Newly uncovered map suggests U.S. explorer William Clark stole Indigenous land – CTV News
February 6, 2022
An archival discovery has revealed a rare map in Washington D.C. that shows American explorer William Clark was behind a massive land grab from Indigenous nations and broke the peace treaty with Great Britain to do it.
The map, which was painstakingly decoded, re-dated and examined by University of Cambridge historian Robert Lee in the U.K., exposes Clark’s role in a 19th-century land grab, which robbed Indigenous peoples of territory the size of Switzerland in what is now Missouri, and fuelled the expansion of slavery.
While doing research with some microfilm from the National Archives and Records Administration in Washington, D.C., Lee saw a map filed under the name “Captain Eli B. Clemson” that did not match the basic geography of the accepted version of events about the treaty of 1808 commonly known as the “Osage Treaty”.
