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| Introduction: What Can We Learn from a Bicentennial? | |
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| The Indian Country | |
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| The Arrival of Horses Accelerates Trade and Cultural Change | |
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| The Acquisition of the Horse | |
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| A Brilliant Plan for Living: Creators | |
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| Legend of Poia | |
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| The Creation of the Nez Perces | |
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| First Creator and Lone Man | |
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| Our Lands and Our History | |
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| A Brilliant Plan for Living: Gifts | |
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| Red Stick Ceremony | |
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| Months of Year and Plants or Animals Expected Each Month | |
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| Finding Spirit Helpers | |
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| The Seasonal Round | |
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| "I Am So Thankful" | |
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| A Brilliant Plan for Living: Men and Women | |
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| Hidatsa Agriculture | |
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| The Men and the Women | |
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| My Family | |
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| Families and Clans at Fort Berthold | |
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| A Vast Network of Partners | |
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| Coyote's Trip to the East | |
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| Indian Country Diplomacy | |
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| Nez Perce Trade | |
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| Crossing the Indian Country | |
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| What Did the Americans Know? | |
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| Notes on the State of Virginia | |
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| Celebrating the New Year and Surviving the Winter with the Mandans, January 1805 | |
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| William Clark Describes New Year's Day 1805 | |
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| John Ordway Describes the New Year's Celebration | |
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| William Clark Describes the Mandan Buffalo Dance | |
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| Exploring the Explorers: Great Plains Peoples and the Lewis and Clark Expedition | |
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| Lewis and Clark among the Mandans and Hidatsas | |
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| Trading for Horses and Finding Their Way, August-September 1805 | |
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| William Clark on the Salish | |
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| Sergeant John Ordway on the Salish | |
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| Rescued by the Nez Perces | |
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| William Clark on His Encounter with the Nez Perces | |
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| Wotollen Tells of Red Bear | |
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| Aspects of Nez Perce Culture: Language, Territory, and the Annual Cycle | |
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| New Year's Day 1806 and the Oregon Winter | |
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| Meriwether Lewis Issues New Orders | |
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| Meriwether Lewis on the Clatsops | |
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| John Ordway on Relations with the Clatsops | |
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| Friends and Trading Partners on the Upper Columbia | |
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| William Clark Describes Meeting the Walla Wallas and Umatillas | |
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| Sergeant Ordway Describes the Umatillas | |
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| The Columbia River Trade Network | |
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| A Confrontation in Montana | |
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| Meriwether Lewis Describes a Violent Encounter with the Blackfeet | |
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| A Blackfeet Encounter | |
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| A Blackfeet Version of Their Encounter with the Americans | |
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| A New Nation Comes to the Indian Country | |
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| Two Views of Western North America | |
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| A Cartographic View of the West, 1844 | |
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| The United States, 1884 | |
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| The Fur Trade | |
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| The State of the Fur Trade, 1831 | |
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| An Overview of the Western Fur Trade | |
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| New Settlers | |
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| The Treaty of 1855 | |
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| American Attitudes toward Treaties | |
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| A Modern Indian Leader Reflects on the Treaty of 1855 | |
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| Miners | |
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| Nez Perce Views of the Land | |
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| A Nez Perce Historian on the Impact of Miners on His Tribe | |
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| Ranchers | |
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| Cattle for Indians | |
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| Indian Ranchers | |
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| Missionaries and Teachers | |
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| Schools as Places of Discipline and Instruction | |
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| The Indian Office and Blackfeet "Progress" | |
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| A Blackfeet Educator Discusses the Importance of Learning the Blackfeet Language | |
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| The Indian Country Today | |
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| Salmon Restoration | |
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| The Boldt Decision Recognizes a Treaty Right to Fish | |
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| Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation Statement on Salmon Restoration | |
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| The Role of Salmon in a Family and Tribe | |
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| Environmental Protection | |
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| Indian Commissioner Collier on the Wheeler-Howard Act, 1934 | |
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| A Modern Tribe Struggles to Protect the Environment | |
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| Language Preservation | |
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| Why Teach an Ancient Language? | |
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| Honoring Native Languages, Defeating the Shame | |
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| Founding a Blackfeet Immersion School | |
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| Education and Cultural Preservation | |
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| A Profile of a Tribally Chartered College | |
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| Tribal Museums Join the Task of Preserving Community Traditions | |
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| Voices of the Next Generation | |
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| Growing Up | |
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| Chief Coyote | |
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| Who Am I? | |
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| The Meaning of the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial for Native Americans | |
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| Five Native American Educators Reflect on the Lewis and Clark Expedition and Its Aftermath | |
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| Conclusion: Lewis and Clark Reconsidered: Some Sober Second Thoughts | |
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| Index | |