taken place between these Chiefs may millitate against our operations in this rispect.    we were therefore desireous to bring about a good understanding between them as soon as possible.   
  • May 8, 1806
  • Journals
  • Lewis, Meriwether
Part 5: Missouri River Miscellany - Clark, William
  • 〈The method〉 What is their Form of Carrying on War & making peace The Different nations have peculiarities of their own—    The Me ne tarras (Hidatsa Indians) when a Chief intends to go to war he makes a feest & Some one man informs of his intentions in a harrang, & at the time they Set out it is not known by those that go how maney the party will Consist, the leave the village at Different times 〈Chiefly〉 Prompally at night and meet a Some given point—    on their return they enter their village with great pomp if they are suckcessfull, if not they Steel in as they went out.   
  • Their Laws & Government & Similarity of Language & The Sioux (Sioux Indians) have regular police 〈no Stationary〉 no fixed Laws but what is brought on by Custom, and all the other nations have no other Laws    the Good or bad government of the nations are owing and Depend in a great measure on the dispositions & Correctness of the Chiefs who are feared by the majority—    all nations Harrang.    Genl. the old men perform this Service by the derection of the Cheifs In all the languages of the Different nations on the Missouri (Missouri River) maney words are the Same, The Osage (Osage Indians) , Kanzas (Kansa Indians) , Mahars (Omaha Indians) & Poncars (Ponca Indians) speak the Same language with different promouncation and Some words Different    The Pania (Pawnee Indians) , Loups (Pawnee Indians, Loup or Skiri) , Republican (Pawnee Indians, Republican or Kitkahahki) , Pania Pickey (Wichita (Pawnee Pick) Indians) and Ricaras (Arikara Indians) Speake the Same Language with much [Coruptn?]
  • Winter 1804-1805
  • Journals
  • Clark, William
The Way to the Western Sea Lewis and Clark across the Continent
  • Plus several peace and friendship medals of varying sizes and designs, to be passed out to deserving chiefs as tokens of esteem from President Jefferson. The more powerful the chief, the bigger the medal.
  • In order to determine whether the villages lay in Spanish or English territory, the North West Company of Canada sent its chief astronomer, David Thompson, south to make the necessary observations.
  • N.D.
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  • David Lavender
August 20, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • Clark (Clark, William) set out at 6 in the morning and soon after arrived near their camp they having removed about 2 miles higher up the river than the camp at which they were when I first visited them.    the chief requested a halt, which was complyed with, and a number of the indians came out from the village and joined them    after smoking a few pipes with them they all proceeded to the village where Capt C.
  • August 20, 1805
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
August 22, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • this was thankfully received by them.    the Chief wished that his nation could live in a country where they could provide such food.
  • August 22, 1805
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
August 24, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • I was one day addressing some cheifs of the Minetares (Hidatsa Indians) wo visited us and pointing out to them the advantages of a state of peace with their neighbours over that of war in which they were engaged.    the Chiefs who had already geathered their havest of larals, and having forceably felt in many instances some of those inconveniences attending a state of war which I pointed out, readily agreed with me in opinion.   
  • August 24, 1805
  • Journals
  • Lewis, Meriwether
Great Plains Quarterly 17.3–4 (1997): 165–84.
  • The Native maps drawn for Fidler in 1801 and 1802 by Ackomokki, Kioocus, Ackoweeak (three "Blackfoot chiefs") and an unnamed "Fall Indian" were the last stage of this transmission.
  • An early example survives from the captains' outward journey, drawn by the Mandan chief Sheheke in January 1805. The Native trellis pattern persists on Clark's copy, but the explorer has transcribed each of these rivers as a regularly undulating line, a compromise between Native design and European convention that is repeated many times on his 1810 map.
  • We need to remember that Lewis and Clark came west laden with scientific baggage, the chief elements of which were not their instruments but their preconceptions: their "logical and theoretical constructions," to use Allen's phrase again.
  • N.D.
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  • Barbara Belyea
May 14, 1804 - Gass, Patrick
  • This tract from its situation may be supposed to contain the chief part of those lands in the great western division of the continent of North America fit for tillage: and this circumstance will therefore in a special manner claim the attention of an agricultural people, render more interesting a description of them, and attach additional value to the history of the country.
  • May 14, 1804
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  • Gass, Patrick
The Way to the Western Sea Lewis and Clark across the Continent
  • On the surface affairs went smoothly. The principal chief of the band, Cameahwait, was an exceptional individual. After meeting him Clark described him as having "Influence sence & easy & reserved manners, appears to possess a great deal of Cincerity."
  • He added water and berries to the breakfast portion, cooked it, and distributed the results among the four scouts and Cameahwait. The chief liked the new food and his new friends, but not all his people shared his trust in them.
  • Lewis himself boiled, in a small amount of water, the whites' last pound of flour and divided it among his men, Cameahwait, and a lesser chief. The next morning no one had anything to eat. Faced with the general discontent, Lewis sent Drouillard and Shields out for game, though they had not been able to produce anything during the past few days.
  • N.D.
  • Texts
  • David Lavender
October 10, 1805 - Clark, William
  • .: and one word illegible] on the Lard Side to view the riffle, haveing passed two Islands & six rapids Several of them verry bad—after view'g this riffle two Canoes were taken over verry well; the third Stuck on a rock which took us an hour to get her off which was effected without her receving a greater injurey than a Small Split in her Side which was repared in a Short time, we purchased fish & dogs of those people, dined and proceeded on—    here we met with an Indian from the falls at which place he Sais he Saw white people, and expressd an inclination to accompany us, we passd. a fiew miles above this riffle 2 Lodges and an Indian batheing in a hot bath made by hot Stones thrown into a pon of water. at this riffle which we Call ragid rapid (Reubens (Ragid) Rapids) took meridian altitude of the Suns upper Limb with Sextt. 74° 26' 0" Latd. produced [blank] North    at five miles lower and Sixty miles below the forks arived at a large Southerly fork which is the one we were on with the Snake (Shoshone Indians) or 〈Sho-Sho-ne (Shoshone Indians) 〉 So-So-nee (Shoshone Indians) nation (haveing passed 5 rapids)    This South fork or Lewis's River (Salmon (Lewis's, Main Fork Lewis's, Southeast Fork of Columbia, West Fork Lewis's) River) which has two forks which fall into it on the South the 1st Small the upper large and about 2 days march up imediately parrelal to the first villages we Came to and is called by those Indians Pâr-nash-te (Snake River Plain)    on this fork a little above its mouth resides a Chief who as the Indian Say has more horses than he can Count and further Sayeth that Louises River (Salmon (Lewis's, Main Fork Lewis's, Southeast Fork of Columbia, West Fork Lewis's) River) is navagable about 60 miles up with maney rapids at which places the Indians have fishing Camps and Lodjes built of an oblong form with flat ruffs.   
  • October 10, 1805
  • Journals
  • Clark, William
Lewis and Clark on the Great Plains A Natural History
  • There they camped for four days and held a council with the assembled chiefs of the Otoe-Missouria tribe. This council was the first held between the natives of the central Missouri Valley and the U.S. government, and the bluff was thus named Council Bluff.
  • N.D.
  • Texts
  • Paul A. Johnsgard
May 14, 1804 - Whitehouse, Joseph
  • .— The land adjoining the Town for several miles is level and chiefly priaries, and very thinly settled.    The chief of the Inhabitants are canadian french, and a few families of Americans.   
  • May 14, 1804
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  • Whitehouse, Joseph
August 23, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • the Indians have promised to do them no intentional injury and beleive they are too lazy at any rate to give themselves the trouble to raise them from their present situation in order to cut or birn them. I reminded the chief of the low state of our stores of provision and advised him to send his young men to hunt, which he immediately recommended to them and most of them turned out.
  • August 23, 1805
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
July 26, 1806 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • I told them that if they intended to do as I wished them they would send some of their young men to their band with an invitation to their chiefs and warriors to bring the whiteman with them and come down and council with me at the entrance of Maria's river (Marias River) and that the ballance of them would accompany me to that place, where I was anxious now to meet my men as I had been absent from them some time and knew that they would be uneasy untill they saw me.   
  • July 26, 1806
  • Journals
  • Lewis, Meriwether
J & MC Quarterly 80.4 (2003): 866–883
  • This was the army that Jefferson took over as commander-in-chief, upon his assumption of office in 1801. Jefferson had run for the presidency on a platform calling for even greater reductions; the discharge of the provisional army was not enough to satisfy the Republican demand for a minimum standing army.
  • N.D.
  • Texts
  • Donald Jackson
The Journals of Lewis and Clark: Almost Home
  • In fact, I was just completing editing the papers of Chief John Ross of the Cherokees, supported for four years by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) of the National Archives.
  • N.D.
  • Texts
  • Gary E. Moulton
Names 52:3 (September 2004):163–237 Copyright 2004 by The American Name Society 163
  • David Rice, "The Return of the Mandan Chief," Montana, the Magazine of Western History 29 (July 1979): 2–15.
  • N.D.
  • Texts
  • William E. Foley
The Way to the Western Sea Lewis and Clark across the Continent
  • He should arrange, if possible, to have influential chiefs visit the United States to see for themselves its power and richness.
  • N.D.
  • Texts
  • David Lavender
Part 2: Estimate of the Eastern Indians - Unknown
  • Esimtated # of Establishments in a Govtmt pt. of view—    Notations on Indian Names Sub Divisions of the Sioux (Sioux Indians) Bands & names of the principal Chiefs. Also on the reverse of the document are the words: "To Genl.
  • About three years since, nearly one half of this nation, headed by their chief the Big-Track (Big Track) , emigrated to the three forks of the Arkansas (Arkansas River) , near which, and on its north side, they established a village, where they now reside.
  • Winter 1804-1805
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  • Unknown
Lewis and Clark on the Great Plains A Natural History
  • There they camped for four days and held a council with the assembled chiefs of the Otoe-Missouria tribe. This council was the first held between the natives of the central Missouri Valley and the U.S. government, and the bluff was thus named Council Bluff.
  • N.D.
  • Texts
  • Paul A. Johnsgard

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