Lewis & Clark: A Clatsop Winter Story

Lewis & Clark: A Clatsop Winter Story DVD VIDEO DOCUMENTARY oral history tribes Type: Movie Platform: DVD Publisher: Camera One Released: 2005 Media: DVD Lewis & Clark: A Clatsop Winter StoryWe are the cedar people; the descendants of Coboway and Cusculah. We have lived here for thousands of years along the ocean and rivers of the northwest. We welcomed traders from the tall ships that arrived by sea... and explorers that came by land and water from the east, the Lewis and Clark expedition. We called them all cloth men. Our oral histories go back many hundreds of years and, even today, we tell stories of our first encounters with the cloth men. And stories of Captains Lewis and Clark, the Shoshone woman, and the winter they spent among us. They did not understand the Clatsop people or our ways, nor did we understand them. But they were the first cloth men to live among us... the first of many more to follow. Now, like our other oral histories, this has become one of our wi