Honoring Tribal Legacies

We partner with Honoring Tribal Legacies, a digital collection of teaching resources for use in classrooms everywhere: Tribal Legacy Project website Our Tribal Legacy Goals The Lewis and Clark Trail Foundation embraces and supports the following tribal legacy goals: Land Acknowledgement Over the past few years, LCTHF and our regions have taken some time during […]

Teacher Resources

The American Legacy: The Lewis and Clark Expedition Curriculum and Resource Guide for Middle and Junior High Schools grades 5–9 by the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation, 2001. The Corps of Volunteers for North Western Discovery created an American legacy. The success of this group of people history now calls the Lewis and Clark […]

Native Peoples

It is our sincere hope that these Native Peoples pages will propel you on your own personal voyage to learn more about those who were already there and to acknowledge our use of their lands. Land Acknowledgement We gratefully acknowledge Native Peoples who have lived on this land for millennia. Their dedication to the land […]

Tent of Many Voices

I invite you to come along the trail in two different ways. . . . One is the view from the keel boat as it goes up the river as it did 200 years ago.  But I also ask you to step off that keelboat and be in the villages of the American Indian Tribes […]

Beyond the Bicentennial

During the 2003-2006 Lewis & Clark Bicentennial, the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail managed by the U.S. National Park Service worked with the Circle of Tribal Advisors (COTA), Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Congressional Caucuses and others including the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation to “ensure that the voices of Tribal members, whose traditional […]