Discuss Native American life west of the Mississippi River in the 18th/early 19th centuries. What was happening west of the Mississippi in the decades before American contact? What sorts of goods, items, etc., were circulating amongst Indians in the west? What role did the Europeans and the United States play in this region, particularly through the Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis and Clark Expedition?

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Discuss Native American life west of the Mississippi River in the 18th/early 19th centuries. What was happening west of the Mississippi in the decades before American contact? What sorts of goods, items, etc., were circulating amongst Indians in the west? What role did the Europeans and the United States play in this region, particularly through the Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis and Clark Expedition?