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Chapter Six

Chapter Six. 26 October 1804 to 7 April 1805. October 1804. Visited a Native American village containing 40-50 lodges Local accidently set the prairie on fire, killing two Lewis delivers a speech to the locals

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Chapter Six

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  1. Chapter Six 26 October 1804 to 7 April 1805

  2. October 1804 • Visited a Native American village containing 40-50 lodges • Local accidently set the prairie on fire, killing two • Lewis delivers a speech to the locals • Gave gifts to the local chiefs and natives such as clothes, flags, and a steel corn mill for grinding corn

  3. November 1804 • Spent in North Dakota region • Built cabins to stay at for the winter • Clark and Ordway document seeing the Northern Lights • Received buffalo robes from a Native

  4. December 1804 • Natives who “appeared civil and good natured” visited their cabins. • They welcomed the natives and gave them food and tobacco • Reported temperatures at 45 degrees below zero • More natives came willing to trade anything for corn, beans and moccasins

  5. January 1805 • Celebrated New Years day with drinking and dancing • The Mandans perform a Buffalo Dance to call upon buffalos • Hunts for buffalo resulted in frostbite, game was scarce • On a visit, Lewis observed the Mandans worshiping a buffalo head and feeding it meat in return for live buffalo • Small Pox • Natives offered a lot of corn and food for blacksmith work • Lewis amputates a native boy’s toes due to frostbite

  6. February 1805 • Sacagawea gives birth and is assisted by Lewis in speeding the delivery by giving her crushed rattlesnake rattles

  7. March 1805

  8. April 1805

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