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Article: Lewis & Clark re-enactors face anger and protests in South Dakota from American Indians
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- September 21, 2004
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AP Worldstream
09-21-2004
Dateline: ST. LOUIS
A group re-enacting the historic trek of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark across America in the early 1800s 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.
An American Indian delegation greeted the Discovery Expedition of St. Charles over the weekend with protest signs, including one suggesting the original 1804-1806 expedition of Lewis and Clark led to genocide of their people and destruction of their culture. The re-enactors were asked to go back home.
"I went as a peaceful emissary and asked in a kind way if they would leave," said Alex White ...