The Heritage Outbound Adventure Trips , offering a variety of interdisciplinary topics, feature tours of the Missouri River and the Little Missouri National Grasslands. Interdisciplinary instruction will be provided by the sponsors, which are the State Historical Society of North Dakota, North Dakota Tourism Department, North Dakota Parks and Recreation Department, North Dakota Geological Survey, the Three Affiliated Tribes Museum at New Town, the Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center at Washburn, Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site at Stanton, the U.S. Forest Service, and the Bismarck Art and Galleries Association. The trips will include natural history specialists, artists and historians. Registration is required. Fees will be charged to cover transportation and food.
Space is limited. .
Participants will paddle a canoe to retrace the Missouri River experience of Lewis and Clark with the Mandan and Hidatsa as the explorers made their return trip in August 1806 through what is now North Dakota. They will also camp on the banks of the Missouri River in a tipi, examine earthlodge archeological evidence at Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site and Fort Clark State Historic Site, study the well-known artwork of Karl Bodmer and George Catlin and the bountiful natural beauties of Dakota. Throughout the trip, participants can try their hand at sketching the Missouri River corridor, as well as learn about the Three Affiliated Tribes past and present. The trip will be hosted by Birdwoman Missouri River Adventures. Departure from the North Dakota Heritage Center is scheduled for Saturday, August 12 at 7 a.m., with a return planned for Sunday, August 13 at 5 p.m.