#9 Circle of Cultures, Time of Renewal & Exchange
October 2004
College of Mary, Bismarck, North Dakota
The last national signature event of 2004 was Circle of Cultures, commemorating the Lewis & Clark Expedition’s pleasant 1804-1805 winter spent among the Mandans and Hidatsas.
The event, held in October 2004, in partnership between the Mandan-Hidatsa-Arikara Nation and the Lewis & Clark Fort Mandan Foundation, was based at the College of Mary campus in Bismarck, North Dakota.
Tribal programming includes:
Tribal Partner: Mandan-Hidatsa-Arikara Nation.
Twin Buttes and White Shield Elementary Schools: Student presentations.
The Art of Karl Bodmer: Rare exhibition of Bodmer’s paintings of American Indians.
Earth Lodge Village: Reconstructed village of four full-sized, authentic earth lodges on a bluff overlooking the Missouri River. At the conclusion of activities, the lodges are dismantled and reassembled in the Tribal communities of Mandan, White Shield, Twin Buttes and Mandaree.
Mandan-Hidatsa-Arikara Scholars and Presenters: Gerard Baker, Amy Mossett, Keith Bear, Calvin Grinnell.
Corps of Discovery II: 200 Years to the Future.
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