President Jefferson wants me to go to the Indians......

..Make them acquainted with . . . our wish to be neighborly, friendly, and useful to them, and to trade with them......

" TheIndians took our guns this morning and then one got stabbed fatally. then i burned the shield, the two bows, and the quiver of arrows."

Lewis was reading the letter from Thomas Jefferson, he wants him to investigate the west side.

some of tribes that Lewis and Clark saw were forced off a river with bad soil and the whites brought diseases thatkill 90% of the tribe members.

Lewis and Clark are talking to the one eyed chief about their mission. Sacagawea translatedthe message for them.

Lewis was giving a speech about Thomas Jeffersonand that they should obey him or he will be displeased and to live in peace with the white men

We hope that the Great Spirit will open your ears to our councils, and dispose your minds to their observance. Follow these councils and you will have nothing to fear, because the Great Spirit will smile upon your nation, and in future ages will make you outnumber the trees of the forest.