Yanktonai Sioux

The expedition met with the Yankton Sioux in late August 1804. The tribe was short of firearms and trade goods. They hoped that contact with the U.S. would provide better trading than they had experienced under the French and British. More ceremony and ritual than the Corps had experienced with any other tribe preceded the council meeting. Lewis and Clark described the experience in great detail.

In better times, the Yankton had ventured into modern-day Montana to hunt buffalo. Lewis and Clark couldn't provide any immediate help to the tribe, but both parties agreed that a delegation should be sent to Washington to meet with the government.

Today

Many Yanktonai, Sisseton/Wahpeton and Teton Hunkpapa Sioux now live on the Fort Peck Reservation.

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