“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 ...
While her degrees are in English, history was her second love; she has now read the majority of the books in the Center’s Lewis and Clark research library. Theresa produces year-round programs and activities and manages community outreach. She primarily an assistant to the Executive Director ...
Summitt The Plains Sioux and U.S. Colonialism From Lewis and Clark to Wounded Knee . By Jeffrey Ostler. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge, 2004. In this work on the Plains Sioux, Jeffery Ostler provides an engaging and thorough examination of how motives and decisions lead to intended and unintended...
Hunkpapa- a member of the Siouan people who constituted a division of the Teton Sioux and who formerly lived in the western Dakotas; they were prominent in resisting the white encroachment into the northern Great Plains Miniconju- a member of a group of Siouan people who constituted a division...
Lewis and Clark observed that the Yankton Sioux "will not suffer any trader to ascend the river, if they can possible avoid it; they have, heretofore, invariably arrested the progress of all those they have met with, and generally compelled them to trade at the prices, nearly which they th...
#28. Chamberlain Lewis & Clark Welcome Center & Rest Area Tripadvisor #28. Chamberlain Lewis & Clark Welcome Center & Rest Area - Rating: 4.5 / 5 (205) - Type of activity: Visitor Centers - Address: I-90, Chamberlain, SD 57325
the site was visited in 1804 by theLewis and Clark Expedition; Sergeant Charles Floyd, the expedition’s only fatality, was buried there (commemorated by a monument erected in 1960, the first U.S. national historic landmark). Laid out in 1848 byWilliam Thompsonof Illinois and initially known...
Initial United States contact with the Lakota during the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804-1806 was marked by a standoff. Lakota bands refused to allow the explorers to continue upstream, and the expedition prepared for battle, which never came. ...
Widening Benson Road to three lanes in each direction west of I-229 and two lanes in each direction east of I-229, from Lewis to Hall Avenues. The project, when completed, will have Sioux Falls’ first triple left turn lane from the I-229 northbound off-ramp onto westbound Benson Road....