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	Lewis and Clark . Inside the Corps . The Corps . Pierre Cruzatte \| PBS
		Private Pierre Cruzatte was of French and Omaha Indian extraction.
		In early June 1805, Cruzatte was one of six men selected to accompany Lewis on an exploration of the north fork of the Missouri River.
		Cruzatte’s translations, along with donations of useful gifts, were key in helping the Americans recover the pirogue and gain peaceful entry to the upper Missouri.
	www.pbs.org /lewisandclark/inside/pcruz.html (629 words)

	pierre cruzatte (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Pierre Cruzatte was one of the French explorers on the expedition.
		Pierre was near-sighted hunter and was a musician.
		On time on the expedition Charbonneau and Pierre were on a boat and Charbonneau dropped the tiller and cried to God for mercy.
	www.angelfire.com /mi/patter/pierrecruzatte.html (109 words)

	Lewi & Clark: An Epic Journey
		Pierre Cruzatte and his fiddle playing delighted captains Lewis and Clark and the many Indians they camped with.
		Cruzatte later admitted he was at fault, thinking Lewis dressed in brown leather, was an elk in the thick brush.
		Cruzatte is said to have returned to the Rockies in 1807 on another expedition.
	lewisclark.cet.edu /student/corps/cruzatte2.html (603 words)

	Pierre Cruzatte - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Private Pierre Cruzatte was a member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
		Cruzatte had only one good eye and was nearsighted.
		He accidentally shot Meriwether Lewis in the thigh when they were hunting elk on 8/11/1806 near the confluence of the Yellowstone and Missouri rivers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pierre_Cruzatte (209 words)

	Omaha Tribal Historical Research Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Cruzatte would play and the men would dance, often with the accompaniment of a “Tambereen and a Sounden Horn” (tin, with a brass reed).
		Cruzatte worked as bowman on the keelboat because of his ability to spot the slack water eddies that would help move the boat upstream.
		Pierre Cruzatte and François LaBiche: An Omaha Point of View also describes at length, the broader circumstances in what may have actually occurred with the expedition during its encounter with the Teton Sioux in September, 1804, an account that has heretofore not been given its proper Native perspective in American history.
	www.jackalopearts.org /othrptalkingleaf.html (2582 words)

	Grade 5: Building America In Song
		Pierre Cruzatte (dates unknown) He was one-eyed and nearsighted, and half Omaha-half French.
		Most important, Pierre Cruzatte was a master boatman whose fiddle playing enlivened the party’s camps throughout the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
		As Pierre Cruzatte, who sailed on the Lewis and Clark Expedition, was a seasoned fiddler, he may well have been familiar with this tune.
	www.sbgmusic.com /html/teacher/gr5/bais/historical.html (1308 words)

	L³ - The Lewis And Clark Rediscovery Project
		Pierre "Peter" Cruzatte was quite a beloved and respected member of the Corps.
		So respected were his skills as a boatman that when the expedition encountered the split of the Missouri before the Great Falls, all the men except the captains sided with Cruzatte when Cruzatte claimed the north branch to be the Missouri.
		Cruzatte came to the rescue with a simple solution—he threatened to shoot Charbonneau instantly if he did not take up the tiller.
	www.l3-lewisandclark.com /ShowOneObject.asp?SiteID=32&ObjectID=116 (961 words)

	SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Pierre Cruzatte
		Pierre Cruzatte, the one-eyed son of a French father and Indian mother was the main musician along the trail.
		Pierre Cruzatte, believed the northern course (Marias) was the Missouri.
		Pierre Cruzatte evidently mistook Lewis for an elk.
	history.surfwax.com /files/Pierre_Cruzatte_America.html (319 words)

	KSMU 91.1 FM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Cruzatte's story will be told Friday night at the Springfield Conservation Nature Center when Mo. Department of Conservation Education Consultant Mike Fraser, in a living history portrayal, becomes Pierre Cruzatte.
		Cruzatte's after hours job though, was in part, to entertain the travelers with his fiddle playing.
		According to Mike Fraser, a fiddle player himself, Cruzatte was "blind in one eye and couldn't see very well in the other, and it's ironic that he was chosen to drive the keel boat".
	ksmuonline.missouristate.edu /news.php?text=898 (280 words)

	Metis on the Expedition
		Pierre Cruzatte was of French and Omaha Indian heritage.
		Cruzatte was also the entertainer of the Corps as a violinist.
		George Drouillard, Pierre Cruzatte, and Francois LaBiche were multilingual and skilled in hunting, navigating, and trading respectively.
	www.artsci.wustl.edu /~landc/2002/projects/projects2001/metis/lewisandclark.html (1743 words)

	Steel Guitars and Dobros: December 2004
		Pierre Cruzatte, a member of the permanent party of the Lewis and Clark expedition, was an expert riverman recruited for his navigational skills and his command of the French and Omaha languages.
		Cruzatte returned with word from the prisoners that the expedition was "to be Stoped" by the Teton Sioux, according to Clark's journal entry.
		Cruzatte's music served not only as recreation for the members of the expedition but also as a critical diplomatic tool: he played--and the men danced and sang--for many of the Indian nations which the expedition met along the way.
	daviddeanwhite.blogspot.com /2004_12_01_daviddeanwhite_archive.html (11322 words)

	Cruzatte's Fiddlin'
		ery little is known of Pierre Cruzatte, who enlisted at St. Charles, Missouri, on May 16, 1804 as a boatman, or pilot.
		The son of a French father and an Omaha Indian mother, he had worked on the Lower Missouri River as a trader for the house of Chouteau in St. Louis, and was also fluent in sign-language, the lingua franca of the Western frontier.
		All of the Corps were duly appreciative of Cruzatte's talent as a fiddle player, with which he embellished their rare hours of leisure as well as their diplomatic relations with many Indian tribes.
	www.lewis-clark.org /MUSIC/mu_cruzatte.htm (942 words)

	Pierre Cruzatte (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Pierre Cruzatte is a Frenchman with a Native American mother.
		Because Pierre Cruzatte had only the use of one eye, he accidently shot Captain Lewis on the behind, mistaking him for an elk.
		Pierre Cruzatte is best known for the accident that happened.
	blackstock.huensd.k12.ca.us /web01_02/assembly02/pierre/pierre_cruzatte.htm (232 words)

	Dirty Linen #106 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		For an hour at a time, Slosberg "becomes" Pierre Cruzatte, the French-Indian navigator for Lewis and Clark on their famous expedition across the newly acquired Louisiana Territory.
		And his one-man show, "Pierre Cruzatte: A Musical Journey Along the Lewis and Clark Trail," is not your usual school assembly.
		A guy like Cruzatte wouldn't have had a chin rest on his fiddle.
	www.dirtynelson.com /linen/106/slosbergexc.html (542 words)

	Augustana College: Pierre Cruzatte and the Music of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		The featured entertainment is Pierre Cruzatte and the Music of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
		He will portray one of the most famous members of the Company, Pierre Cruzatte, the French-and-Indian river man who served as bowman in the keelboat and who often entertained the explorers with his exuberant fiddle playing.
		Besides his musicianship and his ability to navigate the Missouri, Cruzatte could speak Omaha, was skilled in Indian sign language, and was a negotiator of accomplishment.
	www.augie.edu /news/pressrel/general/2004/may/gen2_28.html (223 words)

	Lewis and Clark Trail Expedition, Chinook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Pierre Cruzatte was the Lewis and Clark Expedition's main navigator, and thus had a critical function on the journey.
		Had Cruzatte not forced Charbonneau to regain control, many people could have died, and the expedition would have lost essential supplies.
		Currently in the planning stages is celebration of the 200th anniversary of the Lewis and Clark Expedition to the west in 1804-06.
	www.willapabay.org /~anne/chinook.htm (783 words)

	Bakercityherald.com
		Pierre Cruzatte puts listeners in the boat with Lewis and Clark as he fiddles through stories about the historic expedition.
		With that claim, Daniel Slosberg — as Pierre Cruzatte, the colorful fiddle player and navigator for the Lewis and Clark expedition — launches into a delightful 45-minute program of music and monologue that will soon make a return visit to the National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center.
		The accident wasn’t all Cruzatte’s fault, of course, although research indicated he was blind in one eye and myopic in the other.
	www.bakercityherald.com /news/story.cfm?story_no=819 (773 words)

	AVC - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Upon learning that Lewis and Clark had a fiddle player and boatman along their journey, Slosberg embarked upon his own "voyage of discovery," learning everything he could about Pierre Cruzatte and the music, song and dance of the Lewis and Clark expedition.
		Slosberg portrays the true-life adventures of Pierre Cruzatte, a French Canadian Indian boatman and fiddler who played an important role in the expedition.
		Pierre Cruzatte's multiple identities embody the spirit of the Francophone festival who celebrates fusion of French cultures with other cultures to celebrate diversity.
	www.avc.edu /faculty/arts/maponte/francophone/performers_slosberg.htm (181 words)

	Picture Gallery: Camp River Dubois
		A modern day interpreter is shown here portraying Pierre Cruzatte, an engage who was quite proficient with the fiddle (and a number of other musical instruments).
		Cruzatte frequently entertained the men of the expedition at the end of a grueling day of training.
		Another view of the modern day interpreter portraying Pierre Cruzatte playing the fiddle within the walls of Camp River Dubois.
	www.army.mil /CMH-pg/LC/Explore/Camp_River_Dubois/gallery.htm (267 words)

	Lewis & Clark: Life on the Trail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		The engages are separate from the other French-speaking members of the expedition: Pierre Cruzatte, Francois Labiche, Baptiste Lepage, Charles Caugee, Joseph Collin and La Liberte.
		Cruzatte was notable for his fiddle playing, and Lepage was likely the first non-Indian man to walk North Dakota's Little Missouri River.
		* Pierre Roy's mother-in-law was Therese Valley, an Arikara, married to the French trader Jean Valle.
	www.bismarcktribune.com /lewisclark/2001/engages.html (472 words)

	Pierre Cruzatte -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Pierre Cruzatte -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		Pvt Pierre Cruzatte was a member of the (An expedition sent by Thomas Jefferson to explore the northwestern territories of the United States; led by Merriwether Lewis and William Clark; traveled from St. Louis to the mouth of the Columbia River from 1803 to 1806) Lewis and Clark expedition.
		He accidentally shot Lewis in the thigh when they were hunting, causing bleeding and pain.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pi/pierre_cruzatte.htm (96 words)

	Pierre Cruzatte: A Musical Journey Along the Lewis & Clark Trail, Native Ground Music, Daniel Slosberg
		Pierre Cruzatte: A Musical Journey Along the Lewis and Clark Trail, Native Ground Music, Daniel Slosberg
		As you journey back 200 years, you’ll hear melodies, dance tunes and work songs of the era played on period instruments by renowned fiddler Daniel Slosberg, your guide for this musical adventure through the old frontier.
		With these rich, authentic performances, you’ll feel like you’ve made camp with Pierre Cruzatte himself, the main boatman and fiddle with the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
	allentech.net /techstore/item_B0000UUSQQ.html (175 words)

	Lewis and Clark Then and Now: Music and the Expedition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Develop a short movie which includes information on the life and times of Pierre Cruzatte, before the expedition, during the expedition, and after the expedition.
		Have students find images of locations that Cruzatte traveled through on the expedition and after to use in their video.
		Students could also write a short story detailing an event in Cruzatte's life or an event on the expedition that Cruzatte was part of.
	ali.apple.com /ali_sites/ali/exhibits/1001329/Learning_Activities.html (797 words)

	Lewis and Clark Gnet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Pierre Cruzatte's value to the Corps of Discovery si discussed on this web page.
		In addition to the extensive narrative on Cruzatte, there are three videos of Daniel Slosberg - in character, discussing Cruzatte's legacy.
		This is the homepage of Daniel Slosberg, famed re-enactor of Pierre Cruzatte.
	www.lewisandclarkgnet.org /pages.php?page_title=reenactors&search_for=re_enacters (2817 words)

	from the center - music - Pierre Cruzatte (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Lewis and Clark’s main boatman and most esteemed musician comes to life in Pierre Cruzatte: A Musical Journey Along the Lewis and Clark Trail.
		Playing fiddle, jaw harp, bones, spoons, and other instruments of the expedition, musician and storyteller Daniel Slosberg takes audiences on an unforgettable musical voyage — with stops along the way for humorous and moving stories about the journey and Cruzatte’s critical contributions to it.
		Students will learn the importance of music, song, and dance to the expedition, both as entertainment for the explorers and as a diplomatic tool with the almost fifty Indian nations who they met along the trail.
	www.ocpac.org /fromthecenter/music/pierre.html (132 words)

	Pierre Cruzatte Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
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	Pierre Cruzatte (6-8)
		Musician and storyteller Daniel Slosberg embarked upon a voyage of discovery in 1997 when he learned, through the Ken Burns PBS documentary, that Lewis and Clark's main boatman was a fiddler--Pierre Cruzatte.
		Students will take a musical journey along the Lewis and Clark Trail guided by the expedition's main boatman and fiddler, Pierre Cruzatte.
		Cruzatte describes the journey and his critical contributions to it, telling humorous and moving stories and playing tunes and songs on the fiddle, jaw harp, bones, spoons, and other instruments of the expedition.
	www.laartsed.org /program.aspx?pid=278 (201 words)

	Reflections, SOHO San Diego (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Upon learning that Lewis and Clark had a fiddle player along on their journey, Slosberg embarked upon his own "voyage of discovery," learning everything he could about Pierre Cruzatte and the music, song and dance of the Lewis and Clark expedition.
		He was particularly struck at how important it was to the expedition, both as entertainment for the explorers and as a diplomatic tool with the almost fifty Indian nations the expedition met along the trail.
		Performances will be in The Theatre at the Whaley House on Friday, May 31st at 7:30pm, Saturday, June 1st at 5:00pm and 7:30pm, and Sunday, June 2nd at 5:00pm.
	www.sohosandiego.org /reflections/2002april/slosberg.htm (321 words)

	Assignment 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Private Cruzatte was of French and Omaha Indian decedent and was fluent with the Omaha language as well as sign language.
		Again, although these men are not well known among the general public, York more so than Cruzatte, their help and cooperation with Lewis and Clark and the rest of the crew is key to their success.
		Without each of the lesser men of the group, the expedition would not have succeeded as well as it did because it is due to the group’s diversity and specialty’s that the expedition came back with such favorable attribute.
	www.louisville.edu /~srkemp02/assignment2.html (1054 words)

	Lewis & Clark
		After the expedition's return, Collins was killed in a fight with the Arikara in 1823.
		Private Pierre Cruzatte was half French and half Omaha and enlisted with Lewis and Clark in 1804.
		He spoke the Omaha language and was skilled in sign talk, so he was valuable to the captions at the Indian councils and encounters with the tribes on the lower Missouri.
	www.boonecountyheritage.org /content/History/CorpsMembers.asp (1497 words)

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