The Minnesota Historical Society and the Oversight Board of the Statewide Survey of Historical and Archaeological Sites awarded George Holley, Department of Anthropology and Earth Science, and Ed Fleming, Science Museum of Minnesota, this summer a grant of $150,000 to conduct research on creating a Handbook of Minnesota Precontact Ceramics.
The Indigenous Media Freedom Alliance invited Professor Brad Bachmeier to help facilitate a pottery workshop June 17-18 at Twin Buttes, ND, on the Fort Berthold Reservation. The workshop followed archeological research and records of traditional forming and firing techniques. Native ND clay from the reservation was dug and processed. Hand-made vessels were produced, decorated and open-pit fired. Bachmeier joined the Paleo […]
Dr. David Kramar from Geosciences was recently invited to collaborate on a bald eagle telemetry and banding project in Iowa with researchers from Conservation Science Global and the USFWS out of the Moline, IL office. The project required accessing the eagle nests and capturing the juvenile eagles so they could be outfitted with high-resolution GSM-GPS telemetry units. The purpose of […]
Interested in sharing your enthusiasm for Science and Math? Noyce internships are available for Math and Science majors. Interns are being recruited to help with summer K-12 science and math enrichment activities. Preference is given to first and second year undergraduates. Internships pay $1,000 for approximately 100 hours of work. Noyce Internship applications are open until April 30. See the […]
Wednesday, April 24 | 7 p.m. | King 110 Please join the American Indian Center, MSUM AISA, and MSUM Anthropology in a discussion and presentation on Indigenous Cultural Appropriation and the Boy Scouts of America. This event will be held in King Hall 110 starting at 7 p.m.