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Lewis and Clark Pathways: Smallpox

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The path of the Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery led them to a winter along the Missouri River near the homes of agricultural Native American tribes, which would later suffer a devastating smallpox epidemic, and past the future sites of Fort Abraham Lincoln and Fort Union.

Smallpox had the most devasting effect on sedentary tribes that built permanent settlements, decimating the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara, rather than nomadic tribes like the Sioux.

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Producer

Bob Dambach (Producer); Dave Geck (Videographer)

Source

Lewis and Clark Pathways, Prairie Public Television (2002).

Grade Level

4 - 8

Subject Matter

Social Studies, Science

Standards

Science

Grade 07

SCI 7.7.2

Identify the factors (e.g., pollution, heredity, diet, virus, bacteria, parasite) that may result in disease

Grades 09-10

SCI 9-10.7.2

Identify factors that affect populations (e.g., food webs, carrying capacity, overpopulation, disease, food supply, algal blooms, resources, conservation practices)

Social Studies

Grade 04

SS 4.2.3

Identify similarities and differences between past events and current events in North Dakota (e.g., in the lives of people from different cultures past and present)

Grade 08

SS 8.2.11

Explain the significance of key events (e.g., settlement and homesteading, statehood, reservations) and people (e.g., Roughrider Recipients) in North Dakota and tribal history