Symposium on Viking/Norse and American Indian Cultural Integration, 1000 – 1500 A.D.

Missouri History Museum

5700 Lindell Blvd. in Forest Park

Date & Time:

Symposium

Saturday, September 26, 2015 at 10 AM – 4 PM

Sunday, September 27, 2015 at 12 – 4 PM

Blue Heron Pavilion, Valley Park, MO

Online reservations:

General Admission $27.37

Boy Scouts, Order of the Arrow:

All scouts wearing their uniforms and regalia are admitted free to the event!

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

Myron Paine, PhD

Author: Frozen Trail to Merica: Talerman (2007) and Walking to Merica (2008). Lenape Lenni Indian and Walam Ulam expert.

Ralph Rowlett, PhD:

Naskapi & Inuit Folklore, Legends

Eric Hinrichs, PhD: Nordic & Algonquin languages, DNA

Author: Viking Christian Missionaries to Americas – 1000 – 1500 A.D.,

500 Years of Viking Presence in America

Steve Hilgren, Bonnie Rasmussen & William Smith:

Artifacts, lectures, books, historical documents

& film: Kensingtonsteinensgata (The Mystery of the Kensington Stone)

Freda Cruse Hardison

Talk on the ‘Birth of the Ozarks” Intermarriage & Integration of Native Americans in our own Missouri Ozarks!