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The
Robert L. Stigler, Jr.
Lectureship in Archaeology
2003
- 2004 Lecture Series
The Lewis &
Clark Expedition
Few adventures
captivate so many for so long as has Lewis and Clark's. Meriwether Lewis
and William Clark are spoken as one. And it is truly more than a name.
Theirs is a transcending event of American heritage. A saga indelibly
etched by the Corps of Discovery, President Thomas Jefferson, and the
Louisiana Purchase which, while not the catalyst for the expedition, became
its underlying reality of a new and mostly unexplored American West. Now,
200 years later the Lewis and Clark expedition is a beacon of America,
the continent and its people. During a nearly three year trek the Corps
of Discovery of about 40 men including Clark's slave York-and later too
the invaluable Shoshone woman Sacagawea, her husband Toussaint Charbonneau
and infant son John Baptiste--hauled 3,500 pounds of equipment and ascended
the Missouri River to its headwaters, crossed the continental divide,
by way of the Columbia River reached the Pacific Coast, and paddled back
to St. Louis, Missouri, where they arrived on September 23, 1806. The
Corps of Discovery suffered the death to illness of Sergeant Charles Floyd
near present Sioux City, Iowa, but lost no one else. It established a
remarkable and largely unsurpassed record of friendly contact with Native
peoples, marred only by the death of two Blackfeet. Had it not been for
Lewis and Clark's skill and good fortune in relying upon the Indians they
met along the way, the Corps of Discovery would have failed. Once they
pushed off for the upper reaches of the Missouri River in April 1805 they
were unheard of for over a year. Their expedition actually was given up
for dead by virtually all, save for Thomas Jefferson. But return they
did. The Lewis and Clark expedition was a triumph comparable or surpassing
that of the Apollo lunar program. The expedition was well planned and
deftly executed. In faithfully carrying out Jefferson's instructions,
Lewis and Clark balanced the goals of a scientific, commercial, political
and military expedition with the realities of the uncharted American West.
Their contribution is too voluminous to mention beyond a few highlights:
the end of the legendary Northwest Passage, maps and descriptions of the
western interior of North America, American Indian ethnography, cataloging
and sampling of wildlife. Not least and precedent setting was the first
democratic vote by all members of the Corps of Discovery upon reaching
the Pacific.
The elemental
clarity of Lewis and Clark comes from journals they kept and collections
made. Exactly where they camped, however, often is unknown and a vexing
issue, as there are so few well documented locations one can revisit today.
Our focus in this lectureship is to provide a larger historical, archaeological
and ethnological context for the expedition, and especially the many Indian
tribes upon whom their survival depended. We begin with a combined, two-day
Louisiana Purchase Conference on November 20-21. The Louisiana Purchase
Conference concludes with the Stigler lecture by W. Raymond Wood about
Lewis and Clark at Fort Mandan in present North Dakota. Next the lecture
in early February by Kenneth M. Ames picks up their trail on the Pacific
Coast, and the people they met. Our final lecture in late March is by
Gary E. Moulton, the historian and editor of the Lewis and Clark journals,
who speaks about their legacy.
We invite you to
meet our speakers at the informal receptions held in their honor following
their lectures.
Acknowledgements
In addition to
the Robert L. Stigler, Jr. Trust, the J. William Fulbright College of
Arts and Sciences generously augmented funds for this year's lectures.
November
20, 2003
W. Raymond Wood, Ph.D
Professor Emeritus
of Anthropology, University of Missouri-Columbia
 W.
Raymond Wood is a senior archaeologist and ethnohistorian. He
is a terrific listener, an accomplished storyteller, and has an infectious
enthusiasm for people of all walks of life. Archaeology, ethnohistory,
and Quaternary paleoecology of the North American Great Plains and Midwest
are prime interests. The archaeology of World War II and the historical
cartography of the Missouri River figure prominently too. Wood is a native
of Gordon, Nebraska, and a graduate of the University of Nebraska majoring
in Anthropology and English; his doctorate is from University of Oregon.
From 1961 to 1963 he was Curator of Anthropology, University Museum, University
of Arkansas-Fayetteville, and directed excavations at the Denham and Crenshaw
mounds, and Bushwhack and Breckenridge shelters, Arkansas. Since 1961
he has held faculty positions at University of Missouri-Columbia. Wood
is a recipient of the Byler Distinguished Professor Award, College
of Arts and Sciences, University of Missouri-Columbia, and Plains Anthropological
Society Distinguished Service Award and Founder's Award. He
has edited American Antiquity, the premier journal of North American
archaeology. From 1998 to 2000 he was Coordinator for Prehistory, Smithsonian
Institution's Handbook of North American Indians, Vol. 13, Plains.
He has been a consultant for the Lewis and Clark editorial project, Center
for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; and of Lewis
and Clark in North Dakota, State Historical Society of North Dakota.
Pertinent to his lecture are his books, An Atlas of Early Maps of the
American Midwest: Part II, Karl Bodmer's Studio Art: The Newberry Library
Bodmer Collection, and Prologue to Lewis and Clark: The Mackay
and Evans Expedition.
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This
Lecture Held In Conjunction With:
The
Louisiana Purchase Conference
Sponsors
for the Louisiana Purchase Conference include: The Butler Center
for Arkansas Studies at the Central Arkansas Library System, The
Hartman Hotz Lecture Series in Law and Liberal Arts, The Blair Center
of Southern Politics and Society, The Department of History's Timothy
P. Donovan Lecture, The Robert L. Stigler, Jr. Lectureship in Archaeology,
The Arkansas Center for Oral and Visual History, The Arkansas Secretary
of State's Office.
All
presentations will be held in Giffels Auditorium, Old Main
Schedule
Wednesday,
November 19
- 7-8 p.m.
"Music of the American Frontier," a concert by Clarke
Buehling
- 8-10 p.m.
"The Grand Expedition: Jefferson and the Mystery of the Red
River" by Dan Flores
Thursday,
November 20
- 8-9 a.m.
"Early Experiences and Extended Difficulties: Native Americans
Before and After the Purchase" by George Sabo III
- 9:15-10:15
a.m. "Choosing Enemies: Residents of the Louisiana Purchase
Face Osage and American Expansionism" by Kathleen DuVal
- 10:30-11:30
a.m. "The Forgotten Expedition: The Journey of Dunbar Hunter
Along the Ouchita River in Arkansas and Louisiana, 1804-1805"
by Trey Berry and Tim Knight
- 1-2 p.m.
"The Louisiana Purchase and Arkansas in America's Age of
Expansion: A Study in State and National Development" by
C. Fred Williams
- 2:15-3:30
p.m. "Briers and Swamps and Briers Aplenty: The Robbins-Brown
Survey Expedition and the Trials of Surveying the American Wilderness"
by John P. Gill and William E. Ruck
- 3:45-4:45
p.m. "Lewis and Clark, Kidnappers: The Louisiana Purchase
and American Expansion" by Elliott West
- 5-6 p.m.
"Racially Revolting: The Black Experience and the Louisiana
Purchase" by Charles Robinson
- 6:15-7:15
p.m. "Lewis and Clark and Their Neighbors at Fort Mandan"
by W. Raymond Wood (Stigler Lecture)
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February
5 , 2004
Kenneth M. Ames, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
of Anthropology/Acting Director, Chicano/Latino Studies Department of Anthropology,
Portland State University, Portland, Oregon
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Lecture:
"People on Nchi?Wana (The Big River): The Pacific Northwest
at the Eve of Lewis and Clark," Giffels Auditorium, Old Main, 7:30
p.m.
 Kenneth
M. Ames has worked at Portland State University since 1984. His doctorate
in Anthropology is from Washington State University. He has conducted
archaeological field research in western North American since 1968, and
along the Lower Columbia River since 1984. He is senior author, with Herbert
Maschner, of the book Peoples of the Northwest Coast, Their Archaeology
and Prehistory, published by Thames and Hudson, London, in 1999. This
book is now the authoritative reference on this region's prehistory and
people. He regularly contributes scholarly works to American Antiquity,
Antiquity, Journal of Field Archaeology, Annual Reviews
of Anthropology, Arctic Anthropology, North American Archaeology
and American Anthropologist. In 2000, he was awarded a grant as
a "Cultural Significant Person" by the Japanese Foreign Ministry,
and is currently developing research interests in Japan. Among his specialties
are the archaeology of western North America and the subject of complex
hunter-gatherers, such as the Chinookan peoples of the Lower Columbia
River Region with whom he is conducting cooperative research. Ames' recent
field research has focused on the Cathlapotle Town site, the location
of a Chinookan town visited and described by Lewis and Clark on their
return trip in March, 1806, and that provides insight into Chinookan life,
economy, and social organization before and during the early stages of
the fur trade.
Tentative
Itinerary
Thursday, February
5
- 9:00 am KUAF
interview for taped NPR radio program, "Ozarks at Large"
- 10:00 am-12:00
pm (noon) Meet faculty, students
- 12:00 pm Lunch
with students and faculty
- 1:30-4:30 pm
See campus, talk with others, free time, etc.
- 5:30 pm Dinner
at A Taste of Thai restaurant (31 E. Center) with faculty, students
- 7:30 P.M Evening
lecture
- 8:40 P.M. Informal
reception following talk
Friday, February
6
- Tour CAST, Arkansas
Archeological Survey facilities
Saturday, February
7
- Possible tour
with faculty and students of key archaeological sites such as The Narrows,
Spiro
March 25
, 2004
Gary E. Moulton, Ph.D.
Thomas C. Sorensen
Professor of History, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
 Gary
E. Moulton is Thomas C. Sorensen Professor of History at the University
of Nebraska-Lincoln, a recipient of its Distinguished Teaching Award
and Outstanding Research and Creative Activity Award. He is editor of
the Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Moulton began the editing
project in 1979 with support from the UNL Center for Great Plains Studies,
the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, and the National Endowment
for the Humanities, Washington, D.C.; he completed the thirteen-volume
edition in 1999. Moulton's research interests are historical editing,
the exploration of the American West, and American Indians. Among his
publications are a biography of Chief John Ross of the Cherokees (1978),
a two-volume edition of his papers (1985), and the journals of the Lewis
and Clark expedition (1983-2001). Significant research awards include
the Award of Meritorious Achievement from the Lewis and Clark Trail
Heritage Foundation in 1988, and the J. Franklin Jameson Prize for Outstanding
Editorial Achievement from the American Historical Association in 1990.
Moulton was a consultant for Ken Burns' 1997 film, "Lewis and Clark:
The Journey of the Corps of Discovery," and in 1998 he served as
an advisor to the United States Mint on the design of the one-dollar
Sacagawea coin; he was also an advisor for National Geographic's Lewis
and Clark IMAX film. Moulton was scholar-in-resident
at Fort Clatsop National Memorial, Astoria, Oregon, in 1999, and at
the Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center, Great Falls, Montana, in 2000.
Most recently President and Mrs. Bush invited him to the White House
to give a presentation in honor of their initiation of the Lewis and
Clark bicentennial.
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