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U.S. History Describe the relations between the explorers and the Native Americans they met along the way. Were relations generally cordial or hostile, and were there significant differences in this regard among the different tribes? On February 28 1803, President Thomas Jefferson was granted a twenty five hundred dollar commission to embark on a revolutionary journey to the west. This un-chartered territory was to be explored by Meriwether Lewis and his friend William Clark. Due to …

…to our treatment of the Indians and our lack of concern for the culture and way of life, Lewis and Clark are tremendously fortunate that they were so well received by many of the tribes. For those who didn't receive them well we can only sympathize with their opposition to alien forces claiming stake on their land. Ironically this attitude of pushing the Native Americans aside became common practice in the United States for generations.