Former Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation President Raphael Bear will share the history of his tribe and plans for future development at the River of Time Museum dinner, Wednesday, Nov. 15.

Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation is home to 600 community members on a 40-square mile reservation bordering the east side of Fountain Hills. The area represents a small portion of the ancestral territory of the once nomadic Yavapai people, who hunted and gathered food in a vast area of Arizona’s desert lowlands and mountainous Mogollon Rim country.

The dinner will begin at 6 p.m. in the Community Center with beer and wine, followed by dinner catered by Phil’s Filling Station.

The museum’s annual membership meeting will be held before Bear’s presentation. Incumbents seeking another and final term on the board are Boe James, William Myhr and Jane Wingert.

Five new candidates are recommended for their first three-year term. They are Sharon Brodhun, Sharon Hunter, Fran Intervallo, Marianne Pinter and Monique Reynolds.

Not seeking re-election are Alan Cruikshank, Anne Wicklund and Kit Wyper.

Tickets are $20 for museum members and $25 for non-members. Tickets are available in the museum office at 480-837-2612 or on the museum’s website at rotmuseum.org.