Indians of North America -- Great Plains Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Photographs
Date:
Feb 1834
Scope and Contents:
Distant view of the fort, and earthlodge village near it on the bluffs. From their appearance, Indians in foreground, and crossing river on the ice, could be either Mandan or Hidatsa. (--JCE)
Biographical / Historical:
Fort Clark was the American Fur Company trading post for both the Mandan and the Hidatsa. (--JCE)
Indians of North America -- Great Plains Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Photographs
Date:
Apr 29 1834
Biographical / Historical:
Original pencil sketch by Carl Bodmer, April 29, 1834.
Fort Pierre, at the mouth of the Teton River, was the American Fur Company's principal trading post among the Teton Dakota (Western Sioux). The Indian tipis depicted near this post are undoubtedly Sioux. (--JCE)
MS 7135 Fielding Lucas Jr. Scrapbook, including illustrations and original watercolor and wash sketches of James Otto Lewis, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Chardon's journal at Fort Clark, 1834-1839 / edited with historical introduction and notes by Annie Heloise Abel ; introduction to the Bison Books edition by William R. Swagerty