Just like Lewis and Clark, some history buffs retracing the explorers' expedition have encountered hostile American Indians.
It happened in South Dakota, where a group of about 25 Indians told the expedition members last week to turn their boats around and go home. The man who portrays Captain Meriwether Lewis says the Indians used threatening language.
The Indians say the re-enactors shouldn't be celebrating a journey that marked the beginning of the end for their culture.
The director of the South Dakota Historical Society says the encounter occurred close to where the original expedition nearly had a fight with the Teton Sioux in the fall of 1804.
The 33 re-enactors say they won't change their plans, and the Indians say they'll continue peaceful protests.
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A: Bureau of Indian Affairs officer Elmer Four Dance, center, talks with a group of Lewis and Clark re-enactors Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2004 near Fort Thompson, S.D. An American Indian protest group has threatened the re-enactors and told them to turn back.
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