Shaw Creek Rec. Area, SD The morning is spent parleying and trading with the Arikaras. At 1 pm, with the sounding horn and fiddle playing, the expedition heads up the Missouri River.
Pachtüwa-Chtä. An Arrikkara Warrior
Karl Bodmer (1809–1893)
Rare Book Division, The New York Public Library.[1]“Pachtüwa-Chtä, Arrikkara Krieger. Pachtüwa-Chtä, Geurrier Arrikkara. Pachtüwa-Chtä, Arrikkara Warrior.” New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed 9 March 2019. … Continue reading
Gifts from the Indians[2]Originally aired weekdays by Yellowstone Public Radio during the Bicentennial observance of 2003-2006. Narrated by Hal Hansen. Scripts by Whit Hansen and Ed Jacobson. Produced by Leni Holliman. © … Continue reading
Usual Ceremony
We proceeded to the 3rd Chiefs Village which is the largest, after the usial Seremoney of Eating Smokg. &. he Spoke to near the Same amount of the last Chief, & more pleasently, he gave us 10 bushels of Corn, Some Beens & Simmins, after he had Spoken, and [I] gave Some Sketches of the Power & Magnitude of Our Countrey,
—William Clark
The Arikara
The Ricaras [Arikaras] Are about 500 men Mr. Taboe [Pierre-Antoine Tabeau] say 600 able to bear arms, and the remains of ten different tribes of Panias reduced by the Small Pox & wares [wars] with the Sioux . . . . Dress of the men of this nation is Simply a pr. mockerson, Leagins, flap in front & a Buffalow roabe, with ther arms & ears Deckorated
—William Clark
Fiddle and Sounding Horn
about 1 oClock we Set off the fiddle playing & the horns Sounding &.C.
—John Ordway
Additional Exchanges
The Rickores we put off dureing the time we were at the Towns but 2 Handsom young Squars were Sent by a man to follow us, they Came up this evening and peresisted in their Civilities.
—John Ordway
A Few Cheyenne
I Saw Some of the [Cheyenne] Indians, also a man of a nation under the Court new— This nation is at war with the Crow Indians & have 3 Children prisoners.
—William Clark
Indian Tobacco
Nicotiana quadrivalvis
© 2018 by Kristopher K. Townsend. Permission to use granted under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
Indian Tobacco
No. 45. Specimen of the Ricara’s tobacco
12th of October at the Ricare’s town. This is the tobacco which they cultivate—
—Meriwether Lewis[3]Nicotiana quadrivalvis, Moulton, ed. Herbarium, specimen 114.
Weather Diary
Thermot. at rise
Weather Wind at thermotr. at 4 P.M. Weather Wind at 4 oC P.M. 42 fair S 65 fair S. E. receved the present of corn from the 3rd Cheif and the answers from both the 2d & 3rd. recieved the corn from 2d last evening obtained 20 bushe[l]s. set out at 2 in the evening.
—Meriwether Lewis[4]To assist the reader, the editor of this web page has omitted the “day of the month” column and spelled out some abbreviations.
Notes
| ↑1 | “Pachtüwa-Chtä, Arrikkara Krieger. Pachtüwa-Chtä, Geurrier Arrikkara. Pachtüwa-Chtä, Arrikkara Warrior.” New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed 9 March 2019. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-c40f-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99. |
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| ↑2 | Originally aired weekdays by Yellowstone Public Radio during the Bicentennial observance of 2003-2006. Narrated by Hal Hansen. Scripts by Whit Hansen and Ed Jacobson. Produced by Leni Holliman. © 2003 by Yellowstone Public Radio. |
| ↑3 | Nicotiana quadrivalvis, Moulton, ed. Herbarium, specimen 114. |
| ↑4 | To assist the reader, the editor of this web page has omitted the “day of the month” column and spelled out some abbreviations. |
