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Explorers

William Clark & Meriwether Lewis 

(Corps of Discovery)

• They wanted to find the Northwest Passage

• Establish official relations with Native Americans

• Learn about the territory for future settlement

• Tried to establish friendly relations & assert American authority

• Dependent on Native Americans for supplies, directions, & communication

  • Sacagewa/Sacajawea

Mountain Men

Joe Meek

• To get rich from collecting beaver and other animal furs/pelts/etc.

• Traded with Native Americans to acquire animal furs

• Many killed by Native Americans

• Some married Native Americans

Missionaries

Marcus & Narcissa Whitman

• Spread Christianity & convert Native Americans

• Second Great Awakening

• Awkward due to Culture Clash

  • Different cultures misunderstand each other in ways that create awkwardness, tension, and friction

Latter Day Saints

Brigham Young

• Escape religious persecution and find somewhere safe to practice their religion

• Little interaction because LDS were seeking solitude

Homesteaders

Sager Family

• Henry & Naomi

• 7 Children (Catherine) aged 14yrs to 5 months

• Looking for cheap & fertile on which to settle and farm

  • ”Oregon Fever”

  • Oregon Trail

Violence & conflict common

• Some NA blamed Americans from the diseases that accompanied them

• Competition for land

  • Whitman

Prospectors

William Swain

• Get rich from gold prospecting

  • “Gold Fever”

  • California Gold Rush

Prospectors would:

• Scapegoat/blame NA for all their problems & frustrations

• hunt down, attack, kill NA

  • turn in scalps or heads for bounty

  • Before 1849,~150,000 NA

  • in CA

  • by 1870, <30,000

• Effectively enslave NA

• Rape NA

Exodusters

Benjamin “Pap” Singleton

• Escape racial oppression in the south

• Opportunity for land to own & farm

• Little to no contact because Native Americans had already been “removed” from Kansas