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Lewis and Clark hold their first council with Indians. They
meet with a group of Oto and Missouri chiefs near They hand out peace medals and other gifts, and Lewis delivers a speech. -
Lewis and Clark sited a space across the Missouri River
from the Indian villages and begin construction of
Fort Mandan. -
Toussaint Charbonneau is a French-Canadian trapper
living with the Hidatsas and is hired to be an interpreter
for the Expedition. -
Sacagawea, Charbonneau’s Indian wife, gives birth to
a son, Jean Baptiste, at Fort Mandan. The child is later
nicknamed Pompy, or Pomp by Clark. -
The Expedition arrives in St. Louis. Lewis writes to
Thomas Jefferson that the corps has “penetrated the
Continent of North America to the Pacific Ocean.”
