On this day in Lewis & Clark history...
Only two Indians visit Fort Mandan due to the previous day's adoption ceremony—a practice where enemies are made temporary relatives so that they can trade. The hunters do not return, so the men must eat some of their salted pork.
From the journals...
14th of November Wednesday 1804
only two Indians visit us to day Owing to a Dance at the Village last night in Concluding a Serimoney of adoption, and interchange of property, between the Ossiniboins, and the nations of this neighbourhood—
Ptihn-Tak-Ochatä, Dance of the Mandan Women
