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Show SUSC Anthropologist presents Coast Seminar . n.. " families," he said. During the seminar, Turner discussed ethnology, cultural change and contemporary con-temporary cultural patterns of Indians in California, Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico, the areas represented in Region IX. He also discussed the impact of federal policies on Indian decision making. Further discussion in tne November 14-16 San Francisco seminar centered around housing patterns and traditional architecture of Indians in California and the Southwest. The seminar closed with a series of case studies. Constance Metherell, a former SUSC student now living in the San Francisco area, assisted Turner as ancillary ethnologist. Southern Utah State College anthropologist Allen C. Turner recently presented a three-day seminar on Indian Housing and Community Development Develop-ment for the U.S. Department Depart-ment of Housing and Urban Development, Region IX Office of Indian Programs, San Francisco. Turner, Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences, has been working for the past four years in a community development program with the Kaibab-Paiute Indians. At the invitation of the HUD Office, Turner developed the seminar to help the government understand un-derstand the needs of client communities and to put federal programming into a wider anthroplogical context. con-text. "Hopefully, seminars such as this will assist the Indian communities and federal agencies in meeting the needs more effectively and efficiently and without inadvertently generating new problems for Indian ALLEN CTURNER |