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Volume 3: "Diplomacy on the Plains"
State(s): South Dakota
Journal Sections: Aug. 28 - late Sept., 1804
From: Chamberlain - to Pierre
Roads: Hwys 50-1806
Route:
Start tape as leave Chamberlain on Hwy 50. Turn off production
after 5-minute intro and restart as leave Lower Brule on BIA 10
to Hwy 1806.
Recommended
Route:
Hwy 83 north to Hwy 12 west to Mobridge and Hwy 1804 north
to Bismarck.
Content Highlights:
· Friendly meeting w/
Yankton Sioux
· Four day marathon meeting w/ Teton Sioux
· Lack of interpreter
· Cruzatte learns of plot from Omaha prisoner
· Several critical points of near conflict
· Sioux culture
· North Dakota border, meeting w/ Arikara tribe
· Successful meeting
· Arikara culture
· Particularly impressed w/ York
· York interaction w/ tribes
· National Scenic Byway
Volume 3 highlights several early
watershed moments for the Corps. The party's meetings with two
powerful Sioux tribes - the Yankton and Teton peoples -the ups
and downs of diplomacy between the visitors and their hosts. The
captains' failure to retain a competent interpreter for their
meeting with the Teton Sioux was amongst the more glaring mistakes
of the expedition. At the same time, the strength of purpose shown
by captains and crew when faced with confrontation won them grudging
respect and served them well in later months as the stories traveled
up river ahead of them. We'll hear from members of today's Yankton
Sioux tribe, and investigate details of the cultures of the Sioux
and Arikara people as they existed 200 years ago. Particularly
we'll look at the tribes' interactions with York as described
in the journals and cultural history of the native people. USFS
National Grasslands info.
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