Lewis and Clark and the Indian Country

Exhibits


	Karl Bodmer. "Mandan Village," from Prince Maximilian of Wied's Travels to the Interior of North America, 1843-1844.


	"Journal Commencing at River Dubois," Joseph Whitehouse, 1804-1806.


	George Catlin. "A Flathead Woman Basketing Salmon," copied from Souvenir of the North American Indians As They Were in the Middle of the 19th Century, 1852.

Lewis and Clark and the Indian Country
September 28, 2005–January 14, 2006

View the web exhibit at www.newberry.org/lewisandclark

Lewis and Clark and the Indian Country enriches the traditional account of the Corps of Discovery's expedition by telling the other half of the story—the story of the Native Americans the explorers encountered in the West. Focusing on five communities the expedition team met in their journey to the Pacific Ocean, the exhibit explored the native cultures that inhabited the "Indian Country," detailed the interactions between the explorers and western Indians, and considered the impact of those encounters on the past and present lives of those Indian tribes.

The exhibit included approximately 120 items from the Newberry Library's renowned American and American Indian history collections and additional materials on loan from peer institutions and organizations along the Lewis and Clark trail. The items on display, together with the voices and images of living Native Americans, invited visitors to reflect on the triumphs and tragedies that accompanied and followed Lewis and Clark's remarkable adventure.

Curator

Frederick E. Hoxie (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).

Consultants

Five consultants from the Native American communities that Meriwether Lewis and William Clark encountered along the expedition helped shape Lewis and Clark and the Indian Country:

Fred Baker (Mandan Hidatsa; Four Bears Museum)
Pat Courtney Gold (Chinook; Textile Artist)
Otis Half Moon (Nez Perce; National Park Service)
Darrell Robes Kipp (Blackfeet; Piegan Institute)
Marjorie Waheneka (Walla Walla; Tamastslikt Cultural Institute)

Related Public Programs

FULL DESCRIPTIONS

Recovering the Journals: The Strange History of the Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
October 1, 2005 at 11:00 am
SPEAKER: Gary E. Moulton (University of Nebraska–Lincoln)
In Search of Lewis and Clark
October 8, 2005 at 11:00 am
SPEAKER: James P. Ronda (University of Tulsa)
First Voices: Native American Perspectives
October 15, 2005 at 10:00 am
SPEAKERS: W. Otis Halfmoon (Nez Perce; National Park Service), Marjorie Waheneka (Cayuse/Umatilla/Warm Springs; Tamastslikt Cultural Institute), and Pat Courtney Gold (Wasco; fiber artist )
Across the Wide Missouri: Maps of the Indian Country Before Lewis and Clark
October 20, 2005 at 5:30 pm
SPEAKER: W. Raymond Wood (University of Missouri)
Indian Country Today Through Photography and Film
November 5, 2005 at 11:00 am
SPEAKERS: Richard Mack (Quiet Light Publishing) and Sally Thompson (University of Montana)
Mapping the West with Lewis and Clark
November 10, 2005 at 5:30 pm
SPEAKER: Ralph Ehrenberg
Our Story
November 19, 2005 at 10:00 am
SPEAKER: Darrell Robes Kipp (Blackfeet; Piegan Institute)
_^PLAYERS:Students from the Nizipuhwahsin (Real Speak) School
Using the Past to Live in the Present
December 3, 2005 at 11:00 am
SPEAKER: Frederick P. Baker (Mandan/Hidatsa; Three Tribes Museum and Fort Berthold Community College)
Charbonneau's World: French Guides and Traders in the Early Far West
December 3, 2005 at 1:30 pm
SPEAKER: Richard Hètu (La Presse)
COMMENTATORS: Frederick P. Baker (Mandan/Hidatsa; Three Tribes Museum and Fort Berthold Community College) and Susan Sleeper Smith (Michigan State University)
Thomas Jefferson's West
December 10, 2005 at 11:00 am
SPEAKER: Peter Onuf (University of Virginia)
Learning from Lewis and Clark
January 14, 2005 at 11:00 am
SPEAKER: Frederick E. Hoxie (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Resources

The companion book Lewis and Clark and the Indian Country: The Native American Perspective (ISBN 978-0-252-07485-1 Paper; 978-0-252-03266-0 Cloth) may be purchased from the A.C. McClurg Bookstore at the Library.
D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History
Library collections for American Indian History

Traveling Exhibition

The National Endowment for the Humanities has awared the Newberry Library a grant to create a traveling version of Lewis and Clark and the Indian Country. This traveling panel exhibition, developed in partnership with the American Library Association, will tour over 20 U.S. cities between October 2007 and April 2012 (view schedule). For additional information about the traveling exhibition, contact the ALA Public Programs Office at publicprograms@ala.org or call toll free 1-800-545-2433.

This exhibit was made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this Web site do not necessarily reflect those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

The Sara Lee Foundation was the Lead Corporate Sponsor of Lewis and Clark and the Indian Country.

The exhibit also received funding from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the National Park Service's Lewis and Clark Challenge Cost-share grant program.