Upcoming Events and Speakers
The Portage Route Chapter is proud to offer a multitude of events and speakers throughout the year. Some special events are for our members, but most of them are free.
January 9, 2024 at 7 p.m.
Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center
4201 Giant Springs Road
Join us as Corps of Discovery historian Barb Kubik discusses some of the stories that have accumulated for 220 years about Sacajawea or Sah-kar-gar we a, the young Agaiduka Shoshone woman who accompanies the 33-memmber Corps of Discovery.
Kubik will discuss how she is used as a symbol, how we portray her in art and sculpture, and how the stories, symbols and statues compare to what we know.
Some of Kubik's most recent work as a consulting historian includes Meriwether, a role-playing video game that can be downloaded from Steam, based on the Corp of Discovery journey. She also served as a consultant for Shannon Kelly’s two-part article for We Proceeded On, “Beyond the Conflict: Frederick Bates in the Greater Context of the Post-Expedition West” [May, August 2022] and the Clark County History Museum’s upcoming exhibition for the 200th anniversary of the Hudson’s Bay Company in present-day Clark County, Washington.
Kubik’s program is part of the Ida Johnson Speaker Series and is free to the public. The program is sponsored by the Portage Route Chapter of the Lewis and Clark Trail Alliance. For more information, contact the Interpretive Center at 406-727-8733.
January 9, 2024 at 7 p.m.
Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center
4201 Giant Springs Road
Join us as Corps of Discovery historian Barb Kubik discusses some of the stories that have accumulated for 220 years about Sacajawea or Sah-kar-gar we a, the young Agaiduka Shoshone woman who accompanies the 33-memmber Corps of Discovery.
Kubik will discuss how she is used as a symbol, how we portray her in art and sculpture, and how the stories, symbols and statues compare to what we know.
Some of Kubik's most recent work as a consulting historian includes Meriwether, a role-playing video game that can be downloaded from Steam, based on the Corp of Discovery journey. She also served as a consultant for Shannon Kelly’s two-part article for We Proceeded On, “Beyond the Conflict: Frederick Bates in the Greater Context of the Post-Expedition West” [May, August 2022] and the Clark County History Museum’s upcoming exhibition for the 200th anniversary of the Hudson’s Bay Company in present-day Clark County, Washington.
Kubik’s program is part of the Ida Johnson Speaker Series and is free to the public. The program is sponsored by the Portage Route Chapter of the Lewis and Clark Trail Alliance. For more information, contact the Interpretive Center at 406-727-8733.
