Show it I 7wi : J BEST AVAILABLE COPY n v vv C2 — The Herald Journal Logan Utah Friday March 14 2003 nesses: Namesakes are everywhere along the route Lewis & Clark Fret Control Services in North Dakota Lewis & Clark Theater Company in Nebraska There’s even a Lewis & Clark church In Idaho not far from where the explorers first met the Nez Perce that tribe’s tongue is taught in the language lab of a college called Lewis and Explore Continued from Cl plains of " “tumble" charging grizzlies of mountains’ majesty and the treacherous snowy passes where they nearly died helped establish a defining view of the West — and of America itself as an optimistic journey “No matter how often I return to it I'm struck again and again ‘How did' these guys pull it off?' The ingenuity the integrity the dogged- ness” says Gary Moulton a University of Nebraska pro- fessor who edited a 1 edition of Lewis and Clark’s journals The clay of the nation was still wet then barely a generation after the Revolution Today that clay has been molded into the shape of a superpower that sends out new expeditions —- to a space station It is a nation that planted crop rows and then rows of tract houses in the vast openness Lewis and Clark found it endured civil war world wars tenor attacks “Thanks for traveling” says a banner near screeners at the St the Louis airport a few miles from where the expedition traveled How Can we “remember" when so much has changed? ' As we take their route again we find pavement and dammed streams instead of nettles rattlesnakes and rapids a Starbucks where they dug roots for supper We follow them remembering but asking ourselveiTHow did the big new America turn out anyway? ruseless” X-r- ay cross-contine- AP photo Charles Floyd the only man to die on the Lewis and dark Journey wrote a diary shown in this recent photo It wilt go on tour around the country during the bicentennial celebrations Astoria Ore Turning east in spring they retraced the route and in SepSt tember 1806 Louis — where friends were present-da- y ed astonished “We were supposed to have been lost long since” Clark said “and were entirely given out by every person” Gerard Baker is a member of the Mandan-Hidat- North Dakota tribes with whom the expedition wintered “We need to discover what’s out there today” Baker says “What happened to those rivers that Lewis and Clark traveled? What hap-- ' pened to those species? What was it like to lose your language?” “What’s changed is us” Archibald says “I hope that we can reflect on this story for It’s sort our own generation of an opportunity for an examination of conscience" TYaversing the expedition route Baker says he’s con- stantly learning as Lewis and Clarkdid ‘ ' We provide services for individuals who ate suffering from depression anxiety marital conflicts sexual and chemical addictions anger problems Trauma and other issues BehavioralMental Hqa&h Services $ pe UpmUT84341 A Todd FncftMK r ire Just our yl5 ir-’SSSS- 1 ygynw ilSelBlfPfc uca- l- I I 1 C1 lf - SSb Bri1lott 1 Tn ' ' S HAS at Come See us simply 1 hL For 18 Holes Unbeatable with This Couponl your purchase S2&XZ Mlt 7" per For Less" Main Logan ’WSSST- 435-752-04- 77 best classuT ‘fiotTsick mower t $198 VIDEO STORE IN UTAH (Hire fabric "Sale1 But Not n Advertising Budget? ttooWngtor to H 2 I Special Monday- die sa We accept IHC Blue Cross Aldus PEHP First Health Champus and most other insurances III 1 1 r V I : Cloc!— Wa‘V 8 ’ ish& Style Ituu - cWelcome anything VWwtvic every Lawn ft Got1 iConsmidion equipment t h turnout The Veltew PW 1 i w j v1"!1!!- -- L: !"v 0 7534619 DY""" fc r Advertise with ust HoruwBoWtllo Topping Center Logan : thing” And Jefferson wanted more Great 752-91- non-nativ- es pinestraw trail How we see foe trip has always varied says Bob Archibald president of the National Council of the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial He researched school history texts and found a pattern In the decades after drey returned when die nation was busy taming the wilderness texts ignored Lewis and Clark of commerce” Look Has Changed! Women Men Child “It’s what makes us a people” she says walking a nt More Than US Clatsop Dr Matthew Hedelius and A Todd Freestone MSW LCSW are pleased to welcome Elizabeth Lloyd MSW CSW as a new clinical staff member Elizabeth will be providing individual marital and family therapy for children adolescents and adults She is now accepting appointments - 17-2- Sisseton-Wahpeto- texts with die women’s movement York’s with die civil rights movement the American Southwest) they failed to find the water route across the country (it doesn’t exist of course) “The reason the trail including tribes met by Lewis and dark Headier Debbie LaCraix a n Dakota ' and an ethnographer attended a program last summer in Montana where teachers visit- ed expedition sites and had discussions Did she learn anything that might help teach this delicate subject? She turns die question around will“What are do to about confronting ing their own stereotypes their own issues of colonization?” : she says “This is a stay of invasion This is a story of crossing of boundaries boundaries of sacredness Thank you fire die diseases Thank you for the murders Thank you for leaving us out of the history books What people see are die damned casinos — and that's every- “There’ll be a paragraph” By 1890 when historian Frederick Jackson Turner declared the frontier conquered “textbooks started to get nostalgic” Archibald says “Americans started to say what did we do?” Sacagawea’s place grows in What did the trip accomplish? Some exasperated by bicentennial hype say Lewis and Clark didn’t matter The West would have been settled anyway others had crossed the continent already Canada and (in present-da- y ' outlet Store War studen- t-painters pro-divers- ity JWCI Bond ’ critique It brands her an : “unfit parent” and a malingering “federal employee” For others the expedition is a mirror reflecting views for instance or an environmental agenda A river advocacy group Invites new members to join its “Voyage of Recovery” Most people paying intention to the bicentennial react more like Brenda Ryan of Aurora Colo a visitor to Fort y: A park in lowa a county in Montana a river in Oregon dozens of schools and busi- - 2 halo slips in a Harper’s magazine ht long-soug- In schools across the coun-'-T Lewis and Clark arc vehi--s for teaching: science math English composition That doesn’t mean die lessons are easy At die Ghemawa Indian School near Salem Otcm hallwiv murals honor the tribes of their renuuns scenic and unspoiled" sniffs the online journal Slate “is that it was Make maps (Clark’s detailed maps “brought the American West together for the first time” Ambrose said) Observe die religious medical and other practices of Indians (the explorers described dozens of tribes) Clark “In all your intercourse ' So this is one way we with the natives tret them in remember There are many the most friendly & conciliaothers tory manner which their own conduct will admit” the presiAt the spanking new $7 ' million Illinois historic site dent directed “Allay all jealousies as to the object of your near where the explorers ' launched up the Missouri' journey satisfy them of its ” innocence River local development officials calculate that each Lewis Jefferson had notified the ambassadors of France and and Clark tourist will spend $146 Spain of the route The Louisiana Purchase transfer- They’re planning an extravaganza at a NASCAR track ring much of this land to the Nonetheless tourism director United States was not finalArnold ized until shortly before the cautions Doug “We’re avoiding the word celexplorers set out ebration” Lewis invited his army That’s because of Indian friend William Clark to help lead the trip sharing “it’s sensibilities But many natives are energized too hoping to fatiegues it’s dangers and it’s honors” They assembled die picpresent a ture of their heritage Remote rest of the party: experts in tribes worry about the hordes’ hunting boat handling carimpact on sacred sites there pentry From Pittsburgh has already been damage: where boats were built in mid-- 1 803 they moved down the The Lewis and Clark hoopla has helped leverage Ohio River then up the Misfunds for a commemosissippi to the Missouri rative center says They spent tire winter of 1 803-0- 4 Abrahamson a descendant of near present-da- y the chief It’s a way of guaranWood River 111 then pushed teeing tribal members jobs against the Missouri' current land and a chance to preserve all the way to what is now North Dakota stopping their history among the welcoming Man-da- n In his first inaugural Indians for a frigid winter address Thomas Jefferson In the spring of 1805 after spoke of the young United sending the keelboat back States as “a chosen country downstream laden with notes with room enough for our maps and specimens includdescendants to the thousandth ing a prairie dog — still alive and thousandth generation” when it reached Jefferson — On Jan 18 1803 Jefferson they followed the river west wrote a secret letter to ConThey bestrode the Missouri’s headwaters in (he Rockies on gress requesting $2S90 for a expedition To Aug 12 lead it he appointed Lewis Then came a harsh discov-crthe officer Army Seemingly endless moun- who was his private secretary tain ranges separated them “The object of your misrivers from Pacific-flowin- g Jefferson Lewis wrote The portage would be brutal sion” “is to explore the Missouri At times near starvation drey River & such principal stream hauled tons of gear over of it as by its course A comtreacherous mountain trails munication with the water of then risked all on whitewater the Pacific ocean may offer the most direct & practical water communication across the continent for the purposes occupied parts of what would become the United States it was by no means certain the narrow string of states along the Atlantic coast would grow into a continental power Before the explorers some tribes they’d encounter had never met white people with all that portended Before them no one from the United States had set foot in much of this enormous land of plenty and of heartbreak Their descriptions of inviting “bowling-green- Keep notes on animal plant and soil types he said (Lewis recorded some 300 plants and animals new to science) ‘:v to place an ad ln — 1 1 1 1 J HkBEW Older Classic mn : i PAGE call Jamie at n ' s j 1 9- ' J I 11 |