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Reviewed by James J. Holmberg | Book Review | The Indiana Magazine of History, 105.1 | The History Cooperative
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Lewis & Clark and the Indian Country
The Native American Perspective

Edited by Frederick E. Hoxie and Jay T. Nelson
(Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. Pp. 366. Illustrations, index, bibliography. Cloth-bound, $70.00; paperbound, $24.95.)

Planning for the Lewis and Clark expedition began in early 1803. The expedition itself lasted from 1803 to 1806. Planning for the commemoration of the expedition's bicentennial began some ten years before the actual January 2003 opening ceremonies. The expedition involved thousands of people in its planning, administration, and execution. The bicentennial involved millions, from those who worked in its planning stages to those who attended events on local, state, and national levels. Contemporary media coverage of the expedition was scant, and published accounts were relatively few. Not so for the bicentennial. The sum total of all the related events, publications, films, products, etc., easily numbered in the thousands. Some bicentennial efforts were better than others and made a more lasting contribution to the Lewis and Clark legacy. From the beginning of planning, organizers committed to having meaningful Native American input and involvement. Working with those tribes whose ancestors made the success of the expedition possible, they saw the bicentennial as an opportunity to tell the Indian side of the Lewis and Clark story and also to address the issues and challenges faced today by the descendants of those native peoples whom the Corps of Discovery encountered. . . .
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