WILLISTON – The Missouri-Yellowstone Confluence Interpretive Center near Williston will be holding engaging, family-friendly events during August.

Programs include:

– From Atlatls to Arrows: Early Peoples Hunting Strategies, Wednesdays and Fridays, 11 a.m.-noon and 3-4 p.m. Learn how the region’s earliest hunters crafted and used tools made from stone, wood and sinew at this interactive drop-in session. Test your aim with ancient weapons including the atlati, a spear-throwing tool, and the traditional bow and arrow.

– Throwback Thursdays: Frontier & Indigenous Games at the Confluence, Thursdays, 2 p.m., Discover the joy of historical play in this weekly drop-in program featuring a rotating lineup of games once played by Indigenous communities and frontier families.

– Where Rivers Meet: A Walk Through History & Nature, Saturdays, 10 a.m. This hourlong guided walk explores the post-glacial landscape of the confluence, highlighting native plants, wildlife, and river ecology while connecting those natural features to human stories, especially Indigenous use of the land, the Lewis and Clark Expedition and the development of nearby Fort Buford.

– Confluence Learning Lab: Medicine on the Frontier, Aug. 23, 2 p.m. Explore the strange, surprising and sometimes effective remedies used by soldiers, homesteaders and explorers such as Lewis and Clark.

The Missouri-Yellowstone Confluence Interpretive Center is part of Fort Buford State Historic Site, managed by the State Historical Society of North Dakota. Missouri-Yellowstone Confluence Interpretive Center and Fort Buford are open daily 9 a.m.-5 p.m., through Sept. 30.

Programs are free. Children must be accompanied by an adult.