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May 29
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May 30
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9:00 a.m.
Registration begins
1:00 p.m.
Welcome Ceremony
3:00~4:30 p.m.
Research Presentations
5:00 ~8:00 p.m.
Art Exhibit Opening Reception
7:30 p.m.
Featured Entertainment by Charlie Hill |
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9:00 a.m.
Research Presentations
10:30 a.m.
Keynote Presentation
12:30 p.m.
Traditional Lunch
2:30~3:30 p.m
Research Presentations
4:00 ~5:30 p.m.
Research Presentations
7:00~10:00 p.m.
Theatrical Performances
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9:00 a.m.
Research Presentations
10:30 a.m.
Keynote Presentation
2:30 p.m.
Research Presentations
3:30 p.m.
Response Time
5:00 p.m.
Final Banquet
7:00~10:00 p.m.
Musical/Dance Performances
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Wednesday, May 28
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Conference Welcome
[Opening Ceremony Address]
President Joseph F. McDonald (right)
200 Years Later: Which Direction Does the Compass Point?
Featured Presentation
Jim Holmberg
Big Medison: York's Life During and After the Lewis and Clark Expedition
Other Presentations
Poplar Schools (left)
Spirit of the Dance
Great Falls Schools / Longfellow Elementary
A Native American Youth Perspective: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Tierney Berger
Bison as Seed Dispersal Agents Prior to Euro-American Settlement
Florence M. Gardipee
The Yellowstone Bison: Preserving Part of the Past for the Future
Carolyn Thompson
Native American Women's Progress Since the Lewis and Clark Expedition
Jody L. Pepion (right)
Lewis and Clark: America's First Dead Beat Dads
Janis A. Johnson
Resisting Recolonization: The Lewis and Clark Bicentennial and the Nez Perce Tribe
Jeanine Downwind (Ojibwe - Red Lake), Colette Lawrence (Ojibwe - Leech Lake) and Joan Vanhala
Colonial Impacts on Urban Indians: Renewing Communities through Leadership and Policy
Donald Pepion
The Myth of the Chief: Examining Concepts of Leadership
Frederick Left Hand (left)
Expeditions and Bands: A Discussion of Leadership Styles
Denise L. Low
Landscape in a Cheyenne Ledger Book
Randall R. Skelton
Finding a Perfect Body for Sacagawea
Victoria V. Weaver
Interpreting Seth Eastman's Female Mode of Sitting: How & What Do 19th Century Artwork Communicate Ideas of Native American Identity.
Poster Display
Tonia Wisecarver
Bison Culture
Richard Wacha
Scientific Observations of the Lewis and Clark Expedition along the Iowa-Nebraska Border: A Review
Michaela R. Saunders
The Formation and Purpose of Indigenous Media: A Comparison between Australia and North America
Art Exhibit
Montana Museum of Art & Culture presents Summer Showcase
In conjunction with the Confluence of Cultures Conference
Centennial and Bicentennial:
Lewis and Clark in Perspective
Historical works from the permanent collection and contemporary works by Native American artists.
May 16 (Fri) ~ Sept 6 (Sat)
Meloy Gallery and Paxson Gallery
PARTV Building on The University of Montana campus.
Their Eyes Tell Everything
1906 - 1945
The Montana Chippewa-Crees
A Photographic Exhibit Collected by John Well-Off-Man
May 16 (Fri) ~ May 30 (Fri)
University Center Art Gallery
Featured Entertainment
Charlie Hill in Missoula
Emcee: Ellen Swaney
Introduction: Bear Head Swaney
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Thursday, May 29
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Keynote Presentation
David Wilkins (right)
A Constitutional Actuality: The Durable though Manipulable Status of Indigenous Nations
Featured Presentations
Johnny Arlee
A Teaching Tool Through Pageants or Plays
Barbara Belyea
The Silent Past is Made to Speak
Darrell Kipp
New Words - New Images from an Indian Reservation Native Son
Harry Fritz
Native Voices: The New Lewis and Clark Expedition
Other Presentations
Thomas A. Foor
In Search of Sacajawea's Homeland: Ethnohistory, Archaeology and the Lemhi Shoshone
Loren Yellow Bird
Now I Will Speak (nawah ti waako'): An Arikara Perspective on What the Lewis and Clark Expedition Missed
Gina R. Wernimont
American Indian Law & Identity
Ben Sherman (right)
The Legacy of William Clark
Bruce Van Haveren and Jim Garrett
Looking Back at Great Plains Landscapes: If We Knew Then What We Know Now
Bob Clark
Protecting the Lands of Lewis and Clark
Joe McGeshick (left)
Sacagawea: American Western Mythology Presentation
Evelyn Widhalm
Sacajawea: My Friend
Rosemary F. Gibbons
A Century of Genocide in the Americas: A Residential School Experience (video presentation)
Sally N. Thompson
Contemporary Voices Along the L&C Trail
Jill M. Wagner
Marketing the Myth: Selling the Lewis-Clark Expedition
Lynn Paxson
Commodification of Culture: Tourism Destinations, Sacred Sites
Richard A. Sattler
Lewis & Clark on The Columbian Plateau: The Ethno History of a Critical Non-Event
Pat Courtney Gold
The Indigenous Columbia River People "Discover" Lewis and Clark
Leandra Holland
Food and Native Diplomacy 1804-1806
Gwendolyn M. Buck
Nature is the Best Diet
Catherine Feher-Elston
Redefining America
Susan Buchel
Clark's Indian Sketch Maps: Indicators of Cross-Cultural Communication
Rose Ann Abrahamson (right)
Sacajawea
( left to right; Rose Ann Abrahamson, her aunt Eloise G. Lopez, her daughter Leela Abrahamson)
Mark F. Hammer and James Knotwell
Potential Changes in landscape Heterogeneity of the Nebraska Sandhills Following Fire Suppression and Cattle Grazing
Monica Mayer
Medicinal Aspects of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
Gregory R. Campbell
We Believed the Good Spirit had Foresaken Us
Calvin Grinnell
I Remember Red Hair and Long Knife: Oral Tradition of the Mandan and Hidatsa on Lewis and Clark
David Nicandri
Twisted Hair, Tetoharsky, and the Sacagawea Myth
Bea Medicine (left) and Roslyn LaPier
Dietary Change in Transition
Curly Bear Wagner
First Nations Discover Lewis & Clark
Sally N. Thompson
Non-verbal Communication and Miscommunication
Allen Y. Pinkham and Steven R. Evans
Lecture on Ordway
Richard Wojtowicz and Brad Coon
Coyote, Grizzlies and Native Americans: Then and Now
Charles E. Kay
Lewis and Clark: Aboriginal Overkill, and the Myth of Once Abundant Wildlife
Phil Konstantin
Variations in Tribal Names
George P. Horse Capture
The Communicating Tradition
Traditional Lunch
Attendees share a meal similar to what Indian tribes might have served members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition two hundred years ago.
Traditional Games
At the oval, Traditional Native American games were demonstrated.
Conference attendees also participated in some of the games.
Special Evening Performances
Carayiit Dancers Performance (left)
This Land I am Standing On(middle)
Our Songs Continue: Teaching Traditional Arikara Music and Songs (right)
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Thursday, May 30
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Keynote Presentation
Fred Hoxie (right)
Lewis and Clark in Indian Country: Opportunities Found and Lost
Featured Presentations
Louie W. Adams
Place Names of Western Montana
Hal Stearns
Special Encounters: The Education Jourmey of Lewis and Clark and the Indians
Amy Mossett (lower right)
Sacagawea: A Hidatsa Perspective
Mary Clearman Blew
Rivers of Stories, Stories of Place
Roberta "Bobbie" Conner
Emanating from the Earth: Belonging to a Place
Other Presentations
John Jackson
Viewing Lewis and Clark from the North: British and tribal reaction as recorded in the Records of the Hudson Bay Company
David OshKosh
Forestry - Its Role in Menominee History: A Historical Perspective
Blackfeet Community College
Impact of the Lewis and Clark Expedition on the Blackfeet Nation (Panel Presentation)

J. Frederick Fausz
Sovereigns of the Country:The Indian Policies of Jefferson, Lewis & Clark as a Legacy of Virginia's Two Centuries of Territorial Conquests
Kent McNeil (left)
Indian and American Sovereignty over the Missouri Watershed at the Time of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
Sara D'Angelo
Native Theater Programs for Yourth
Rodney Frey
Voicing An Indian Perspective: On Conducting a Collaborative Internet Project with the Nez Perce, Coeur d' Alene and Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs
Thomas F. Weso (left)
Powwow Origins and Federal Policy
Leslie A. Shope
To Live for Mankind: The Lewis and Clark Expedition and the American Enlightenment
Verne Huser
Cultural Confluences:The Key to Lewis and Clark's Success
Tony Incashola and Thompson Smith (right)
The Selish People and the Lewis and Clark Expedition
Blair G. First Rider
Kainai Traditional Knowledge and Traditional Land Use Study
Christina T. Kracher
Water Resources and Community Change of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Nation
Pauline Matt
Hidden Journals from the Heart & Soul
Mary C. Wright
American Persuasions: The Nez Perce, Jefferson, and Lewis and Clark in the Oregon Country
Stephenie Ambrose Tubbs (right)
A Lewis and Clark Companion; An Encyclopedic Guide to the Voyage of Discovery
Nicholas Vrooman
The Metis Red River Cart
Eli S. Suzukovich III
Trade and Identity: A Survey of the Metis in the Great Lakes
Tara Dowd and Rosalyn LaPier
Traditional Uses of Tobacco
Marco M. Sioli (left)
Indians as Pirates:
Concepts of Barbarity during the Lewis and Clark Expedition
Finale Banquet
Special thanks to the Missoula Chamber of Commerce Convention and Visitors Bureau for providing funding for the banquet entertainment,"Western Odyssey"
featuring Rob Quist (left) and Jack Gladstone (right).
Special Evening Performances
Traditional Songs of the Blackfeet (left)
Confluence of Youth Cultures (middle)
Songs, Storytelling and Play in the Blackfeet Language (right)

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