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Lecture focuses on Native Americans

The Museum of the Rockies inaugurates its new lecture series, Encounters in the American West, with a panel discussion, Native Americans in Public History today at 7 p.m. in the Museum of the Rockies' Hager Auditorium.

This new public educational series will feature prominent speakers in the fields of American Western history, culture and the arts to create a dynamic platform for the study and exchange of ideas about the West.

The lectures will be held on Tuesday evenings at 7 p.m. in the Hager Auditorium and will include three events this spring and three in the fall.

At this first lecture, the panelists will discuss issues relating to Native American museum representations, the participation of Native Americans' in public history programs and popular misconceptions of Native American history in the contemporary West.

Speakers on the panel include: Emily Greenwald, associate historian, Historical Research Associates and author of "Reconfiguring the Reservation: The Nez Perce, Jicarilla Apaches and the Dawes Act;" Joseph Horse Capture, associate curator, Africa, Oceania and the Americas, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Tony Incashola, director, Salish Culture Committee; Bill Yellowtail, Crow, senior project specialist at the Cook Center for Sustainable Agriculture. Introductions and comments will be made by Walter Fleming, head of MSU's Native American studies department and Cindy Ott, curator of history at the Museum of the Rockies.

This event is free and open to the public. For more information call 994-6578.

Middle Schools offer

joint band festival

Chief Joseph and Sacajawea Middle Schools combine with Bozeman High School to present a band festival concert today.

The six seventh and eighth grade bands from the two middle schools will team with the Bozeman High School Symphony Band to create a motivational learning opportunity for advanced middle school band students. The middle school students from both schools will combine for several selections for the audience and will be followed by a short performance by the top band at Bozeman High School. The young students will play a concert band number with the high school students to end the program.

The concert is at 7:30 pm in the Willson Auditorium and is free and open to the public.

Bozeman Library

offers free classes

The Bozeman Public Library offers free "Learning at the Library" classes.

"Searching the Catalog" will be at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 26, for people to learn to use the new library catalog.

"Introduction to E-mail," a two-day session, will be at 8:30 a.m. Thursday and Friday, Jan. 27-28. This class will help people set up a free e-mail account, send and receive messages, and try some advanced features.

Classes are limited to eight participants and last one hour. For information and registration, call 582-2410.

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