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Hardcover Lewis and Clark Through Indian Eyes Book

ISBN: 1400042674

ISBN13: 9781400042678

Lewis and Clark Through Indian Eyes: Nine Indian Writers on the Legacy of the Expedition (Vintage)

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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? The nine writers in this volume each provide their own unique answers; from Pulitzer prize-winner N. Scott Momaday, who offers a haunting essay evoking the voices of the past; to Debra Magpie Earling's illumination of her ancestral family, their survival, and the magic they use to this day; to Mark N. Trahant's attempt to trace his own blood back to Clark himself; and Roberta Conner's comparisons of the explorer's journals with the accounts of the expedition passed down to her. Incisive and compelling, these essays shed new light on our understanding of this landmark journey into the American West. This description may be from another edition of this product.
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Customer Reviews

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Rated 5 stars
Those who learn not from history repeat it.

Most good ideas are simple, and, as the title of this book suggests, it is a simple collection of some extremely profound ruminations by Native Americans on the acts and impact of the Lewis and Clark expedition. Nine extremely well educated authors were asked to address the effects of the Corps of Discovery for its bicentennial. They are not representative of the man in the street. They may, however, have captured the...

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An impressively wide-ranging set of essays charting more than just their journeys

Plenty of history books tell the Lewis and Clark expedition story from different angles; but here for the first time is the other side of the story from nine descendants of the Native Americans whose homelands were traversed by the two intrepid explorers. From a newspaper editor who writes of his childhood belief he was descended from Clark to essays which reveal family encounters, tribal law, or the expedition's long impact...

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The Indians Have It

Only a man of the lifelong sense of fairness and perspective of Alvin Josephy could have had the idea of letting Indian historians weigh in on such a momentous event. Alvin Josephy's intimate association with these writers gives the title of editor way more weight that it would normally get. This is a very important book, the last effort of a historian committed to the Indian side of the story. He lived to finish it--as...

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Lewis and Clark through Indian Eyes

This is an important book. In 2001, I asked a Hidatsa woman working on the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial effort about sources concerning the Native American view of Lewis and Clark. She answered that there wasn't a source. Further, she said that no one person could write such a book. The tribes with whom Lewis and Clark made contact were different in many ways; including their forms of government and how they lived their...

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Seeing Lewis and Clark in a Different Light

Josephy has put together a strong cast of writers representing a number of tribes that interacted with the Corps of Discovery. The writers represent the Lakota, Salish, Kootenai, Shoshone-Bannock, Crow, Cayuse, Umatilla, Nez Perce, Walla Walla, Mandan-Hidatsa, Puyallup, Coeur d'Alene, Clatsop Nehalem, and Kiowa. These essays delve into their connection with the Corps, but also migrate towards the effects of those interactions...

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