Metal Road Navajo Documentary Film Tour – Flagstaff

Northern Arizona University Campus - Native American Community Center S. Knoles Dr., Flagstaff, AZ, United States

Metal Road (30 min.) Directed by Sarah Del Seronde For decades, thousands of Navajos worked the railroads maintaining the trans-continuental network. Metal Road enters the world of Navajo families amid history of railroad work thorugh the lens of one workday on the 9001 Heavy Steel Gang. Free and open to all! This program is supported […]

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84th Annual Hopi Festival of Arts & Culture – Flagstaff

Museum of Northern Arizona 3101 North Fort Valley Road, Flagstaff, AZ, United States

"A Fourth of July tradition since the 1930s, the Hopi Festival of Arts & Culture features 90 award-winning artists and presenters from the Hopi villages in northern Arizona. Buy traditional and contemporary art and enjoy Heritage Insights lectures, artist demonstrations, and performances by the Hopi Sinom Dancers, Tyrone & The Ledge, Tha 'Yoties, and flutist […]

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68th Annual Navajo Festival of Arts & Culture – Flagstaff

Museum of Northern Arizona 3101 North Fort Valley Road, Flagstaff, AZ, United States

Museum of Northern Arizona Center – Flagstaff, AZ Heritage Insights Series: Zuni, Hopi & Navajo Festivals The Museum of Northern Arizona (MNA) Heritage Insights series at the 27th Annual Zuni, 84th Annual Hopi, and 68th Annual Navajo Festivals of Arts & Culture strengthens MNA’s institutional initiative of celebrating the cultural diversity of the Colorado Plateau […]

Mining Uranium Memories Exhibit Opening Day – Flagstaff

Coconino Center for the Arts 2300 N. Fort Valley Road, Flagstaff, AZ, United States

Project Name: Mining Uranium Memories from Northern Arizona University – Sustainable Communities Program Dates: August 15 through October 28 Based on oral history interviews and documentary research, this exhibit created by the NAU Sustainable Communities program explores the tangled legacy of uranium mining and use in northern Arizona. It complements Hope and Trauma in a Poisoned […]

Women on the Mother Road in Arizona: Route 66 – Flagstaff

Museum of Northern Arizona 3101 North Fort Valley Road, Flagstaff, AZ, United States

Screening and Discussion of Oral Histories and Documentary Film Called the “Mother Road” by author John Steinbeck, U.S. Route 66 stretches some 2,400 miles from Los Angeles to Chicago, symbolic of the mobility available to Americans, and an iconic highway for many travelers. Yet much of the historical perspective of the highway that passes through […]

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Women on the Mother Road in Arizona: Route 66 – Kingman

Mohave Museum of History and Arts 400 W. Beale St., Kingman, AZ, United States

Screening and Discussion of Oral Histories and Documentary Film Called the “Mother Road” by author John Steinbeck, U.S. Route 66 stretches some 2,400 miles from Los Angeles to Chicago, symbolic of the mobility available to Americans, and an iconic highway for many travelers. Yet much of the historical perspective of the highway that passes through […]

Metal Road Film Screening – Flagstaff

Museum of Northern Arizona 3101 North Fort Valley Road, Flagstaff, AZ, United States

For decades, thousands of Navajos worked the railroads maintaining the trans-continental network. Metal Road enters the world of Navajo families amid the history of railroad work through the lens of one workday on the 9001 Heavy Steel Gang.The Metal Road documentary project was supported by several Project Grant awards. Filmmaker and Director Sarah del Seronde shared, “I wanted to […]

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Riders on the Orphan Train: The Arizona Story – Prescott Valley

Prescott Valley Public Library 7401 E Skoog Blvd, Prescott Valley, AZ, United States

“The Orphan Trains – Arizona’s Hidden History” will be presented at six libraries: Winslow, Prescott, Douglas, Fountain Hills, Wilcox and Prescott Valley. The program is designed to inform, entertain, and engage audiences of all ages and to tell the story of about this little-known chapter of the largest child migration in American and Arizona history […]

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Riders on the Orphan Train: The Arizona Story – Winslow

Winslow Visitor Center/Hubbell Trading Post 523 W 2nd St, Winslow, AZ, United States

“The Orphan Trains – Arizona’s Hidden History” will be presented at six libraries: Winslow, Prescott, Douglas, Fountain Hills, Wilcox and Prescott Valley. The program is designed to inform, entertain, and engage audiences of all ages and to tell the story of about this little-known chapter of the largest child migration in American and Arizona history […]

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FRANK Talks: Information Warfare as the New Battlespace – Eagar

Round Valley Public Library 179 South Main Street, Eagar, AZ, United States

Weaponized Narrative: Information Warfare as the New Battlespace Dr. Braden Allenby, Arizona State University, President’s Professor of Civil, Environmental, and Sustainable Engineering, and Lincoln Professor of Engineering and Ethics Weaponized narrative is the latest term for information warfare, focusing specifically on the role of new media in shaping opinion. Weaponized narratives attack the shared beliefs and […]

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