In this episode of Gritty and Green, host Meredith Nutting goes behind the scenes at the Academy of Natural Sciences' exhibit that's rewriting and correcting a history we all learned in grade school - the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Marina McDougall walks us through the new exhibition, Botany of Nations Indigenous Ecological Knowledge and the Lewis & Clark Corps of Discovery exploring how to bring the history into the present with the First Peoples perspective.
Find out more about the exhibit - Botany of Nations Indigenous Ecological Knowledge and the Lewis & Clark Corps of Discovery
You can hear more about Benjamin Smith Barton who taught Meriweather Lewis about botanical collection in the Gritty and Green episode - Talkin' 'Bout a (Botanical) Revolution
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