May 28

May 29

May 30

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

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
  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



Wednesday, May 28
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
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
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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