Totemic tales and times: Commemorating exploration, discovery, and renewal

During 2004-05, Lewis & Clark offered the following events marking the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

Summer Teachers' Institute, August 8 to 13, 2004, Graduate School of Education and Counseling. Encounters: The New Worlds of Lewis and Clark immersed secondary teachers in the world of the explorers.

Symposium, October 1 and 2, 2004, second in a series of four. Encounters explored the initial contacts between Euro-Americans and Native Americans. Keynoter, N. Scott Momaday, Pulitzer Prize winning author, spoke on "When Cultures Meet."

Art Exhibition, Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art, September 2 to October 24, 2004. Artists in Encounters: Contemporary Native American Art challenged visitors to reexamine a complex and often paradoxical American history and present.

Continuing Legal Education Seminar, The Rule of Capture and Its Consequences, April 7 and 8, 2005, Lewis & Clark Law School. How the Lewis and Clark Expedition approached the acquired territory, and the legal fallout from this approach.

Traveling exhibition, The Literature of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, drawn from the College's unmatched library of expedition related literature and curated by Stephen Dow Beckham, Pamplin Professor of History, displayed at: Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center, Washburn, North Dakota, August 2 to November 7, 2004; Oregon Historical Society, Portland, November 26, 2004, to April 3, 2005; Washington State Historical Society, Tacoma, April 15 to June 12, 2005.

For this year's events, see www.thejourneycontinues.org.