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Patricia Lowry can be reached at plowry@post-gazette.com or 412-263- 1590.
As superintendent of the National Park Service's Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail, Gerard Baker oversees a route that comes as close as possible to the explorers' original path, with stops from Wood River, Ill., to the state of Washington.
As a full-blooded American Indian, Baker, 49, brings a broad perspective to the job, and to the planning of the park service's traveling exhibit "Corps of Discovery II: 200 Years to the Future," now encamped near the Fort Pitt Museum in Point State Park.
"The first thing I had to establish is this is not a celebration. This is a bicentennial commemoration. The tribes viewed Lewis and Clark as the opening of the West and thus an end to our way of life," said Baker, who grew up on the Fort Berthold...