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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30

9:00 a.m. – Rembrandt Room
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“LEWIS AND CLARK SLEPT HERE”: TEACHING TEACHERS ABOUT THE CONTEXTS AND LEGACIES OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION

Chair: Bethany Andreasen, Minot State University
Bethany Andreasen, Minot State University
Joseph Jastrzembski, Minot State University
Ernst Pijning, Minot State University
Dan Ringrose, Minot State University

Comment: The Audience

9:00 a.m. – Renoir-Russell Room
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BRITISH MILITARY PRACTICE

Chair and Commentator: Jerry Sweeney, South Dakota State University

“Major A. R. Chater, DSO, RMLI, and the Experience of War: From Boy Lieutenant to Decorated Combat Veteran, 1914–1918” - Donald Bittner, U.S. Marine Corps Command and Staff College

“British Implementation of the Martial Race Theory in the Indian Army: A Military Perspective, 1857–1893” - C. E. Wood, Glenville State College

9:00 a.m. – DaVinci Room
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THE PERSONAL AND PUBLIC WRITINGS OF TWO DAKOTANS

Chair: Nancy Tystad Koupal, South Dakota State Historical Society

“Dr. Orin G. Libby and the ‘New’ Northwest” - Gordon L. Iseminger, University of North Dakota

“Bringing Felix Gollnick to Life on the Western Edge” - Donald W. Ehli, Dickinson, North Dakota

Commentator: Barbara Handy-Marchello, University of North Dakota

9:00 – Wyeth-Rockwell Room
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FINDING EDEN: UTOPIAS AND WILDERNESS

Chair: Janet Daley, Independent Editor, Bismarck

“The Apostolic Form of Living: The Utopian Encounters of John Otis Wattles” - Timothy Westcott, Park University

“The Origins of William Cronon’s ‘The Trouble with Wilderness: or Getting Back to the Wrong Nature’” - Ruth Wachter-Nelson, University of Wisconsin Stevens Point
Commentator: Paul Harris, University of Minnesota Moorhead

9:00 a.m. – Manhattan-Liberty Room
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POPULAR CULTURE

Chair: Kathleen Davison, State Historical Society of North Dakota

“Radio Noir? The Parody of Noir in Radio Detective Drama” - James R. Belpedio, Becker College

“The Beatles in Minnesota: The Concert and the Legacy, 1965” - Steven R. Hoffbeck, Minnesota State University Moorhead

“The Concertina, a Cultural Import: From Chemnitz to Chicago to Minnesota” - LaVern J. Rippley, St. Olaf College

Commentator: Debra Mulligan, Roger Williams University

9:00 a.m.– Picasso Room
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EXPLORING LIVES OF NATIVE PEOPLES AND FUR TRADERS ON THE UPPER MISSOURI

Chair: Greg Gagnon, University of North Dakota

“Uncovering Double Ditch Village State Historic Site” - Fern Swenson and Paul Picha, State Historical Society of North Dakota

“Fur Traders as Undertakers” - Michael Casler, Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site

“An Unknown Factor: The Role of African-Americans in Fort Union” - Richard Stenberg, Williston State College

Commentator: W. Raymond Wood, University of Missouri–Columbia, emeritus

AFTERNOON TOURS

#1 - Military Tour to Fort Abraham Lincoln, Fort McKeen, On-a-Slant Village, and the Veterans’ Memorial Cemetery, led by historian J. Michael McCormack, Bismarck State College.
1:00 – 4:00 p.m.

#2 - Encounters Tour to Double Ditch State Historic Site and the Lewis and Clark
Interpretive Center/Fort Mandan in Washburn
1:00 – 5:00 p.m.

 

Tickets for the guided tours must be purchased in advance, using the registration form. The charge covers transportation and all entrance fees.