Salmon Creek — Gary Moulton, the Thomas C. Sorensen Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Nebraska and editor of the 13-volume “Journals of Lewis and Clark,” will give two talks Wednesday at Washington State University Vancouver.
Both are free and open to the public.
The first talk, “Lewis and Clark among the Indians,” will be held at 9:15 a.m. in the Multimedia Classroom Building, Room 219. As the new U.S. ambassadors to many Western tribes, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark encountered a sometimes bewildering world of economics, politics and personal relations with Native Americans.
The second talk, “Exploring the Explorers: What York and Sacagawea Meant for the Corps of Discovery,” begins at 1:30 p.m. in Room 16 of the Multimedia Classroom building. Moulton will discuss how the only African-American and Native American members of the expedition had lasting impact on race, gender and place, on the eve of American expansion.
Moulton is recognized as the preeminent expert on the impact of the Corps of Discovery on indigenous peoples, scientific knowledge and the course of history in the American West.
