PUBLIC INVITED TO ATTEND CONFLUENCE SYMPOSIUM AT WILLISTON STATE COLLEGE JUNE 29

The public is invited to attend a symposium featuring new research about the confluence area of the Yellowstone and Missouri Rivers, located 20 miles southwest of Williston, on Saturday, June 29 beginning at 8:30 a.m. at Williston State College.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 12, 2002
Contact: Marilyn Snyder
(701) 328-2666

PUBLIC INVITED TO ATTEND CONFLUENCE SYMPOSIUM
AT WILLISTON STATE COLLEGE JUNE 29

BISMARCK - The public is invited to attend a symposium featuring new research about the confluence area of the Yellowstone and Missouri Rivers, located 20 miles southwest of Williston, on Saturday, June 29 beginning at 8:30 a.m. at Williston State College.

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.

Sponsored by the State Historical Society of North Dakota, "At the Confluence: Then and Now" is supported by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.

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 "Guarding the Confluence: A History of Fort Buford," 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. His presentation is entitled "From Lewis and Clark to the Present: Landscape Change at the Confluence."

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. Hoganson's presentation is entitled "Lewis and Clark's Geological and Paleontological Observations in North Dakota."
The cost for the symposium is $10. If attendees wish to participate in the dinner at Fort Buford on Friday evening held in conjunction with the teacher workshop, the cost is $16. To register or for more information, 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. The registration deadline is Monday, June 24.

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