This just in from the Department of Misplaced Anger...

Lewis & Clark Re-Enactors Face Protests

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- A group re-enacting the Lewis and Clark expedition were confronted in South Dakota by American Indian leaders who questioned the legacy of the 200-year-old trip and its effects on native culture.

"I went as a peaceful emissary and asked in a kind way if they would leave," said Alex White Plume, a Lakota from Pine Ridge, S.D., who led the protest. "They should go home and rethink what they did to the native population."

What they did? Please, someone tell me exactly what these reenactors did to the native population?

Newsflash for Alex White Plume: These reenactors didn't do anything to the native population.

Unless, of course, these reenactors did something other that show up wearing funky clothing, and probably smelling a bit, they've done exactly squat. If you have evidence to the contrary (and CBS wasn't in any way involved in obtaining that evidence) then press charges. Otherwise, shut yer yap.

Calling the folks whom I suppose Alex is talking about "natives" is about as accurate as calling them "Indians".

I suppose it's all a matter of how far back you take things, isn't Alex?

Everyone that these reenactors have passed along their journey, whether they were white, red, black, yellow or brown and were born wherever the reenactors passed them, are considered the "native population".