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Native American Indian Attack, 1833
On August 28, 1833 a group of Assiniboine and Cree Indians attacked a Blackfoot encampment at Fort McKenzie. Kenneth McKenzie (died 26 April 1861) was nicknamed the King of the Missouri, for as a fur trader for American Fur Company in the upper Missouri River valley, he controlled a territory larger than most European nations. In 1831, McKenzie succeeded in beginning trade with the native Peigan Blackfeet, eventually building Fort McKenzie in their territory as another trading post. Voyage dans l'intérieur de l'Amérique du Nord, exécuté pendant les années 1832-34. Karl Bodmer (February 11, 1809 - October 30, 1893) was a Swiss printmaker, lithographer, painter, illustrator and hunter. He accompanied the German explorer Prince Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied on his Missouri River expedition. Bodmer was hired as an artist to record images of cities, rivers, towns and peoples they saw along the way, including the many tribes of Native Americans along the Missouri River and in that region.
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