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As part of
National Gardening
Month,
we look at plants
discovered by Lewis & Clark, medicinal uses, and the legacy
gardens along the
Lewis and Clark Trail.
"Lewis & Clark Montana Native Plant
Garden" at the Crazy Mountain Museum, Big Timber, Montana. Open
Memorial Day - Labor Day (Tuesday - Saturday) with limited hours.
Please call 406-932-5126.
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Jim Solomon, botanist
with the Missouri Botanical Garden ...
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Judy Bluehorse
Skelton is Nez Perce on her father's side of the
family and her mother is Cherokee. Today Judy speaks
of herbal medicine and the native way of making
relationships with the plant people.
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For thousands of years, the use of plants for
food, medicine, tools, clothing, homes and ceremony
has been an important part of Native American family
and community life. Lewis and Clark learned
of some of these edible and medicinal plants from
the tribes they met along the trail. |
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Lewis and Clark
Legacy Gardens
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NEBRASKA |
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SOUTH DAKOTA |
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Lewis and Clark
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"Flowering Plants Lewis &
Clark Collected Along the Snake and Columbia River" by William
H. Rickard, Ph.D. Botanist
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Plains Indians used various wild berries
and herbal plants in ceremonial rites that celebrated the gift of life
from Mother Earth ...
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April 1, 2008 at 7 PM : "Lewis and
Clark Revisited" presented by Dr. James Hanson in Chadron, Nebraska
at
Chadron
State
College -
Reta E. King Library.
Historian James A. Hanson earned a doctorate
in American history and anthropology from the University of Wyoming.
Formerly with the Smithsonian Institution and previously Director of the
Nebraska State Historical Society, he edits the Museum of the Fur
Trade’s publications and conducts its historical research program.
For more information call: 308-432-6271.
April 20, 2008: "In Their
Footsteps Series" -
1:00 PM @
The Visitor Center, Fort Clatsop, Oregon in the Netul River Room. Free Admission!
For more information call 503-861-2471 ext.214.
April
27, 2008: STAR PARTY" at
Lewis
and Clark Nat'l Historic Trails Center; Great Falls, MT. A
star-gazing experience with large telescopes set up for public
viewing, and interesting explanations of the features being
viewed. The Lewis and Clark Expedition relied on celestial
observation to chart their course. Learn more about our night
sky. For more
information call: 1-406-727-8733.
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