Lewis and Clark
Describe the relations between the explorers and the Native Americans they met along the way. Were relations generally cordial or hostile, and were there significant differences in this regard among the different tribes? On February 28 1803, President Thomas Jefferson was granted a twenty five hundred dollar commission to embark on a revolutionary journey to the west. This un-chartered territory was to be explored by Meriwether Lewis and his friend William Clark. Due to popular belief Lewis and Clark were not the first inhabitants of this western destiny, in fact people had been populating that region for generations. These "native" people were truly core in the experiences that the explorers had, throughout their journey the Corps of Discovery was forced to interact with and become educated in the Native American Society as well as their existing mentality. The relations and differences experienced on the expedition differed from one tribe to the next and the way in which this cultural connection unfolded truly sheds light on not only the importance of the journey but also the way in which we would deal with Native Americans in the future. Throughout the expedition Lewis and Clark developed a pa
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Approximate Word count = 1014
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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