Modern life for American Indian women topic of talk

Marjorie June Williams-Waheneka, an American Indian educator, author and historian, will discuss "A Traditional Woman in a Contemporary World" at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 4, at Aurora University.

Williams-Waheneka will speak in the Schingoethe Center for Native American Cultures in Dunham Hall at 1400 Marseillaise Place, Aurora.

The public is welcome. Admission is free. The presentation is in conjunction with "Peoples of the Plateau," a current exhibit of 51 photos of American Indians taken by photographer Lee Moorhouse from 1898-1915.

On display until Jan. 3, the exhibit is part of a 30-month national tour containing photographs reproduced from the original glass plates.

The tour was developed and is managed by Smith Kramer Fine Art Services, Kansas City, Mo.

Williams-Waheneka is a member of the Confederated Umatilla Tribes of Eastern Oregon and living history coordinator at the Tamastslikt Cultural Institute near Pendleton, Ore. She will share some of the challenges of adhering to a traditional beliefs in a contemporary world from a woman's perspective.

Tamastslikt means "interpreter" in the language of the Cayuse, Palouse and Warm Springs tribes, which are closely related.

The Tamastslikt Institute is a museum and research institute on the Umatilla Indian Reservation near Pendleton.

The only American Indian museum along the Oregon Trail, Tamastslikt is dedicated to the culture of the Cayuse, Umatilla, and Walla Walla tribes of Native Americans.