Activity
Time:
Great Plains lecture: “Encounters at the Heart of the World”
Date:
3:30 pm –
5:00 pm
Great Plains Art Museum
1155 Q St.
Lincoln NE 68508
Lincoln NE 68508
Directions: 12th and Q streets, parking in the Que Place garage
Contact:
Katie Nieland, (402) 472-3965, knieland2@unl.edu
Elizabeth Fenn, professor and chair of the Department of History at the University of Colorado Boulder, winner of the 2015 Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize, and 2015 Pulitzer Prize winner for history, will present a history of the Mandan people.
The Mandan Indians lived on the upper Missouri River and are often known for assisting Lewis and Clark when they chose to build their fort near the Mandan villages during a difficult winter. Fenn has used new discoveries in archaeology, anthropology, climatology, and nutritional science to paint a more complete picture of the life of the Mandan. The society had a famous reputation for hospitality, but also had agricultural and commercial prowess. The civilization all but disappeared when disease and the intrusion of new traders changed their world, though a sense of tradition and culture endured.
The lecture is part of the Great Plains, Great Ideas Paul A. Olson seminar series.
The Mandan Indians lived on the upper Missouri River and are often known for assisting Lewis and Clark when they chose to build their fort near the Mandan villages during a difficult winter. Fenn has used new discoveries in archaeology, anthropology, climatology, and nutritional science to paint a more complete picture of the life of the Mandan. The society had a famous reputation for hospitality, but also had agricultural and commercial prowess. The civilization all but disappeared when disease and the intrusion of new traders changed their world, though a sense of tradition and culture endured.
The lecture is part of the Great Plains, Great Ideas Paul A. Olson seminar series.
http://www.unl.edu/plains/great-plains-great-ideas-paul-olson-seminars