Part of the Fleet of Foot: Indigenous Running and Games Project & Exhibition Public talk and reception by Humanities Scholar Will Russell. For questions, please contact (520) 383-0201. This program is made possible in part by a grant from Arizona Humanities.
Son Jarocho is a participatory music and dance practice native to the state of Veracruz, Mexico that blends Indigenous Mexican, African, and Spanish elements. Son Jarocho has nurtured a cultural revival movement in both Mexico and throughout the U.S. through its fusion of melodies, phrasings, and rhythms. April 1st - 6:30pm - Concert and Discussion […]
Part of the Fleet of Foot: Indigenous Running and Games Project & Exhibition Ancient Race Tracks of Arizona public talk and reception by Humanities Scholar Will Russell. For questions, please contact (520) 586-3666. This program is made possible in part by a grant from Arizona Humanities.
This PowerPoint program explores the lives of 5 artists whose talents personify the beauty of the early western frontier. Hopi potter Nampeyo shaped clay vessels with an intricacy seldom duplicated today. Writer Sharlot Hall described images of Arizona’s past and preserved our history. Author Martha Summerhayes wrote of her adventures following her husband from one […]
The great West that George Bird Grinnell first encountered in 1870 as a 21-year old man was shortly to disappear before his eyes. Nobody was quicker to sense the desecration or was more eloquent in crusading against the poachers, the hidehunters, and the disengaged U.S. Congress than George Bird Grinnell, the “Father of American Conservation.” Grinnell […]
Son Jarocho is a participatory music and dance practice native to the state of Veracruz, Mexico that blends Indigenous Mexican, African, and Spanish elements. Son Jarocho has nurtured a cultural revival movement in both Mexico and throughout the U.S. through its fusion of melodies, phrasings, and rhythms. April 1st - 6:30pm - Concert and Discussion […]
In 1896 in a tiny Arizona town, Annie Box Neal presided over her luxury hotel and her elite guests from Europe, Asia, and America. It was a list that included Italian Countesses, Russian Princes, Ambassadors, and the wealthy. Annie treated them all the same and gave them a good taste of western hospitality. In some […]
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s 1942 WWII Executive Order 9066 forced the removal of nearly 125,000 Japanese-American citizens from the west coast, incarcerating them in ten remote internment camps in seven states: Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Idaho, Utah, and Wyoming. Government photographers Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, and Ansel Adams documented the internment, and artists Toyo Miyatake, […]
On April 5, 2016, Maren Hopkins (Anthropological Research LLC) will present “Collaborative Research with Native Communities.” From Maren: My work as an ethnographer and archaeologist focuses on the relationship between Native American traditional cultural beliefs and practices and places on the landscape. This work is accomplished through community based participatory research with tribal members, wherein […]
The great West that George Bird Grinnell first encountered in 1870 as a 21-year old man was shortly to disappear before his eyes. Nobody was quicker to sense the desecration or was more eloquent in crusading against the poachers, the hidehunters, and the disengaged U.S. Congress than George Bird Grinnell, the “Father of American Conservation.” Grinnell […]
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