Craig Fehrman

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

So you sort of need like that basic primer.

So when I would talk to people today, it would be less like, what did your grandparents do?

And it would be more like, how do your people see the world?

What does land mean to your people?

Did you have an understanding of sort of geographical rights and those kinds of things?

So I think for me, at least as a writer, because I am not Klatsop, because I am not Lakota, it was very valuable for me to talk to those people who were generous with their time and said like, these are our values.

And you know,

those values have of course shaped, like there's no question.

I can think of examples from my interviews where people, they would say something to me and I'd be like, that feels like that's, that's that kind of modern life is impinging on, on the tradition as much as it is the tradition itself.

That, I mean, that, that happens with us and how we tell American stories too.

But I do think that, that for me, at least as an outsider, those interviews really helped me sort of feel like I could write from those people's points of view.

And it was just important in the book, like

We have great biographies of Lewis or Coulter or people like that, but I didn't want the sections on Koboe or Black Buffalo or Sacagawea to just be like, this is what Lewis and Clark did.

I wanted you to feel like you were in the canoe with them because I wanted the storytelling to be equal.

I wanted you to know what Lewis cared about, but I wanted you to know what Black Buffalo cared about too.

And the reason we can know that is often not these oral traditions, but the journals.

Lewis and Clark wrote down what Black Buffalo wanted

It's just my job as a historian to be like, that deserves a scene.

That deserves some description.

Black Buffalo is not a supporting character.

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