“Lewis and Clark and the Indian Country” tells the story of the explorers’ historic 1804–1806 expedition from a different point of view—that of the Indians who lived along their route. During their journey to the Pacific coast and back, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark and their small group of voyagers crossed the traditional homelands of more than 50 Native American tribes. The exhibit examines this monumental encounter of cultures and examines the past and present effects of that encounter on the lives of the tribes which still live in the region. “Lewis and Clark and the Indian Country” is composed of six sections of panels of images and text drawn from original documents in the rich Native American collections of the Newberry Library, and in the collections of the Washington State Historical Society, the Minnesota Historical Society and other institutions.

"Unravelling the Geoarcheology and Holocene Stratigraphy of the Grand Canyon and southern Colorado Plateau," Tammy Rittenour, Utah State University

The distinguished philosopher Tyler Burge (UCLA) will deliver the keynote lecture for the Midwest Epistemology Workshop (October 17-18). His talk is entitled "Self-Understanding" and is sponsored by the Chambers Research Fund, the UNL College of Arts & Sciences, the UNL Philosophy Department, and the Cedric Evans Memorial Lecture Fund.

Inspired by the 1767 painting "An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump" by Joseph Wright, the play juxtaposes the lives of two generations in the same northern English home.