How Sacagawea is portrayed
- Location: 4201 Giant Springs Road, Great Falls, MT, USA (View on Google Maps) Start Date: January 9, 2025
- Start Time: 7:00 pm
- End Time: 9:00 pm
Barb Kubik, Lewis and Clark Expedition historian, will speak on Thursday, January 9, about stories that have accumulated for 220 years about Sacagawea, the young Agaiduka Shoshone woman who accompanied the 33-member Corps of Discovery. Kubik’s talk begins at 7 p.m. (Mountain Time) at the Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center, 4201 Giant Springs Road, Great Falls, Montana.
Kubik will discuss how we use Sacagawea as a symbol, how we portray her in art and sculpture, and how the stories, symbols and statues compare to what we do know. Kubik has lived and worked along the Pacific Northwest portion of the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail for more than 40 years, exploring the trail and the story.
Some of Kubik’s most recent work as a consulting historian includes Meriwether, a role-playing video game that can be downloaded from Steam, based on the Corp of Discovery journey.
Barb Kubik
She also served as a consultant for Shannon Kelly’s two-part article for We Proceeded On, “Beyond the Conflict: Frederick Bates in the Greater Context of the Post-Expedition West” [May, August 2022] and the Clark County History Museum’s upcoming exhibition for the 200th anniversary of the Hudson’s Bay Company in present-day Clark County, Washington.
Kubik’s program is part of the Ida Johnson Speaker Series and is free to the public. The program is sponsored by the Portage Route Chapter of the Lewis and Clark Trail Alliance. For more information, contact the Interpretive Center at 406-727-8733.
