NEWS - September 27, 2004
“Lewis & Clark re-enactors face Indian protests in South Dakota.” Billings Gazette, 21 September 2004.
A group re-enacting the Lewis and Clark expedition were confronted in South Dakota by American Indian leaders who questioned the legacy of the 200-year-old trip and its effects on native culture.
*also appeared in the Columbia Daily Tribune, 22 September 2004.
*also appeared in the Great Falls Tribune, 23 September 2004.
*also appeared in the Jefferson City News Tribune, 22 September 2004.
*also appeared in the Kansas City Star, 22 September 2004.
Monoson, Ted. “Senate vote on river management probable.” Billings Gazette, 22 September 2004.
Sen. Kit Bond, R-Mo., added a provision to the Department of Veterans Affairs fiscal year 2005 funding bill that would nullify an effort by Sen. Conrad Burns, R-Mont., and Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., to increase the amount of water held in Fort Peck and in two other upper Missouri River dams.
*Also appeared in the Columbia Daily Tribune, 22 September 2004.
*Also appeared in the Helena Independent Record, 22 September 2004.
*Also appeared in the Jamestown Sun, 22 September 2004.
*Also appeared in the Jefferson City, 22 September 2004.
http://www.bismarcktribune.com/articles/2004/09/22/news/topnews/top01.txt
Quaid, Libby. “River water measure reversed.” Bismark Tribune, 22 September 2004.
Efforts to conserve more Missouri River water in upstream reservoirs -- at the expense of downriver barge shipping -- suffered a setback Tuesday in a Senate committee.
“Tracers of historical expedition run into opposition from American Indians.” Billings Gazette, 24 September 2004.
A group of about 25 Indians told the expedition members to turn their boats around and go home last week as they made their way up the Missouri River near Chamberlain, where the rolling prairie opens to a grand vista on the lofty banks of the river.
*also appeared in the Helena Independent Record, 25 September 2004.
*also appeared in the Jamestown Sun, 25 September 2004.
*also appeared in the Omaha World Herald, 24 September 2004.
http://www.capjournal.com/main.asp?SectionID=2&SubSectionID=2&ArticleID=11425
Daniel, Dorinda. “Events honor Lakota nation.” Chamberlain Capital Journal, 27 September 2004.
Two hundred years earlier, on Sept. 24, 1804, Lakota Indians might have stood on the banks of the Bad River and watched as a keelboat, a red pirogue and a white pirogue came up the Missouri River carrying the approximately 40-member Lewis and Clark Expedition. The keelboat was anchored that night about 100 yards in front of the mouth of the Bad River