Animal heads and weapons made by the Mandan Indian tribe
Today, visitors to President Jefferson's home in the southeastern state of Virginia can see many things collected by Lewis and Clark. For example, Lewis used more than one thousand words to tell about one bird. These reports provided much detail about the land and what was on it. They also took Lewis and Clark's first maps, animals, plants and reports to President Jefferson. The soldiers took the larger of the three boats the group had used to follow the Missouri River. The smaller group of soldiers that had aided them during their trip to Fort Mandan prepared to return south to Saint Louis. In early April, the Corps of Discovery prepared to travel west. He was the youngest member of the Corps of Discovery. The baby, too, would make the long trip to the Pacific Ocean. Sacagawea gave birth to her son, Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, on FebruaryĮleventh, 1805. They knew that Sacagawea's presence with them would show Indians that the Corps of Discovery did not want to fight. Lewis and Clark knew that no Indian war group ever traveled with women. She had been captured as a young girl by another Indian tribe. She came from the Shoshoni tribe that lived near the Rocky Mountains in the far West. The first was that Charbonneau spoke several Indian languages. Lewis and Clark agreed to let them join their group for two reasons. He also asked if his Indian wife could come too. Mandan was the name of an Indian tribe that lived nearby.Īt Fort Mandan, Lewis and Clark met French Canadian hunter Toussaint Charbonneau. They named their winter home Fort Mandan. Lewis and Clark had traveled about 2,420 kilometers when they were stopped by the cold winter weather. It was one hundred sixty-four days into the trip. Their trip began on May fourteenth, 1804. Clark accepted and the two men agreed to act as equal leaders of the group they named the Corps of Discovery. Lewis asked his friend William Clark to join the group. The explorers were to report about the land, people, animals and plants they found. The president said Lewis and a group of men should travel northwest up the Missouri River as far as possible and then continue west to the Pacific Ocean. Last week we told how President Thomas Jefferson suggested the trip to his private secretary Meriwether Lewis. Their exploration in the early 1800s led to the opening of the American West. Today we continue our story of Lewis and Clark.
And this is Shirley Griffith, with the VOA Special English program, Explorations. He is not written about in a particularly favorable light.Opening the American West: Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Discoveryĭownload MP3 (Right-click or option-click the link.) He worked as a fur trapper and also an interpreter of the Hidatsa tribes when he settled among them. Her husband, Charbonneau, was a French-Canadian Trapper, originally from Quebec. He took her and another woman to be his wives though it is not known by what custom they were bound.ħ. At the tender age of 13, she was either bought or won in gambling by a man called Toussaint Charbonneau.
The kidnappers were an enemy tribe called the Hidatsa Indians (Minnetarees) who took the girls to what is the present-day North Dakota.Ħ. At that point, she would have been about 12 years old. Sacagawea was kidnapped along with several other girls in 1800. They were traditionally based near the Idaho upper Salmon River, hence the 'Eaters of Salmon' name.ĥ. She was born around 1788 as the daughter of a Lemhi Shoshone chief and was of the Akaitikka, Agaideka or Eaters of Salmon tribe. Not a great deal is known or recorded on her early years.
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