These entries provide ethnohistorical details on the most significant "pre-settled peoples" that interacted with the Corps of Discovery or were at least discussed in the Lewis and Clark Journals as the Expedition passed near their territories. 

The placement of the entries generally conforms to the chronological and geographical progression of the Expedition as it traveled from and back to St. Louis.  The "names of the nations" in parentheses are alternative native language designations sometimes preferred by the respective Indian groups today.  In most instances, they mean "The People."  Click on the following names to learn more.

FROM ST. LOUIS TO THE PACIFIC