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"[During Lewis and Clark's voyage they passed] a three-mile-long island, near the mouth of the Grand River, home to some 2,000 Arikara Indians [tribesman pictured in a bear pelt]. A couple decades earlier they numbered 30,000, but two smallpox epidemics had devastated the tribe. Today a mere 1,000 of the tribe exist in all America, mainly living on Fort Berthold Reservation north of Grand River."
—Text from the National Geographic book Lewis and Clark: Voyage of Discovery, 1998
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