Craig Fehrman

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

So what those interviews with the oral history did, they gave me some details that I tried to very clearly show where those details came from.

But they also helped me just kind of take on perspectives and be able to understand the values.

And the other thing is academics have done a lot of research to vet oral sources.

Like in the Pacific Northwest, there have been oral traditions for a long time about these giant tsunamis that came hundreds of years ago before any white traders showed up.

Those have been recorded for more than a century, but it's only like in the last 30, 40 years that geologists have been able to prove there were giant tsunamis in this region that came in this time period and did this much damage.

So like the geologists have sort of proven that the oral traditions, at least in broad strokes, are correct.

So I tried to have an open mind to all these sources.

And like we were talking about with Wolf Kaff in the Blackfoot interview,

I would take the oral sources.

I would take the journals.

I would take the scholarship.

I would take my own understanding of human beings, kind of throw it in a blender and then offer the best interpretation I could.

But here's what I can do.

I can tell you what my great grandparents values were.

They were hardworking people.

Huh?

No, but you can tell family values and how those get passed on.

So the first thing I would say is when we're talking about family stuff, I'm not saying that I said, what did Kobo eat for breakfast on the day Lewis and Clark showed up, but you can still learn those values, which are not my values.

This is an impossible question for me to answer because I've read history about this time period too.

So anything I would tell you would be shaped by my understanding of what people live in Indiana.

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