The second presentation in the “Getting to Know Our Tribal Partners Seminar Series” will be held Oct. 14 at 6 p.m. in the Memorial Union Meadow Lark room. The presentation will cover land-use methods among tribal peoples, considering the view that many current environmental problems are caused by adopting unsound land-use practices versus returning to a more traditional style of land use. The presentation outlines traditional native land-use practices in pre-contact times and the adaptation that became necessary after settling on particular land. This was especially difficult for hunting and gathering tribes such as the Lakota Nation of people who followed the bison.

James J. Garrett from the agriculture department at Ft. Berthold College in New Town, N.D., will be the presenter. He is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne River Lakota Tribe in South Dakota and grew up on a ranch along the Cheyenne River. After military service and several occupations, he earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Santa Barbara, master’s degree from Humboldt State University and doctorate in rangeland ecosystem science from Colorado State University.

A pre-seminar reception will be held in the NDSU Equity and Diversity Center located in the Alba Bales House, at 4:30 p.m. For more information, contact Bob Pieri, 1-8673 or robert.pieri@ndsu.edu.