Good Grief: ‘Lewis And Clark’ Descendants Apologize To Indians For Stolen Canoe.

From USA Today via Story Balloon: Descendants of Lewis and Clark seek to right wrong over stolen canoe

Generational guilt?

Descendants of William Clark of the Lewis and Clark expedition to explore the West will try to make amends Saturday for a 205-year-old theft committed by their ancestors, the Associated Press reports from Long Beach, Wash.

Clark and Meriwether Lewis, after completing their journey west and spending a miserable winter at the mouth of the Columbia River in 1806, found themselves short a canoe for the journey home. So they stole one from the Chinooks who had kept them alive all winter.

Carlota Clark Holton of St. Louis, Mo., seven generations removed from William Clark, will be among the descendants who will present the Chinook Indian Nation with a 36-foot, custom built replica of the stolen canoe during a ceremony Saturday.

"I think everyone acknowledges that it was wrong, and we wanted to right a wrong," she said. "The family was very much behind it."

7 generations removed? The Chinooks had to have this reaction: who the hell are you?