{"id":1806065,"date":"2022-02-16T14:57:34","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T19:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1806065"},"modified":"2022-02-18T09:24:15","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T14:24:15","slug":"william-clark-implicated-in-land-grab-by-map-re-attributed-to-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/02\/william-clark-implicated-in-land-grab-by-map-re-attributed-to-him\/","title":{"rendered":"William Clark Implicated in Land Grab by Map Re-Attributed to Him"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"William<\/a>A new historical study reattributes a rough sketch of treaty lines in what is now Missouri to William Clark (of \u201cLewis and\u201d fame), implicating the legendary explorer in the dispossession of some 10.5 million acres of land assigned by treaty to indigenous peoples. The article by Cambridge historian Robert Lee<\/a>, who studies Indigenous dispossession in the 19th century and discovered the map misfiled in another fonds, appears in the latest issue of William and Mary Quarterly<\/em><\/a>. The DOI<\/a> doesn\u2019t appear to work yet, nor is the article available online at this point, but here\u2019s the abstract<\/a> and the press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new historical study reattributes a rough sketch of treaty lines in what is now Missouri to William Clark (of \u201cLewis and\u201d fame), implicating the legendary explorer in the dispossession of some 10.5 million acres… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[144,698,65,1562],"class_list":["post-1806065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-antique-maps","tag-1800s","tag-indigenous","tag-lewis-and-clark","tag-missouri","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1785524,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/05\/too-nes-map-for-lewis-and-clark\/","url_meta":{"origin":1806065,"position":0},"title":"Too N\u00e9’s Map for Lewis and Clark","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"1 May 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"A map drawn by an Indigenous guide for Lewis and Clark, recently discovered in the Biblioth\u00e8que Nationale de France, is the subject of an entire issue of the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation's journal, We Proceeded On. 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