An important contribution to Indian ethnohistory and to the literature of the Lewis and Clark expedition
For me thebook that changed everything was John L. Allen's Passage through the Garden: Lewis and Clark and the Imageof the American Northwest, first published by the Universityof Illinois Press in1975. Reading it set me to studying ...
Two Nez Perce historians offer a detailed examination of the relationship between Corps of Discovery explorers and a single tribe, investigating what Lewis and Clark knew or misunderstood regarding the Nez Perce (Nimiipuu), searching for ...
A fresh look at the Lewis and Clark Expedition offers "landscape stories" representing the perspective of fur traders, explorers, Jefferson, and Native Americans.
Instead, they heeded an old woman who said, "Do them no harm!", marking the beginning of a unique friendship between the Nez Perce and the members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
At the heart of this landmark collection of essays rests a single question: What impact, good or bad, immediate or long-range, did Lewis and Clark’s journey have on the Indians whose homelands they traversed?
Index of preceding volumes of Lewis and Clark expedition.
It is also a template for a series of tribal histories of the Lewis and Clark expedition that will be inspired by this book.
The result is a new understanding of the expedition and its place in the wider context of the history of Indian-white relations. ø Based on three decades of research and oral histories, this book presents tribal elders recounting the ...
The book presents chronologically the writings - journal entries, reports and letters - of all the members of the Lewis and Clark expedition,allowing for examination the 215 days the Corps of Discovery spent in the state from several ...
This provocative work challenges traditional accounts of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark’s expedition across the continent and back again.