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词条 Calumet Bluff
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  1. History

  2. Gallery

  3. See also

  4. External links

  5. References

  6. Further Information

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| image_caption = Calumet Bluff, viewed
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| location = Cedar County, Nebraska, U.S.
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}}Calumet Bluff is a hill about 180 feet high overlooking Lewis and Clark Lake and the Missouri River in Cedar County, Nebraska, U.S., where the Lewis and Clark Expedition held its first council with the Sioux Indians for two days in 1804. Today the Bluff forms the right or south abutment of the Gavins Point Dam.[1] The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers maintains the Lewis and Clark Visitor Center and the Gavins Point Project Administration Offices on Calumet Bluff overlooking the dam.[2][3]

History

The Lewis and Clark Expedition's Corps of Discovery camped below Calumet Bluff during the period of August 28 to September 1, 1804. In his diary, Clark noted the bluff was "Called White Bear Clift, one of those animals haveing been killed in a whole in it[sic]."[4] The bluff is often called "White Bear Cliff" in historical records, but is now more commonly called Calumet Bluffs. A "Calumet" refers to a peace pipe, [this is a misinterpretation, at that time it was a name given to a Golden Eagle; eagles nest on bluffs and their feathers where probably on the peace pipe].[5] To this day, the bluff matches Lewis and Clark's description of it as "composed of a yellowish red, and brownish clay as hard as chalk."

It was at Calumet Bluff that the Corps had their first encounter with the Yankton-Sioux Tribe on August 30, 1804, meeting with them for two days. Folklore claims that a male child was born into the Yankton tribe while Lewis and Clark were meeting with them on Calumet Bluff. When he heard this, Capt. Lewis had the child brought forward and wrapped him in an American flag. Lewis predicted that the boy would become a leader of his tribe and a friend of the white men. The child grew up to be the famous Yankton Chief Padaniapapi, or "Struck By The Ree."[6]

Today, Calumet Bluff is a Federally-protected area by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) as a part of the Lewis and Clark Lake - Gavins Point Dam Project and is located along the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail. The USACE maintains two scenic overlooks and the Calumet Bluff Trail - a 0.9 mile hiking trail along the bluffs overlooking the lake.

Gallery

See also

  • Missouri River
  • Lewis and Clark Expedition
  • Lewis and Clark Lake
  • Gavins Point Dam
  • Missouri National Recreational River

External links

  • Gavins Point Dam & Lewis & Clark Lake, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

References

1. ^{{cite web|title=Gavins Point Dam—Lewis & Clark Lake|url=http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/mwro/lewis-clark-lake/sec7.htm|publisher=National Park Service}}
2. ^{{cite web|title=Lewis and Clark Visitor Center|url=http://www.visitnebraska.com/component/myplanner/detail/attractions/2000435|website=VisitNebraska.com|publisher=Nebraska Tourism Commission|access-date=2014-10-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006125959/http://www.visitnebraska.com/component/myplanner/detail/attractions/2000435#|archive-date=2014-10-06|dead-url=yes|df=}}
3. ^{{cite web|title=Gavins Point Dam & Lewis & Clark Lake|url=http://www.nwo.usace.army.mil/Missions/DamandLakeProjects/MissouriRiverDams/GavinsPoint.aspx|publisher=U.S. Army Corps of Engineers}}
4. ^{{cite web|title=The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, September 1, 1804|url=http://lewisandclarkjournals.unl.edu/read/?_xmlsrc=1804-09-01.xml&_xslsrc=LCstyles.xsl|publisher=University of Nebraska, Lincoln}}
5. ^Lewis and Clark Journal, August 21, 1805 see reference to Calumet in their journal from Thomas O'Neill and I have been telling the Park Service this for about 15 years!
6. ^{{cite web|title=Calumet Bluff|url=http://mri.usd.edu/watertrail/culturalsites/calumetbluff.html|publisher=Missouri River Institute, University of South Dakota;}}

Further Information

  • "Calumet Bluff, Nebraska," National Park Service, Survey of Historic Sites and Buildings.
  • Photographs of Gavins Point Dam—Lewis & Clark Lake, National Park Service
  • Lewis and Clark Visitor Center at Calumet Bluff - Lewis and Clark Trail

7 : Historic sites in Nebraska|Protected areas of Cedar County, Nebraska|Landforms of Cedar County, Nebraska|Hills of Nebraska|Tourist attractions in Cedar County, Nebraska|Federal lands in Nebraska|Hiking trails in Nebraska

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