This man is the Osage leader who gave Lewis and Clark permission to ascend the Missouri but he refused to deal with them.  So Pierre Chouteau took him to Washington, D.C. where he struck the deal with Thomas Jefferson.

 

1804
Le Soldat du Chien
(Dog Soldier)
Chief of the Little Osage
(The Branch Which Controlled the Lower Missouri River)

Dog Soldier

 



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