TEACHER WORKSHOP FEATURING NEW CONFLUENCE RESEARCH JUNE 28-29 AT FORT BUFORD, WILLISTON STATE COLLEGE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 31, 2002
Contact: Marilyn Snyder
(701) 328-2666
TEACHER WORKSHOP FEATURING NEW CONFLUENCE RESEARCH
JUNE 28-29 AT FORT BUFORD, WILLISTON STATE COLLEGE
BISMARCK - The State Historical Society of North Dakota is sponsoring a two-day workshop for teachers featuring new research on the history and development of the confluence of the Missouri and Yellowstone Rivers near Williston. The workshop will begin Friday, June 28 at Fort Buford State Historic Site recreating for participants a day in the life of the fort, and culminate in a symposium featuring a series of presenters at Williston State College on Saturday, June 29.
The workshop, "At the Confluence: Then and Now," is open for teachers grades K-12. It is supported by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
National and local scholars will present their research on the history of Fort Buford Military Post and Fort Union Trading Post, the Trenton area and the Métis, the Crow Flies High band of Hidatsa Indians, as well as the geography and paleontology of the Confluence.
One graduate credit from Minot State University is available to teachers completing both days of the workshop. The workshop is limited to 40 teachers. The registration cost is $55, which includes the one graduate credit. The deadline to register is Friday, June 14 or when filled. To register or for more information, teachers should call Vance Olson, director of the Williston Area Teacher Learning Center, at (701) 774-4270, fill out the registration form on the State Historical Society's web site at DiscoverND.com/hist or visit the Williston Area Teacher Learning Center at Williston State College.
On Friday, June 28, teachers will relive a day from the past at Fort Buford with drills, work stations and conditions similar to what the soldiers and other fort occupants would have experienced during the late 19th Century. The activities will begin at 8 a.m. with the teachers forming squads for the day. Members of the Fort Buford 6th Infantry Regiment Association, State Historical Society of North Dakota Western Regional Manager Chris Johnson, Fort Buford Site Supervisor Chuck Stahlnaker, and several of the presenters for the Saturday symposium will participate in the activities and share information throughout the day. The day's events will conclude with a rib feed at 6 p.m., followed by a performance by the Sacred Eagle singers and dancers, elementary and secondary students from Mandaree who will share traditional songs and dances.
On Saturday, June 29 the teachers will join members of the public for a symposium continuing the theme, "At the Confluence: Then and Now," at Williston State College, starting at 8:30 a.m. The focus for the day will be new research about the confluence area of the Yellowstone and Missouri Rivers located 20 miles southwest of Williston.
Speakers for the symposium include:
Dr. Mark Harvey, associate professor of history at North Dakota State University in Fargo, and contract researcher Carla Kelly of Valley City, who will premier their new research on Fort Buford, which operated as a key military post from 1866 to 1895. Harvey will present information from his research entitled "A History of the Missouri-Yellowstone River Confluence" and Kelly will present new research from her work, "The Buildings of Fort Buford, 1866 - 1895;"
Dr. John Logan Allen, author of several books, including Passage Through the Garden: Lewis and Clark and the Image of the American Northwest, will present updated geographical information on the Missouri River and especially the Confluence area;
Dr. John Matzko, author of Reconstructing Fort Union and chairman of the Division
of Social Science at Bob Jones University in Greenville, South Carolina, will present information from his research on the fort;
Dr. Greg Camp, resident Lewis and Clark historian for the State Historical Society of North Dakota and author of "Working Out Their Own Salvation: The Allotment of Land in Severalty and the Turtle Mountain Chippewa Band, 1870-1920," will present his new research, entitled "The Dispossessed: Trenton Area Chippewas and Métis, 1892 - Present;"
Marilyn Hudson, Director of the Three Affiliated Tribes Museum in New Town, will present information on the Crow Flies High band of Hidatsa Indians who lived at the Confluence in the 1870s and 1880s; and
Dr. John Hoganson, paleontologist for the North Dakota Geological Survey, will present research from his upcoming book, co-authored with Ed Murphy from the North Dakota Geological Survey, Guide to the Geology of the Lewis and Clark Trail in North Dakota.
- 30 -
This article courtesy of http://www.yellowstoneparktour.info.
You may freely reprint this article on your website or in
your newsletter provided this courtesy notice and the author
name and URL remain intact.