Sheheke
Portrait: Charles de Saint-Memin, 1806-07, Public Domain
Related Locations
Note: the longest gap between tagged appearances is about 22 months (Oct 29, 1804 → Aug 16, 1806). Sheheke may have been present in the corps during that span but is not named in the journals.
Journal Entries (22)
Cross-Narrator Analyses
AI-assisted scholarly analyses that cite or discuss Sheheke — showing 11 of the most recent matches.
First Whiskey Since July 1805: An Encounter with Chouteau’s Trading Boat
On a Missouri River sandbar, the Corps meets a St. Louis trading vessel bound for the Yanktons. Three narrators record the same…
Three Frenchmen, a Medal Refused, and the Cheyennes at the Arikara Villages
On August 21, 1806, the returning Corps reached the Arikara villages and met Cheyenne traders. Gass, Ordway, and Clark each record the…
A Grape Vine to the Sky: Three Versions of an August Day on the Missouri
On 18 August 1806, Patrick Gass, John Ordway, and William Clark recorded the same descent of the Missouri in radically different registers…
Two Departures at the Mandan Villages: Colter Turns Back, Sheheke Heads East
On the same August afternoon in 1806, Sergeants Gass and Ordway record the expedition's most consequential partings — John Colter's choice to…
George Catlin in the Lewis & Clark Journal Record
George Catlin, the famed painter of Native American life, does not appear in the Lewis and Clark journals — but his later…
Pirogues Finished, a Sick Child, and Whispers of War
On a cold, cloudy March day at Fort Mandan, Ordway records the completion of the pirogues while Clark attends a sick Hidatsa…
A Cold Hunt Down River: Three Accounts of Clark’s Buffalo Search
On a snowy December day at Fort Mandan, Captain Clark led fourteen men downriver hunting buffalo. Three narrators—Clark himself, Sergeant Gass, and…
The Big White’s Summons: Three Accounts of a Mandan Buffalo Chase
On a bitter December morning at Fort Mandan, the Mandan chief Big White rode in to announce a buffalo herd nearby. Gass,…
Ice on the Missouri: Three Voices at the Threshold of Winter
On a cloudy November day at the future site of Fort Mandan, three expedition journalists record the same hours through markedly different…
Big White’s Gift and the Memory of a Vanished Nation
On a freezing November day at Fort Mandan, three expedition journalists record the same scene with strikingly different priorities — a chief's…
The Mandan Nation: Heart of the Upper Missouri
From October 1804 through April 1805, the Mandan villages on the upper Missouri became the expedition's home, classroom, and trading partner —…
From Heacock's Writings
1 mirrored articles by Robert Heacock that mention Sheheke.
