Mandan

Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, Sacagawea, me, and others were sent by Thomas Jefferson to explore the newly purchased Louisiana Territory. Our expedition into the Louisiana Territory was not only to explore but record information about the land and find the source of the Missouri-northwest passage- make peace with the Indians as well. This expedition started in 1804 and ended in 1806 which is two and a half or twenty eight months. The expedition was from St.Louis , Missouri to the Pacific…

Cheyenne Paragraph The Cheyenne were a powerful,resourceful Native American Indian tribe.They often allied with Sioux and Arapaho.The Cheyenne settled along the Missouri River near the Mandan and Arikara tribes.The most Famous chiefs in the Cheyenne tribe included Dull Knife,Chief Roman Nose and Morning Star.There are a band of warriors called the Cheyenne Dog Soldiers.They were extremely courageous and fight to their death to protect their people. They migrated west across the Mississippi…

June 13, 1805 I become the first white man to ever see the Great Falls, which the Indians had told me to look for because it meant that I was near the Missouri River. When I got there, their was a total of five falls, all together. Each falls measuring about 12 miles. Once we were there we had to leave and continue on our journey. Unexpectedly it took us one month to pass the falls. What was on the other side of the falls were the Rocky mountains. June 30, 1805, we have discovered a new…

As Lewis and i continued our journey we hoped to see horses nearby. Then we saw an Indian on horseback, it was the first time we saw an Indian since Fort Mandan. The Shoshone led us to the chief who ended up being the brother of Sacagawea. Sacagawea was helping us translate as we were bargaining with the Chief. As the price goes higher everyday to trade i ended up having to give my knife, pistol and one hundred rounds of ammunition. In exchange i got horses. Most of the horses were in poor…

Sacagawea If I could bring a famous person from history to come our classroom to talk, I would bring Sacagawea. If Sacagawea came to our classroom, we would talk about the important events in the beginning of her life. She would tell us about the famous journey she took with Lewis and Clark. Sacagawea would talk to us about the end of her life and the events in it. She had a very adventurous early life. Sacagawea was born in a Native American tribe called the Shoshone in 1788. Her…

The second piece of art that I choose, was when I first walked in to the museum and enter the main gallery / central gallery on the first floor of the Trickster Art Gallery it was display like painting. But, when in fact it was not a panting, but a Buffalo hide stretched out on a wooden frame, as it was traditionally for the hide to be stretched out, and hung on a wooden frame to be displayed in the tribe of the plain Indians. Also, as the buffalo was very important to plain Indians and was key…

daughter of a chief of a tribe named Shoshone. When she was 12, she was captured by an enemy tribe during a war and sold to a French Canadian trapper. He later made her his wife. Sacagawea and her husband lived along side with the Hidatsa and the Mandan tribe in the upper part of the Missouri…

fatigue. Along the way, Lewis kept a detailed journal and collected samples of plants and animals he encountered. Lewis and his expedition received assistance in their mission from many of the native peoples they met during their journey westward. The Mandans provided them with supplies during their first winter. It was during this time that expedition picked up two new members, Sacagawea and Touissant Charbonneau. The two acted as interpreters for the expedition and Sacagawea, Charbonneau’s…

Ocean”(Alder). These men were responsible for recording what they saw by drawing maps, and pictures of new plants and animals and learning from the Native Americans. They stayed near the Hidatsa village for five months through the winter and built Fort Mandan (Erdrich). During the winter, they hired Charbonneau and his Shoshone wife, Sacagawea to assist with the expedition. In February1805, Sacajawea gave birth to a son named Jean Baptist Carbonneau. In April 1805, before Jean Baptist was 2…

Reaching the Pacific ocean after a year of discovery was an accomplishment known historically around the world. Our team was brave enough to explore unknown territory, determined enough to travel 8,000 miles, clever enough to perfect cartography, and bold enough to lead almost 30 other men across the continent. I am Meriwether Lewis, and I am William Clark. I was born on August 1, 1770, in Caroline County, Virginia. I later became in charge of a rifle company where I began my adult life and…