National Park Service Lewis & Clark Resources

Several National Park Service Web pages at www.nps.gov/lecl/ give insight into the challenges faced in the Lewis and Clark journey.

• The Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail has the trail’s history and maps of the expedition.
• Fort Clatsop National Memorial offers daily descriptions of wintering at on the northwest coast in 1806.
• Nez Perce National Historic Park - 38 sites in 4 states about the Nimiipuu (Nez Perce), their interaction with explorers, fur traders, missionaries, soldiers, settlers, gold miners, farmers moving through or into the area.
• The Jefferson National Expansion Memorial - The Museum of Westward Expansion, at St. Louis Gateway Arch, has material on the Lewis & Clark expedition.
• The National Register of Historic Places has an on-line travel itinerary on the Lewis and Clark Expedition and provides information on 41 related historic places.
• Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site - Learn about Native American village life and culture with an earthlodge tour. See the Teaching with Historic Places lesson plan about Knife River.
• PBS: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery, coinciding with Ken Burns’ film, pbs.org provides biographies of corps members, Native American groups and members' journal entries.
• The National Lewis & Clark Bicentennial Council commemorates the expedition and the extensions of goodwill by native peoples. Learn stops along the trail and associated tribes, including a tribal directory of present-day contacts.
• The Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation promotes trail stewardship, public interest in the preservation of the the Lewis and Clark legacy.
• Nez Piece and Chinook Tribes - Tribal codes, government, history, customs and culture.
• Three Affiliated Tribes - www.mhanation.com has information about the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara.
• U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service: Native American Affairs has links to present-day policy and historic treaties of Pacific Region tribes.