Posted by admin on October 28, 2009 under Lewis & Clark & Sacagawea Resources, Resources | 
Here is a nice article about the Corps of Discovery from EdGate and The Smithsonian:
The Expedition of the Corps of Discovery: An Overview of the Lewis and Clark Expedition -by Al Bredenberg
http://www.edgate.com/lewisandclark/expedition.html
The article also refers to 2 lesson plans:
The Men of the Corps of Discovery
http://www.edgate.com/lewisandclark/lesson_plans/LP_MenOfCorps.htm
Life on the Trail
http://www.edgate.com/lewisandclark/lesson_plans/LP_LifeOnTrail.htm
Posted by admin on October 27, 2009 under Fun Facts, Lewis & Clark & Sacagawea Fun Facts |
Twenty years before the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Thomas Jefferson hoped to mount the “Clark Expedition.” In 1783, Jefferson asked William Clark’s brother and Revolutionary War hero, George Rogers Clark, to lead a cross country expedition to explore the west. Clark declined the offer.
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It is not surprising that after their trip ended, the adventurers felt a lifelong debt to Sacagawea. In fact, Clark wrote to Charbonneau that Sacagawea deserved a greater reward than what the expedition gave her. His sense of indebtedness to Sacagawea is reflected a few years later when Clark accepted responsibility for educating Sacagawea’s son and, after Sacagawea’s death at the age of 25, for a daughter as well. Sacagawea’s grave is in Lander, WY.
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“Clarke saw Sacajawea, who was with her husband 100 yards ahead, began to dance and show every mark of the most extravagant joy, turning round him and pointing to several Indians, whom he now saw advancing on horseback, sucking her fingers at the same time to indicate that they were of her native tribe . . . Clark and Lewis soon after met with the chief. . . After this the conference was to be opened, and glad of an opportunity of being able to converse more intelligibly, Sacajawea was sent for; she came into the tent, sat down, and was beginning to interpret, when in the person of Cameahwait she recognised her brother: She instantly jumped up, and ran and embraced him, throwing over him her blanket and weeping profusely: The chief was himself moved, though not in the same degree. After some conversation between them she resumed her seat, and attempted to interpret for us, but her new situation seemed to overpower her, and she was frequently interrupted by her tears.”
For more quotes – please visit:
http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/FEATURE/lewisandclark/quotes.html
Posted by admin on October 26, 2009 under Fun Facts, Lewis & Clark & Sacagawea Fun Facts |
Thomas Jefferson’s intellectual curiosity drew him into an accelerating, three-hundred-year-old quest to find a water route to Asia, and he personally planned the successful expedition led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark from 1804 to 1806.
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