We were also fortunate enough to engage in our service a Canadian Frenchmen, who had been with the Chayenne Indians on the Black mountains, and last summer descended thence by the Little Missouri.

The next morning Meriwether Lewis sent for Lewis' servants. A Tennessee coroner's jury in 1996 recommended exhumation.

They also collected scientific data and information on indigenous nations. President Thomas Jefferson appointed him Governor of Upper Louisiana in 1806.