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What is pre-contact?
Describing a period before meeting Europeans
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What is the Doctrine of Discovery?
The legalization of finders keepers, losers weepers
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What is Spain?
The first European colonial power in the Americas
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What is an anthropologist?
Lewis and Clark could be considered the first of this profession
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What is Montana?
This state makes up roughly 1/4 of the length of the expedition
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What is pre-Columbian?
The period of time before European settlement of the Americas
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What is a papal bull?
A legal decree made by a pope
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What is the Colombian Exchange?
The concept of taking New World goods and bringing them to the Old World and vice versa
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What is Superintendent of Indian Affairs?
Following the end of the expedition Clark was appointed to this position
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Who is Sacagawea?
This invaluable expedition member joined the team at the Mandan Villages in North Dakota
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What is the Lone Dog's winter count?
The most well known one of these, is a form of tribal historical record keeping
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What is Vacuum Domicilium?
Empty land...kind of
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What is syphilis?
Possibly the only disease originating in the New World
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What is the Marias River?
On the return trip through Montana Lewis and Clark split up. Lewis went north and followed this river to the northern most point of the expedition
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What is four?
The amount of languages it took to translate from English to Shoshone
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Who is Sweet Medicine?
A Cheyenne prophet
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What is plenary power?
Absolute authority, usually held by sovereign nations
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What is St. Augustine, Florida?
The oldest permanent European settlement in North America
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What is Pompey's Pillar?
The rock which Clark carved his name into
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What is Fort Clatsop?
The name of the camp built in Oregon Territory
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Who are the Hopi?
The Prophecy Rock of this tribe depicts the end of the current world
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Who is John Marshall?
He wrote the decisions for three major Supreme Court cases involving Native Americans in the early 1800s
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What is encomienda?
The Spanish instituted this system of unpaid/forced labor of Native Americans in their colonies
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What is a gunshot?
Lewis was only 35 when he passed away due to this type of wound
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What is Feather's Map?
The map used by Lewis and Clark to navigate the Louisiana Territory that was drawn by a Blackfoot chief
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