Consider Indian Viewpoint During Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Observances

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This year's bicentennial observance of the Lewis and Clark expedition is already prompting some predictable embellishing of that journey and lapses of memory as it relates to American Indians.

The Corps of Discovery's journey 200 years ago was spurred in part because President Thomas Jefferson was curious to see what the nation had wrought and bought with the Louisiana Purchase, which more than doubled the size of the country but still pulled up short of coast-to-coast "Manifest Destiny."

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Consider Indian Viewpoint During Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Observances

Actually, even before the huge land transaction with France, Jefferson was advocating an expedition that would search out a northwest passage -- a seri...

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