https://bismarckstate.edu/events/Dakota-Bison-Symposium/
Welcome! We are looking forward to hosting Bismarck State College’s 5th symposium in 2021. We appreciate your interest and hope you will join us in September.
**To Register for Bismarck State College Dakota Bison Symposium,
Call 701-224-5600, or click HERE:
BSC Bison Symposium Agenda
Day 1—Bismarck State College and the North Dakota Heritage Center (Breakfast, lunch, reception appetizers provided)
Day 2—Tours to Southwestern North Dakota and Northwestern South Dakota (lunch, dinner provided)
Day 3—United Tribes Technical College (lunch provided)
The past, present, and future of the American Bison impacts us all more than we probably realize.
Mark your calendar for the Dakota Bison Symposium, an event that will educate and inform attendees on the American Bison through presentations, conversations, film, art, tours, exhibits, music, dancing, and culinary art. Bismarck State College will host this event September 16–18, 2021 in Bismarck, North Dakota.
This event is the fifth in a series of symposia led by the college to promote the arts, humanities, and history through major topics that shape our culture and heritage as a state and nation, promote mutual respect for diverse beliefs, and broaden our understanding of humanity.
Registration fees are listed below and registration is open!
September 16 only—$65 (includes light breakfast, lunch & evening reception)
September 17 only—$45 (includes bus transportation, lunch, snacks, Bison dinner)
September 16-17—$99
September 18 only—$35 (includes lunch; transportation not provided)
September 16, 17, 18—$125
Save 10% on registration with your OLLI @ BSC membership!
bismarckstate.edu/OLLI
Thursday, September 16, 2021
7:00 am Onsite check-in; Registration
National Energy Center of Excellence, BSC
7:45 am Welcome, Dr. Doug Jensen,
Bismarck State College President
8:00 am Bison: From Whence They Come
John Eagle Sr., Standing Rock Sioux Tribe
8:45 am Why Does the Bison Matter?
Dan Flores, Author, A. B. Hammond
Professor Emeritus of the History of the American West at the University of Montana-Missoula
9:30 am Break/Book Signing
10:00 am The Bison Arrival to North America
Dr. Duane Froese, University of Alberta
10:45 am Cultural and Historical Significance of the American Bison
Dakota Goodhouse, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, United Tribes Technical College
11:30 am Lunch & Field Trip Synopsis
Francie Berg, author
Cody Two Bears, Indigenous Energy
12:45 pm Destruction of the Bison
Andrew C. Isenberg, University of Kansas
1:30 pm Return of the Bison: A Panel Discussion
Arnell D. Abold, Oglala Lakota (Sioux), Executive Director for the InterTribal Buffalo Council
Jason Baldes, Eastern Shoshone, Wind River native
Corissa Busse, The Nature Conservancy
Brendan Moynahan, National Park Service/Dept. of Interior’s Bison Working Group
3:00 pm Break/Book Signing
3:30 pm Bison and Healthy Indian Communities:, A Panel Discussion
Scott J. Davis, Executive Director of Indian Affairs, Sanford Health – Moderator
Donald Warne, Indians Into Medicine (INMED) & Public Health Programs at UND
Melissa Sobolik, President, Great Plains Food Bank
Chairman Mike Faith, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe
Lorraine Davis, President and CEO, Native American Development Center
6:30 pm Reception and Dance by Kevin Locke
North Dakota Heritage Center
7:00 pm Film Viewing Bring Them Home (Documentary)
Iniskim (fiction film) Produced by Daniel Glick
Friday, September 17, 2021 (Day Trip)
7:15 am Check-in, Bus Assignments
7: 45 am Buses Depart BSC
9:00 am Kokomo Sculpture Gallery, Petrified Park (Lemmon, SD)
Shadehill Buffalo Jump
11:45 am Lunch, Shadehill Recreation Area
1:45 pm Johnson Buffalo Herd, Jim Strand Herdsman
Hiddenwood Hunt Historic Site
4:30 pm Last Stand – Sitting Bull Hunt
5:30 pm Buffalo Dinner, Dakota Buttes Museum (Hettinger, ND)
7:30 pm Depart for BSC/Bismarck
Saturday, September 18, 2021
Events scheduled for United Tribes Technical College
8:30 am Check-in
9:00 am Opening Prayer
9:15 am Significance of the Buffalo for Ocethi Sakowin & Local Nations
10:00 am Indigenous Singing & Dance Performance
10:15 am Dignitaries Speak –
Political leaders, representatives from multiple tribal nations & other dignitaries
10:30 am Indigenous Singing & Dance Performance
12:00 pm Buffalo Lunch – prepared in traditional Northern Plains Indigenous way
Local Indigenous art vendors onsite from 10 am – 1 pm
**To Register for Bismarck State College Dakota Bison Symposium,
Francie M. Berg is a teacher, historian and author of 17 books, with strong homestead and ranching roots in the Old West. Born at home in the Missouri River Breaks, she grew up on a Montana ranch and lives in Hettinger, North Dakota, within a few miles of her grandparents’ South Dakota homestead and the center of a fascinating buffalo heritage of which she writes in Buffalo Trails in the Dakota Buttes and its companion book Buffalo Heartbeats Across the Plains.
For over 35 years she has been researching buffalo, read most all the books on the subject, visited many public, commercial and tribal herds, talked and visited with bison ranchers, climbed some of the most famous buffalo jumps in the Rocky Mountains, US and Canada, and wrote three books about buffalo. Her other books on western history include: Montana Stirrups, Sage & Shenanigans, North Dakota Land of Changing Seasons, South Dakota Land of Shining Gold, Wyoming Land of Echoing Canyons and Ethnic Heritage in North Dakota.
Francie Berg has worked as a county extension agent, and taught high school, college and adult education. A licensed nutritionist and graduate of Montana State University in Bozeman, she has a master’s degree in Family Social Studies and Anthropology from the University of Minnesota.
Books on Buffalo include: Buffalo Heartbeats Across the Plains, winner of three national awards, Buffalo Trails in the Dakota Buttes, a Self-Guided Tour, and The Last Great Buffalo Hunts: Traditional Hunts in 1880-1883 by Teton Lakota (back ordered).
————————————————————————————————-
Dr. Duane Froese is Canada Research Chair in Northern Environmental Change at the University of Alberta, and has been working on the fossil record of Ice Age mammals in Northern Canada and Alaska for the last 25 years. His research group focuses on environmental changes in the North, and undrstanding the ecosystems that supported the diverse grazing megafauna of Ice Age North America.
————————————————————————————————-
Dan Flores: A native of Louisiana and currently a resident of Santa Fe, New Mexico, he has written for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, and numerous magazines. He is the author of ten books, most recently American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains, the Stubbendieck Distinguished Book Prize winner in 2017, and Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History, which is a New York Times Bestseller, winner of the Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award, and a 2017 Finalist for PEN America’s E. O. Wilson Prize in Literary Science Writing. His current project, “Wild New World: America’s Animals Confront Humanity” is a big history of the human/wild animal story and will be published by W. W. Norton in 2022.
————————————————————————————————-
Dakota Wind Goodhouse is an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. Goodhouse has a B.A. in Theology and a M.A. in History. He is a PhD candidate at NDSU in History. Goodhouse teaches U.S. History and Native American Studies at United Tribes Technical College. He is the editor and writer of “The First Scout,” a blog about the history and culture of the Northern Plains.
————————————————————————————————-
Daniel Glick is an Emmy-winning director, producer, writer, cinematographer and editor who has worked on projects of all types including documentaries, narrative films, comedies, commercials and web series.
These projects have garnered more than a dozen awards and span a range of topics that Daniel is passionate about: social justice, indigenous rights, wildlife, the arts, science, conservation, and prison reform.
His diverse range of clients have included The Wilderness Society, LL Bean, FICO, Wildlife Conservation Society, National Parks Conservation Association, Madame Tussauds Wax Museum and Colliers International.
————————————————————————————————-
Andrew Isenberg is the Hall Distinguished Professor of American History at the University of Kansas. He is the author, co-author, or editor of seven books, including The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920 (2000; second edition, 2020); Mining California: An Ecological History (2005); and Wyatt Earp: A Vigilante Life (2013).
From his book The Destruction of the Bison, “The interaction between Indians and Euroamericans in the western plains created bison hunters on both sides of the encounter: notably equestrian Indian nomads and Euroamerican hide hunters. By the second half of the nineteenth century… Indians and Euroamericans were engaged in a destructive battle over control of resources in the plains.”
————————————————————————————————-
The Dakota Bison Symposium will draw a diverse audience from across the state and region September 16-18, 2021, to experience and learn about the American Bison through presentations, panel discussions, film, art, tours, exhibits, music, dancing, and culinary arts. This three-day event is the fifth in a series of symposia led by the BSC to promote the arts, humanities, and history through major topics that shape our culture and heritage as a state and nation, promote mutual respect for diverse beliefs and broaden our understanding of humanity.
Presentations will be chronological, beginning with ancient origins of the bison and arrival to North America; the cultural and historical significance of the bison to Native American peoples and settlers; the exploitation and destruction of the bison; and modern efforts to re-introduce and conserve bison herds from both a Native American and farming/ranching perspective, as well as health benefits of the return of the bison to Native American communities.
The Dakota Bison Symposium—September 16-18, 2021. A symposium to explore the rich history of the bison, see its impact on where we are today and learn about the opportunities that are waiting in the near future. We hope you can join us—registration is open!
A 3-day event to discuss the history, near destruction and remarkable revitalization of the Bison, and how it has played a staring role in living traditions and art from ancient to modern times.
Adams County Prepares for BSC Bison Symposium Tour
Viewing hint: To enlarge type simply hold down your Control key and roll the wheel on the mouse.
Adams County Record, July 15, 2021 by Frank Turner, editor, with permission
Thank you to our confirmed Sponsors & Partners!
Bismarck State College has been approved for a $30,000 Grants for Arts Projects award to support the college’s 2021 Dakota Bison Symposium. This project is among the more than 1,100 projects across America totaling nearly $27 million that were selected during this second round of Grants for Arts Projects fiscal year 2021 funding.
As the country and the arts sector begin to imagine returning to a post-pandemic world, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is proud to announce funding that will help arts organizations such as Bismarck State College reengage fully with partners and audiences,” said NEA Acting Chairman Ann Eilers. “Although the arts have sustained many during the pandemic, the chance to gather with one another and share arts experiences is its own necessity and pleasure.”
Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is proud to announce funding that will help arts organizations such as Bismarck State College reengage fully with partners and audiences,” said NEA Acting Chairman Ann Eilers. “Although the arts have sustained many during the pandemic, the chance to gather with one another and share arts experiences is its own necessity and pleasure.”
The Dakota Bison Symposium will be an event that brings a diverse audience from across the state and region to experience and learn about the American Bison through presentations, panel discussions, film, art, tours, exhibits, music, dancing, and culinary arts. This three-day event is planned for September 16-18, 2021 in Bismarck, North Dakota. This event is the fifth in a series of symposia led by the college to promote the arts, humanities and history through major topics that shape our culture and heritage as a state and nation, promote mutual respect for diverse beliefs, and broaden our understanding of humanity.
“This is an exciting and enriching event that we are proud to be hosting on our campus with a great number of partners and stakeholders,” said BSC President Doug Jensen. “We look forward to working with the Arts Endowment on this endeavor.”
Agenda details and registration for the event are available online at bismarckstate.edu/dakotabisonsymposium
For more information on the projects included in the Arts Endowment grant announcement, visit arts.gov/news.
Sponsors
Sponsorship is a great opportunity to become involved in the Dakota Bison Symposium,
the 5th Symposia offered by Bismarck State College. Sponsor level details below:
Gold sponsor $5,000
- Full color 1/4 page ad in the Symposium program book.
- Social media recognition.
- Company logo included on rolling screen between speakers.
- Verbal name recognition during program.
- Logo recognition on Sponsorship signage during Symposium.
- Symposium sessions will be streamed to schools, and the stream will feature Gold company logos.
- Logo recognition on website linked to your company’s homepage.
- Priority seating at Symposium for complimentary registrations.
- Four complimentary registrations to the full symposium, including Thursday evening speakers and Friday/Saturday tours.
- Name tags will indicate Sponsorship level.
Silver Sponsor $2,500
- Company name listed in program book.
- Verbal name recognition during program.
- Social media recognition.
- Company name recognition included on rolling screen between speakers.
- Company name recognition on Sponsorship signage during Symposium.
- Recognition on website linked to your company’s homepage.
- Priority seating at Symposium for complimentary registrations.
- Four complimentary registrations to the full Symposium, including Thursday evening speakers and Friday/Saturday tours.
- Name tags at Symposium will indicate Sponsorship.
Supporting Sponsor $1,000
- Program book listing with company name and logo.
- Company logo included on rolling screen between speakers.
- Logo recognition on Sponsorship signage during Symposium.
- Logo recognition on website linked to your company’s homepage.
- Two complimentary registrations to the full Symposium, including Thursday evening speakers and Friday/Saturday tours.
- Nametags at Symposium will indicate sponsorship.
Community Sponsor $500
- Program book listing with company name and logo.
- Company logo included on rolling screen between speakers.
- Logo recognition on Sponsorship signage during Symposium.
- Logo recognition on website linked to your company’s homepage.
- One complimentary registration to the Thursday’s Symposium events.
Name tags at Symposium will indicate sponsorship.
Francie M Berg
Author of the Buffalo Tales &Trails blog
