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Interpretive programs to be held at Fort Mandan this weekend
10/20/2009
The Lewis & Clark Fort Mandan Foundation welcomes W. Raymond Wood October 24th and 25th as part of its Fall Interpretive Programming. W. Raymond Wood, Professor Emeritus, University of Missouri-Columbia will be presenting James Kipp: Maximilian’s Mentor.
James Kipp was the director or “bourgeois” of Fort Clark trading post during the visit of Prince Maximilian in the winter of 1833-1834. He played many parts in his role as a host to the prince, including acting as an interpreter for the many interviews Maximilian had with the Mandan residents of Mih-tutta-hang-kusch; as the source for Maximilian’s Mandan vocabulary; and as a caregiver while the prince was stricken with scurvy. Without Kipp’s wholehearted cooperation the prince would have left the Mandan without the rich store of ethnographic data on a tribe soon to be nearly obliterated by smallpox, a service he likewise provided a year earlier for George Catlin.
Wood’s presentations will be held in the Lodge Classroom of the Headwaters Fort Mandan Visitor Center. Programs will be held start at 11:00 am and 2:00 pm on Saturday and 2:00 pm on Sunday. Admission-Adults $7.50, students (K-college) $5, and members are free. For more information call 877-462-8535 or log onto www.fortmandan.com
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