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Historical Event
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August 31, 1804
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Lewis and Clark meet the Dakota tribe and learn that they eat meat from following the Buffalow, and some ground potatoes.

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Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806
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They furnish Beaver, Martin, Wolfs, Pichou, Bear & Deer Skins, and have about 40 Traders among them. The Dar co tar (Dakota) or Suouez rove & follow the Buffalow raise no corn or any thing else the woods & praries affording a sufficiency, they eat Meat, and Substitute the Ground potato which grow in the Plains for bread.
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