Lewis and Clark: The Unheard voices [Penn State Rewriting History]

Penn State University ^ | November 13, 2002 | Wilma Mankiller, et al.

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Yellow Owl of the Mandan Tribe. Over one hundred years before this photo was taken, Lewis and Clark spent five freezing months near the Mandan Village in North Dakota. This thriving agricultural and trading crossroads of the northern plains had a population of about 5,000 at the same time that the population of Saint Louis was about 1,000.

Penn State invites you to participate in a conference that will explore the contexts, outcomes, and multiple meanings of the Lewis and Clark expedition. Conference organizers are planning a broadly based forum for understanding the expedition from the widest variety of disciplinary perspectives—history, art history, political science, literature, philosophy, anthropology, education, and science. By invoking “The Unheard Voices,” the organizers seek to convene a forum for Native Americans and other marginalized or unheard voices to recount the consequences of American nationalism and expansion, as well as to revisit the traditional narrative of the “Corps of Discovery.”

In the midst of the bicentennial celebration of the Lewis and Clark expedition, this conference will serve as a reminder that traditional narratives of the expedition have dropped a “veil of silence” over its impact and legacy. Given the centrality of the Lewis and Clark expedition to the formation of the American national consciousness, the conference is part of the ongoing effort to come to terms with the complexity of American history and the multiple narratives that have shaped the pluralism of American culture.

	an outreach program of the College of Arts and Architecture, the College of Education, Outreach & Cooperative Extension and in cooperation with the College of the Liberal Arts.

Some of the issues the conference will address include:

• How did the Lewis and Clark expedition shape the context of life for Native Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans, Latino/Hispanic Americans, and other marginalized voices?
• What were the consequences of the “opening of the West” on the environment?
• In what ways did the “opening of the West” affect the ethos and evolution of American society?
• How did the “opening of the West” shape public discourse and national policy toward the people, flora, and fauna of these regions?
• What are the legacies of Lewis and Clark for contemporary America?
• How has the expedition been represented in literature or popular culture?
• How has contemporary environmental thought and writing been influenced by the Lewis and Clark expedition?
• What is the relationship between the idea of the West today and the West in nineteenth-century America after the Lewis and Clark expedition?
• In what ways have the issues that were raised by the Lewis and Clark expedition remained unresolved?
• How does the Lewis and Clark expedition continue to influence the American imagination and public policy?
• How did visual culture help to construct images and ideas of the West?

Wilma Mankiller, social activist and the first female principle chief of the Cherokee Nation, will be the keynote speaker at the conference. Her presentation will focus on the often-overlooked social and political outcomes of the Lewis and Clark expedition for Native Americans.

Daniel Botkin, Donald Fixico, Patricia Nelson Limerick, Barry Lopez, Nell Irvin Painter, and Jaune Quick-to-See Smith will also present in this multidisciplinary examination of the consequences of American nationalism and expansion.

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[StopGlobalWhining]

If you're in the area Thursday, November 14, please stop by the Nittany Lion Ballroom at 7:30 PM to hear Wilma Mankiller tell the true story about the savagery of the evil white explorers, Lewis and Clark. Learn how they destroyed the environment, destroyed the lives of Native Americans and Latino Hispanic Americans, and how the "opening of the West" led to the rape of culture of the people, flora, and fauna of these regions.

If you were outraged at what the radical academic left has tried to do to Christopher Columbus, you ain't seen nothing yet. This conference is the first of a many pronged assault on Lewis and Clark, and is expected to define the agenda for rewriting their history beginning in the K-12 grades.

Oh, and did you know they brought a slave along with them? Well, you will after attending this conference. His name was York, and an Opera named after this unfortunate fellow will be presented on Friday, Nov 15 at PSU's Eisenhower Auditorium.

[Paul Atreides]

Wilma Mankiller

Very sexist name. It just goes to show the violence, depravity, and sexism of her cultural heritage.

[Free the USA]

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[Crusader Rabbit]

This is typcal hateful leftism from an academic. I suppose it would be useless to remind her that ascribing inter-generational guilt is such a morally bankrupt practice that the Bill of Rights forbids the government doing it.

If I follow this silly person's "reasoning", then as I am an American Indian and a descendant of William Clark I may rightfully hate myself.

Chalk one up for the academic deep-thinkers!

[StopGlobalWhining]

Sorry, some of the links near the top of the page were bad. Here are the correct links:

Agenda

Speakers - See Wilma Mankiller's photo and bio here.

Contact - Use the information here to provide feedback to Penn State on the agenda of this conference.

[elbucko]

you ain't seen nothing yet. This conference is the first of a many pronged assault on Lewis and Clark, and is expected....

Groan!

[okie01]

Wilma Mankiller

She made news when she became the first woman elected Principal Chief of the Cherokees in 1985. If you disagree with her, you are a sexist or a racist.

Probably both...

[elbucko]

What were the consequences of the “opening of the West” on the environment?

Nuclear Weapons in New Mexico?

Just a thought. (/satire)

[Paul Atreides]

What is interesting is that I don't know of any white people named William Womankiller or William Indiankiller.

[elbucko]

Wilma Mankiller

Looks to me like she killed a few "Twinkies" in between men.

[elbucko]

...I don't know of any white people named William Womankiller.....

...in the context of Monica Lewinski, it's probably just as well. :*)

[Paul Atreides]

William J. Kootchiekiller.

[Paul Atreides]

But, Bubba is black.

[tet68]

Welcome to the Stinking Desert National Indian Monument
and Cobalt Testing Range.

This announcement brought to you by the Humbolt County
Manifest Destiny Bureau, Dept. of Redundancy Dept.

[Desdemona]

Learn how they destroyed the environment, destroyed the lives of Native Americans and Latino Hispanic Americans, and how the "opening of the West" led to the rape of culture of the people, flora, and fauna of these regions.

And all from the bottom of a canoe.

[martin_fierro]

Just out of curiosity, whetever happened to those ugly Sacagawea dollar coins? Anyone ever handle one?

Or have they gone the way of the Susan B. Anthony coin?

[elbucko]

William J. Kootchiekiller.

Or Monica C.........!

The combinations are endless and this is a family rated site. We'll just have to use our imagination for most, if not all of the possibilities.

[Pookie Me]

and other marginalized or unheard voices

This is the rich part. I don't recall what other marginalized or unheard voices there would be?!?

I mean, when I saw the Ken Burns special, it was dead on.

Must have missed something in the translation...

Pookie & ME

[elbucko]

Welcome to the Stinking Desert National Indian Monument and Cobalt Testing Range.

Yeah, I know what you're sayin'. We white folk oughta' just finish ourselves off. We have been such a burden on the indigenous mankind of North America.

Don't forget that when we pack up and leave we take the cars, trucks and the horses with us. Indian didn't have no horses when the "White Devil' came. They were on foot. Lets leave 'em as we found 'em.

Adios! From just another G*d D*mn White Man. (/satire)

[Kay Ludlow]

I heard they were organizing something to "commemorate" the anniversary. I'm a Lewis & Clark Expedition fan, maybe I'll see if I can make it, maybe ask questions...