“I’ve lived in Sioux City all my life and this is the first time I’ve ever been here. This place is incredible!” Heidi Hutton, Sioux City More than a museum In addition to presenting the story of the Siouxland leg of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, the Center offers approximately...
Most of the land Lewis and Clark surveyed was already occupied by Native Americans. In fact, the Corps encountered around 50 different Native American tribes including the Shoshone, the Mandan, the Minitari, the Blackfeet, the Chinook and theSioux. Lewis and Clark developed a first contact prot...
The Lewis and Clark Expedition ostensibly began in February 1801 when PresidentThomas Jeffersonwrote a letter to Army commander GeneralJames Wilkinsonrequesting that LieutenantMeriwether Lewisbecome the President’spersonal secretary. Exploration of North America’s western half had long been a goal of the...
The Plains Sioux and U.S. Colonialism from Lewis and Clark to Wounded Kneedoi:10.1080/03612759.2005.10526484SmithDennyHistory Reviews of New Books
On this day, the Teton Sioux mistake the explorers for merchants and don’t like the idea of the Americans selling weapons to rival tribes up the Missouri River. A young Teton Sioux chief, trying to insert himself into the confrontation, feigns drunkenness and stumbles into Clark, who rashly...
Interestingly, Clark was Lewis’s commander in the initial days in the army. Jefferson Hires Lewis and Clark In 1801, Lewis was offered the role of secretary-aide by then-President Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson hired Lewis for his knowledge of the western part of the country as Jefferson ...
The Lewis and Clark party saw the Rocky Mountains for the first time on 26th May, 1805. They proceeded up the Missouri they eventually reached the Great Falls. Lewis recorded that the torrent was "300 yards wide and at least 80 feet high". It took the party 24 days to get around the...
In 1803, President Jefferson formed the “Corps of Discovery”, funded by the American Congress. Meriwether Lewis was a US Army captain, and was named leader. He chose William Clark as his second in command. They made a great team. Lewis was the frontiersman and the outdoorsman. He was ...
Did you know that men of the native tribes that Lewis and Clark encountered frequently offered their wives and daughters to the explorers? Or that the Corps of Discovery frequently ate dogs? Lewis and Clark got lost? These and other "believe-it-or-not" f
While Lewis and Clark expedition went through many places, it spent about two months in the Sioux City area from July through September 1804. TheLewis and Clark Interpretive Centershares the expedition stories with interactive exhibits,. It also features President Thomas Jefferson, Lewis and Clark,...