"To The West" - from Montaña
by Michael Gordon

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From Tucumseh's speech to the Osages, Winter 1811-12:

Brothers, We all belong to one family; we are all children of the Great Spirit; we walk in the same path; slake our thirst at the same spring...

Brothers, We are friends; we must assist each other... The blood of our fathers and brothers has run like water. We are threatened with a great evil.

From a letter of Thomas Jefferson to Meriwether Lewis:

June twentieth eighteen o three.

To Meriwether Lewis, Captain. From Thomas Jefferson, President.

The object of your mission is to explore the Missouri River and such principal stream of it, as by its course and communication, with the waters of the Pacific Ocean, whether the Columbia, Oregon, Colorado or any other river may offer the most direct and practicable water communication across this continent for the purposes of commerce.
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Performed by The Crossing
Donald Nally, conductor
www.crossingchoir.org

filmed on the Smith River in Montana

video by Four/Ten Media
www.fourtenmedia.net/

produced by The Warren Miller Performing Arts Center, Big Sky, Montana
John Zirkle, executive director
www.warrenmillerpac.org/

with support from The National Endowment for the Arts
www.arts.gov/

directed and conducted by Donald Nally
with assistance from Kevin Vondrak and John Grecia

sound by Luke Scheeler of Jerico Studios, Bozeman, Montana www.jerecostudios.com/

additional mixing by Four/Ten Media

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