Craig Fehrman

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The MeatEater Podcast · Ep. 883: A New History of Lewis and Clark · 1 Jun 2026 podcast

I, no, no, no, no.

I'm a Buffalo guy.

Randall kind of sits on the fence about it.

I mean, this is not a book about 2026.

It's a book about 1804.

So I really tried, you know.

And the Americans called the Lakota the Sioux.

So when I'm writing from the American point of view, I use the Sioux.

When I'm writing from the Lakota point of view, I use the word Lakota.

Like,

It's important to me to give each person's perspective as they saw it and not to let our modern concerns kind of worm their way in there.

But anyway, so like the Shoshone would have to go out and get buffalo slash bison, try to keep both of you happy, each time in the fall.

And so in 1800, when Sacagawea was like 13 or 14, her people go out there.

And so they set up camp at Three Forks and the men are off hunting buffalo and the women and the kids are sort of, you know, back at the camp.

And so then one day, some armed raiders with rifles, which the Shoshone do not have at this point, from the Hadatsa Nation, show up.

And, you know, they're coming on horseback.

So the Shoshone scatter.

Most of them get on their horses, which they are famous for their wonderful horses, and escape.

But Sacagawea, for whatever reason, can't get to a horse.

So she starts running up the Jefferson River.

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