Sioux

so staunch were the men in their allegiance, and so trustworthy in the performance of their duties, that in only one other place in all the journals is there mention of an act of discipline.

this librivox recording is in the public domain recording by roger milleen lewis and clark by william r lighton chapter v with the sioux toward the end of august the party reached the sioux country some of the tribes of this nation were known to be friendly toward the whites while others had acquired a manner overbearing and insolent inspired by the inferior numbers of the traders who had visited them in the past and by the subservient attitude which these had assumed from such tribes there was good reason to anticipate opposition or even open hostility but the specific nature of their mission made the officers desirous of a personal meeting with all tribes irrespective of their past reputation there was a saying familiar to western folk show an indian that you are afraid of him and he will give you reason for fear the travelers were not afraid they adopted the custom of the traders and set fire to the dry grasses of the prairie intending that the smoke should notify the indians of their approach and summon them to the river Shortly before this they had encountered upon the river one Pierre Dorion, a half-breed son of the notable old Dorion, whose fame is celebrated in Irving's Astoria.

This man was then on his way to St. Louis, but was persuaded to return with the expedition to his home among the Sioux, there to act as interpreter and intermediary, in which service he proved useful.

Relations with the Sioux began on the 29th of August.

THE MEETING WAS ATTENDED WITH ELABORATE CEREMONIES.

ONE OF THE NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS WAS DISPATCHED WITH DORION TO A VILLAGE TWELVE MILES DISTANT FROM THE CAMP, TAKING PRESENTS OF TOBACCO, CORN, AND COOKING UTENSILS.

THERE HE WILL BUILD CANOES, GO DOWN THAT RIVER WITH SEVEN OF HIS PARTY, AND WAIT AT ITS MOUTH TILL THE REST OF THE PARTY JOIN HIM.

SERGEANT PRIOR, WITH TWO OTHERS, WILL THEN TAKE THE HORSES BY LAND TO THE MANDENS.

On August the 29th, they encountered a large gathering of indigenous peoples.

They were Yankton Sioux.

The Americans presented gifts and medals.

The Yanktons accepted them.

If Britain could establish a powerful alliance with the Indigenous nations of the Interior, American expansion west of the Mississippi could be contained.

and by 1805 the possibility was beginning to take shape.

The Sioux began exploring the possibility of closer relations with the British.

The idea was extraordinary.

Chance had on this occasion proved a failure, and the man had already shown many symptoms of worthlessness.

He had served as a soldier in an American corps raised by a certain hatch to hold in check the Sioux after the massacre in Minnesota in 1862.

A raid made by nine troopers of this corps against an Indian tent occupied by some dozen women and children appears to have been the most noteworthy event of the history of Hatch's battalion.

Having surrounded the wigwam in the night, these cowards shot the miserable inmates, then scalping and mutilating their bodies they returned to their comrades, bearing the gory scalp locks as trophies of their prowess.

Hatch is said to have at once forwarded to Washington a dispatch announcing a decisive victory over the Sioux by the troops under his command.

But a darker sequel to the tale must remain in shadow, for if the story told to a Breton missionary rests on a base of truth, the history of human guilt may be searched in vain for a parallel of atrocity.

I had other companions beside this C. Devant trooper of a far more congenial nature to share my spare time with.

It is only today, three hundred seventy years after a Portuguese sailor killed and captured a band of harmless Indians, and three hundred fifty since a Spanish soldier first beheld a herd of buffaloes beyond the meadows of the Mississippi, that the long, hopeless struggle of the wild dwellers of the wilderness may be said to have reached its closing hour.

My company was one of those stationed at Fort Filkearney, commanded by Colonel Carrington.

The country is more or less familiar with the history of that garrison, particularly with the slaughter by the Sioux of a detachment of eighty-one men and officers, not one escaping, through disobedience of orders by its commander, the brave but reckless Captain Fetterman.

When that occurred, I was trying to make my way with important dispatches to Fort C. F. Smith on the Bighorn.

As the country swarmed with hostile Indians, I travelled by night, and concealed myself as best I could before daybreak.

In the 1800s, we had the colonial diet was very high meat, and that was, you know, dairy maids and high dairy.

And same with Sioux Indians with buffalo meat.

And they were not having heart attacks or strokes.

And they, in fact, they were a few inches taller than the redcoats who were already having a lot of carbs.

On March 18th, 1956, CBS broadcast the ninth episode of Fort Laramie, The Beasley Girls.

Raymond Burr stars as Captain Lee Quince in a story set at Fort Laramie and in Sioux country around Lodgepole Creek.

After a Sioux attack devastates a wagon train and leaves the Beasley girls missing, Quince seeks their return without ordering a direct assault.

He proposes an exchange of Big Elk, a Sioux chief held at the fort, for the captives, while hostility toward the prisoner within his own command puts that effort under pressure.

Kathleen Height wrote the script, Norman MacDonald produced and directed with Sam Edwards, Lawrence Dobkin, Lou Krugman, James Newser, and Lillian Buyeff.

Here is the original broadcast.

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