Sheheke
Portrait: Charles de Saint-Memin, 1806-07, Public Domain
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Note: the longest gap between tagged appearances is about 22 months (Oct 29, 1804 → Aug 17, 1806). Sheheke may have been present in the corps during that span but is not named in the journals.
Art (2)
Journal Entries (22)
Cross-Narrator Analyses
Analyses that cite or discuss Sheheke — showing 11 of the most recent matches.
Two Departures at the Mandan Villages: Colter Turns Back, Sheheke Heads East
The entries of Patrick Gass and John Ordway for August 17, 1806, document the same sequence of events near the Mandan villages:…
A Cold Hunt Down River: Three Accounts of Clark’s Buffalo Search
The hunting expedition Captain William Clark led from Fort Mandan on December 14, 1804 produced three surviving accounts—one from Clark himself and…
A Grape Vine to the Sky: Three Versions of an August Day on the Missouri
The journal entries for 18 August 1806 offer one of the more striking examples of register disparity in the expedition's late phase.…
Big White’s Gift and the Memory of a Vanished Nation
The entries for November 12, 1804 capture the Lewis and Clark expedition in the early weeks of its Mandan winter, with the…
First Whiskey Since July 1805: An Encounter with Chouteau’s Trading Boat
The meeting between the homeward-bound Corps of Discovery and a Missouri River trading boat on 6 September 1806 produced a rare alignment…
Ice on the Missouri: Three Voices at the Threshold of Winter
The journal entries dated 15 November 1804 capture the Corps of Discovery in a transitional moment: hunters were scattered downriver, ice was…
Pirogues Finished, a Sick Child, and Whispers of War
The journal entries of 19 March 1805 capture Fort Mandan in its final phase of preparation, six weeks before the Corps of…
The Big White’s Summons: Three Accounts of a Mandan Buffalo Chase
The arrival of Sheheke (Big White), principal chief of the lower Mandan village, at the gates of Fort Mandan on the morning…
Three Frenchmen, a Medal Refused, and the Cheyennes at the Arikara Villages
The expedition's August 21, 1806 arrival at the Arikara villages produced three overlapping accounts that, read together, illuminate how the Corps' narrators…
George Catlin in the Lewis & Clark Journal Record
A Note on SourcesGeorge Catlin (1796–1872) is not mentioned in any entry of the Lewis and Clark journals. The dataset underlying this…
The Mandan Nation: Heart of the Upper Missouri
First Encounter on the Upper MissouriBy the time the Corps of Discovery reached the earth-lodge towns near present-day Washburn, North Dakota, in…
From the Heacock Memorial Archive
1 lewis-clark.org articles that mention Sheheke, preserved here for Robert Heacock’s photography. The articles were written by that site’s contributing authors.
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