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Among those who speak: Newspaper editor Mark Trahant writes of his childhood belief that he was descended from Clark and what his own research uncovers. Award-winning essayist and fiction writer Debra Magpie Earling describes the tribal ways that helped her nineteenth-century Salish ancestors survive, and that still work their magic today. Montana political figure Bill Yellowtail tells of the efficiency of Indian trade networks, explaining how axes that the expedition traded for food in the Mandan and Hidatsa villages of Kansas had already arrived in Nez Perce country by the time Lewis and Clark got there a few months and 1,000 miles later. Umatilla tribal leader Roberta Conner compares Lewis and Clarks journal entries about her people with what was actually going on, wittily questioning Clarks notion that the natives believed the white men came from the cloudsin other words, they were gods. Writer and artist N. Scott Momaday ends the book with a moving tribute to the most difficult of journeys, calling it, in the truest sense, for both the men who entered the unknown and those who watched, a vision quest, with the visions gained being of profound consequence.
Some of the essays are based on family stories, some on tribal or American history, still others on the particular circumstances of a tribe todaybut each reflects the expeditions impact through the prism of the authors own, or the tribes, point of view.
Thoughtful, moving, provocative, Lewis and Clark Through Indian Eyes is an exploration of historyand a study of survivalthat expands our knowledge of our countrys first inhabitants. It also provides a fascinating and invaluable new perspective on the Lewis and Clark expedition itself and its place in the long history of our continent.
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LEWIS AND CLARK THROUGH INDIAN EYES
Outstanding. Unconventional, indeed revolutionary. The most compelling Lewis and Clark-related book I've ever read. It chal lenged almost every historical perspective I held about the expedi tion."
Matt Love, The Oregonian
"An entertaining retelling of the familiar tale."
The New Mexican
"An eye-opening perspective on [the Lewis and Clark expedition]. ntrancing."
The Lewiston Tribune (Idaho)
"From perspectives as diverse as the tribes whose lands Meriwether Lewis and William Clark traversed, these nine essays offer an other-side-of-the-coin view of that historic 1803 mission."
Publishers Weekly
"[A] unique and provocative collection."
Booklist
"Highly recommended. [An] eclectic collection."
Library Journal
"Diverse, fascinating, and a good read, this collection is a welcome addition to the growing literature on the exploration of the West in the nineteenth century"
Historical Novels Review
Alvin M. Josephy, Jr.
LEWIS AND CLARK THROUGH INDIAN EYES
Alvin M. Josephy, Jr., a leading historian of the American West, was the author of many award-winning books, including The Patriot Chiefs, The Indian Heritage of America, Now That the Buffalos Gone, The Civil War in the American West, America in 1492, 500 Nations, and A Walk Toward Oregon. He was a vice president and editor of American Heritage magazine, the founding chairman of the board of trustees of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, and president of the Western History Association. Josephy died in the fall of 2005, shortly after completing this book.
ALSO BY ALVIN M . JOSEPHY , JR .
The Patriot Chiefs: A Chronicle of American Indian Resistance
The Nez Perce Indians and the Opening of the Northwest
The Indian Heritage of America
Red Power
The Long and the Short and the Tall
The Artist Was a Young Man
Black HillsWhite Sky
On the Hill
Now That the Buffalo's Gone
The Civil War in the American West
America in 1492 (editor)
500 Nations: A History of North American Indians
A Walk Toward Oregon
T he idea for this book began to take form decades ago in the course of research for my book, The Nez Perce Indians and the Opening of the Northwest. It rapidly became clear that the voice of the Indians themselves was not sufficiently heard either in the scholarship or in the published writing about the history of the West. Not much has changed in the years since, which became abundantly clear as we approached the two hundredth anniversary of that undisputed major epic, Lewis and Clark's journey up the Missouri and across the Rockies to the shores of the Pacific. Once again, the Indian voice was virtually unheard in popular historical narrative, journalism, and even film treatments of the event. In 2003, with no full-fledged work by an Indian historian on the Lewis and Clark story in prospect at the time, these nine essays were commissioned over a period of months, resulting in a completed collection early in 2005.
There are many people whom I wish to thank for their invaluable help in bringing about a successful conclusion. First, my thanks to many Indian friends and colleagues, whose suggestions, ideas, and support over many years has been of inestimable help. I also wish to thank my immediate family: my daughters Diane Josephy Peavey Allison Wolowitz, and Katherine Josephy; my son, Alvin; and my cousin Wendy Cooper for their encouragement and advice, especially during the past two difficult years. Thanks also to Rich Wand-schneider of Joseph, Oregon, the executive director of Fishtrap, who was an early, energetic, and creative supporter of the project. And thanks to Ann Close, my editor at Knopf, for her sensitive editorial hand, and to her assistant, Millicent Bennett, for her patient shepherding, especially in the final stages of the publishing process.
And last, my thanks, without reservation, to Marc Jaffe, for his constant companionship in a very involved effort of editorial coordination, from the very beginning to this dateJuly 2005.
ALVIN M . JOSEPHY ,
JR . JOSEPH , OREGON
T he year 2003 marked the launch of a series of events commemorating the two hundredth anniversary of the journey of Meri-wether Lewis and William Clark and their carefully selected adventurers, called the Corps of Discovery. These events were planned, and were to be executed, under the direction of scores of national, regional, state, and local groups that included Indian and non-Indian political figures, historians, National Park Service officials, and others. Coincident with, and to some extent caused by all this activity there was a surge of interest in the Lewis and Clark expedition, both in the media and among the general public. Books, documentary films, newspaper and magazine articles across the country all shed fresh light on the Corps and its accomplishments. Once more, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark were hailed as the engineers of a major, perhaps THE major American epic. The Journals of Lewis and Clark, long aborning and finally published in full only in 1904, now attracted new attention and readership. The expedition was truly a remarkable historical episode, and the Journals remain a crucial document in American historiography, certainly the most important in the history of the American West.
Both the journey and its leaders narrative, The Journals of Lewis and Clark, justify the enormous amount of attention from writers and historians over the intervening two centuries. In all that time, though,
a significant gap existed, which has never been adequately filled. The voice of the Indians themselves has not often been heard. The Indian role in the entire venture, from Jefferson's original instructions to Lewis and Clark to the incalculable importance of native peoples to the success of the journey to historical developments in the decades following, has been fully described and interpreted, but almost exclusively from a white point of view. This book attempts to enrich and broaden the accepted approaches to the telling of a great American story.
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