Word: arikara
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Although Clark took York for granted, the Native Americans were intrigued by him. The Arikara Indians were "much asstonished at my Black Servent and Call him the big medison." This could create problems in Clark's eyes: "my black Servent...made him Self more turrible in thier view than I wished him to Doe...telling them that before I cought him he was wild & lived upon people." Yet Clark could play the York card when it served his purpose: "I ordered my black Servent to Dance which amused the Croud verry much...
Prairie grass ripples along the shores of North Dakota's Lake Sakakawea, and a fat rainbow shimmers overhead. Here, if Amy Mossett has her way, an $11 million interactive museum will soon welcome visitors to the Lewis and Clark trail. Mossett, tourism director for the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara tribes, is building replica earth lodges and planning sleep-in-a-teepee packages with ethno-botany hikes, buffalo-hide painting and lectures on tribal trade networks--insect repellent included. Her message: "Come and meet the descendants of the people who provided shelter to Lewis and Clark...
Many of those graves are Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara, village tribes that lived along the Missouri in what is now Standing Rock, when the Sioux were nomadic warriors. But with smallpox decimating their ranks, the Indian farmers were herded north to Fort Berthold reservation. There they rebuilt their villages, only to be displaced again in 1953 when Garrison Dam flooded their rich bottomlands. If they see an opportunity in the Lewis and Clark commemoration, it is because culture and economics are intertwined. The image of Amy Mossett dressed up as Sacagawea graces North Dakota tourist posters, but she says...