The Search for Little Bow's Village, Cedar County Nebraska
Author(s): Laura Bender
Year: 2015
Summary
The Corps of Discovery Expedition traveled the stretch of the Missouri River that today divides Nebraska from South Dakota in August of 1804. From their vantage point on the river, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark both note an abandoned Omaha village at the mouth of what is now Bow Creek, Cedar county, Nebraska. The explorers' map identifies the village as having been founded by Omaha leader Little Bow after branching off of the main Omaha tribe. Since the 1940's archeogists have made attempts to relocated this village as described by Lewis and Clark without success. This poster describes a renewed effort to identify the site.
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The Search for Little Bow's Village, Cedar County Nebraska. Laura Bender. Presented at The 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, California. 2015 ( tDAR id: 397902)
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Keywords
General
Corps of Discovery
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Lewis and Clark
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Omaha
Geographic Keywords
North America - Midwest
Spatial Coverage
min long: -104.634; min lat: 36.739 ; max long: -80.64; max lat: 49.153 ;