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henry_flower) wrote2015-04-11 03:02 pm
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How Indians sometimes acted like English Lords, hehe: 'Lewis realized how dangerous it was for the
How Indians sometimes acted like English Lords, hehe:
'Lewis realized how dangerous it was for the Americans to have the Hidatsas believing such things [that the Americans had joined with the Sioux and intended to make war on the Hidatsas], so he reacted immediately.
He set out on horseback for the Hidatsa villages, accompanied by Jessaume and Charbonneau as translators, to make the rounds of the principal men and assure them of the falsity of the Mandan stories.
But he was rebuffed.
Later that day, he saw MacKenzie. “He observed to me,” MacKenzie wrote, “that he was not very graciously received. ‘I sent ahead,’ said he, ‘to inform Horned Weasel [the Hidatsa chief] that I intended to take up my quarters at his lodge, he returned for an answer that “he was not at home.” This conduct surprised me, it being common only among your English Lords, not to be “at home” when they did not wish to see strangers, but as I had felt no inclination of entering any house after being told the landlord would not be “at home”, I looked out for another lodging, which I readily found.’ ”'
'Lewis realized how dangerous it was for the Americans to have the Hidatsas believing such things [that the Americans had joined with the Sioux and intended to make war on the Hidatsas], so he reacted immediately.
He set out on horseback for the Hidatsa villages, accompanied by Jessaume and Charbonneau as translators, to make the rounds of the principal men and assure them of the falsity of the Mandan stories.
But he was rebuffed.
Later that day, he saw MacKenzie. “He observed to me,” MacKenzie wrote, “that he was not very graciously received. ‘I sent ahead,’ said he, ‘to inform Horned Weasel [the Hidatsa chief] that I intended to take up my quarters at his lodge, he returned for an answer that “he was not at home.” This conduct surprised me, it being common only among your English Lords, not to be “at home” when they did not wish to see strangers, but as I had felt no inclination of entering any house after being told the landlord would not be “at home”, I looked out for another lodging, which I readily found.’ ”'
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