Descendants make amends to Chinook for Lewis and Clark canoe theft

Friday, September 23, 2011 | 8:11 a.m. CDT; updated 9:36 a.m. CDT, Friday, September 23, 2011

LONG BEACH, Wash. — After completing their journey west and spending a wet and wretched winter at the mouth of the Columbia River in 1806, William Clark and Meriwether Lewis prepared to head home. There was just one problem: They were short a canoe.

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