In the morning, the council started yesterday with the Yankton Sioux continues. Today, several Sioux give speeches, and Clark and Sgt. Ordway take notes. Trader Pierre Dorion is assigned a diplomatic mission to make peace with all the region’s Nations.
Speeches by the Indians
by Yellowstone Public Radio[1]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
Wahktágeli, Yankton Sioux Chief
Karl Bodmer (1809–1893)
Rare Book Division, The New York Public Library.[2]“Wahk-Tä-Ge-Li, Dacota-Krieger. Wahk-Tä-Ge-Li, Guerrier Dacota. Wahk-Tä-Ge-Li, a Sioux Warrior.” New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed February 22, 2019. … Continue reading
Gifts and Speeches
pleasant morning the Chiefs not ready to Speak till half past 7 o.C. at which time the talk of the chiefs beginning at the oldest the we-u-che—head chief, of the Bob Brulee tribe
—John Ordway
Arms and Ammunition Wanted
My Father — We are verry glad you would take pitty on them this Day, we are pore and have no powder and ball.
My Father. — We are verry Sorry our women are naked and all our children, no petiecoats or cloathes—
—The Shake Hand, first chief as recorded by William Clark
Siouan Diet
The Dar co tar or Sceouex rove & follow the Buffalow raise no corn or any thing else the woods & praries affording a Suffcency, the eat Meat, and Substitute the Ground potato which grow in the Plains for bread
—William Clark
Grizzly Claw Necklaces
Some of them had round their necks strings of the white bear’s claws, some of the claws three inches long.
—Patrick Gass
Dorion’s Diplomatic Mission
prepared a Commission for Mr. Darion [Pierre Dorion, Sr.] to make a peace with all the nations in the neighbourhood, Mahas [Omahas], Porncases [Poncas], Panie [Pawnee], Loups, Ottoes and Missouries [Otoes and Missourias]— & to take to the President Some of the Gt Chiefs of each nations who would accompany him
—William Clark
Four Akicita Survivors
in a battle with the Crow de Curbo Indians out of 22 of this Society 18 was killed, the remaining four was draged off by their friends, and are now here— they assocate together Camp together and are merry fellows
—William Clark
Notes
| ↑1 | 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. |
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| ↑2 | “Wahk-Tä-Ge-Li, Dacota-Krieger. Wahk-Tä-Ge-Li, Guerrier Dacota. Wahk-Tä-Ge-Li, a Sioux Warrior.” New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed February 22, 2019. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-c433-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99. |
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