The program series introduces festival visitors to the history, culture, visual arts, heritage preservation, and contemporary cultural identity of the Hopi. The festival includes lectures, film screenings, art-making demonstrations, and more. Learn more: https://musnaz.org/heritage/hopi-festival/ This project is supported by a grant from Arizona Humanities.
Spunky 9-year-old Ana is faced with a very big decision. On the one hand, as her alter-ego, Barrio Grrrl, with her invisible sidekick, Amazing Voice, she's pretty busy preserving justice in the barrio and protecting her neighborhood. On the other hand, in the world where Ana lives with her abuelo and misses her mom who […]
Part of Native American Heritage Month, supported by an Arizona Humanities grant. 2018 Native American Heritage Month November 2, 6pm: Lecture on Yavapai-Apache forced march Jane Russell-Winiecki presents the history of the forced removal in 1875 of 1,500 Yavapai and Apache from the Rio Verde Indian Reserve to San Carlos. November 11, 2pm: Öngtupqa Hopi […]
In recent years, the return of human remains and sacred objects has transformed museums and Native American communities. Dr. Colwell describes how this repatriation unfolded and why it matters by following the trail of a scalp taken in the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre. He traces the path as the scalp was removed and transformed into […]
2018 Native American Heritage Month - Supported by an Arizona Humanities Grant November 2, 6pm: Lecture on Yavapai-Apache forced march Jane Russell-Winiecki presents the history of the forced removal in 1875 of 1,500 Yavapai and Apache from the Rio Verde Indian Reserve to San Carlos. November 11, 2pm: Öngtupqa Hopi flute performance Come hear one […]
2018 Native American Heritage Month - Supported by an Arizona Humanities Grant November 2, 6pm: Lecture on Yavapai-Apache forced march Jane Russell-Winiecki presents the history of the forced removal in 1875 of 1,500 Yavapai and Apache from the Rio Verde Indian Reserve to San Carlos. November 11, 2pm: Öngtupqa Hopi flute performance Come hear one […]
Weeks after Pearl Harbor the War Department announced construction of a massive ammunition storage depot ten miles west of Flagstaff along U.S. Highway 66 at Bellemont. Flagstaff’s population jumped from five to 20 thousand in a spasm of boom town upheaval. Several thousand Navajo and Hopi construction workers labored at the struggling new depot – […]
Museums and Indigenous communities have long had contentious interactions and relationships. In this talk, Jaclyn Roessel, Founder and Present of Grownup Navajo, will examine some of the tensions present within the museum field and discuss how, with further dedication to decolonized practices, museums can help facilitate the assertion of Indigenous community's cultural rights. Jaclyn Roessel […]
This presentation will explore the US Army’s experiment with using camel from the Middle East to make it more mobile in the newly acquired Southwest. In order to teach the soldiers about camels, a local from the Middle East, who was called Hi Jolly, was shipped over with the camels. Even though Secretary of War […]
Ancient Indian pictographs (rock paintings) and petroglyphs (symbols carved or pecked on rocks) are claimed by some to be forms of writing for which meanings are known. However, are such claims supported by archaeology or by Native Americans themselves? Mr. Dart illustrates southwestern petroglyphs and pictographs, and discusses how even the same rock art symbol […]
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