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 A Confluence of Cultures: Native Americans and the Expedition of Lewis and Clark is a national conference designed
to examine new perspectives about Lewis and Clark. The entire length
of the Corps of Discovery’s journey was Indian Country. On many
occasions, Lewis and Clark’s survival and success depended on
Indian people and the cultural lessons shared. Any complete commemoration
of the bicentennial must prominently feature the perspectives of both
the people native to the North American continent and President Jefferson’s
explorers.
> See February issue of Main Hall to Main St.
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Fred Hoxie, former Director of the D’Arcy McNickle Center for the History of the American Indian, The Newberry Library. Editor of The Encyclopedia of North American Indians. |
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David Wilkins, a Lumbee Indian and Associate Professor of American Indian Studies, Political Science and Law at the University of Minnesota. Co-author of Tribes, Treaties, and Constitutional Tribulations along with Vine Deloria, Jr.
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Barbara Belyea serves as Professor of English at the University of Calgary. At the conference, she explores her thesis about the concept of "discovery." |
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Darrell Kipp, a member of the Blackfeet nation, founded the Piegan Institute and the Nizipuhwahsin language school in Browning, Montana. |
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Mary Clearman Blew is an English faculty member at the University of Idaho.
She will discuss "sense of place" and related stories and perspectives.
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Johnny Arlee is an elder of the Salish Nation and producer of an outstanding pageant on Salish traditions and the Salish People's encounter with Lewis and Clark. |
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Joseph F. McDonald is the founder and President of Salish Kootenai College located in Pablo, Montana. President McDonald will deliver the Opening Ceremony address. |
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Amy Mossett is a nationally recognized consultant, spokesperson, scholar, and interpreter on the life of Sacagawea. She is the Missouri River co-chair for the National Bicentennial Council's Circle of Tribal Advisors, a Mandan/Hidatsa and a member of the Three Affiliated Tribes of North Dakota. |
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Louie Adams is a Salish tribal elder and presents on local place names and the origins and importance of place names. |
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Harry Fritz chairs The University of Montana History Department and is a nationally known expert on Lewis and Clark. |
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Roberta "Bobbie" Conner directs the Tamástslikt Cultural Institute in Pendleton, Oregon. She co-chairs the Circle of Tribal Advisors to the National Council of the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial. |
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Jim Holmberg conducted the research and authored the book Dear Brother: Letters of William Clark to Jonathan Clark based on the recently located letters written by William Clark to his brother. He serves as curator of special collections at the Filson Historical Society in Louisville, Kentucky. |
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Hal Stearns is a member of the Montana Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Commission Board and Chair of its Education Committee. A retired history teacher, Mr. Stearns has served as a Lewis and Clark interpreter for many tour groups as well as speaking across the country at various Bicentennial functions. |
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 The conference logo (top-right) was drawn by an unknown Indian artist around 1846-47 near Fort Benton, Montana. The illustration from Wilderness Kingdom by Nicolas Point, S.J., is reprinted with permission of Loyola Press.
 "Quanah Parker" © 30" x 30" oil on linen, 1999. Courtesy of the artist Robert Orduño
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