Saving the Great American West:  The Story of George Bird Grinnell

Pima Community College Downtown Campus, Amethyst Room 1255 N. Stone Ave, Tucson, AZ, United States

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 hide-hunters, and the disengaged U.S. Congress than George Bird Grinnell, the “Father of American Conservation.”  Grinnell […]

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Arizona Humanities Awards

Cutler-Plotkin Jewish Heritage Center 122 E Culver St., Phoenix, AZ, United States

Join us as we present the Arizona Humanities Awards! Enjoy appetizers, drinks and live music! Thursday, November 13 4:30 - 7:30pm Culter-Plotkin Jewish Heritage Center 122 E. Culver St. Phoenix, AZ 85004 $40 per person includes appetizers and one alcoholic beverage (non-alcoholic beverages complimentary) Click here to RSVP. Please RSVP by Friday, November 7

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INYAHOSKIE (The Stone Boy): A Lakota Legend

Esmond Station K-8 9400 S. Atterbury Wash Way, Vail, AZ, United States

In ancient times the lessons of life and guides to a moralistic life were taught via fables of ancestors and their adventures in a magical world fraught with monsters and heroes.  INYAHOSKIE is one of those heroes who sets out to explore the world and journeys to the Southwest where he encounters a rude and […]

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Teresa Urrea

Consulado de Mexico 135 W. Cardwell St., Nogales, AZ, United States

Meet Teresa Urrea, a curandera (spiritual healer) and reluctant political figure. She was born in Sinoloa, Mexico, in 1873 to a fourteen-year-old Tehueco Indian in the employ of Tomás Urrea, a wealthy hacendado (owner of a hacienda). When she was 16, she lapsed into a cataleptic state that lasted over three months. Upon awakening, Teresa […]

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“Dear Emma” with Todd Weber

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

Surrounded by cargo, Weber presents as John Wesley Powell writing a letter to his wife, Emma, the night before embarking on his 1869 journey of exploration into the "Great Unknown." Preparing to face the perils and the mysteries of the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon, he contemplates what may lie ahead, the colorful crewmembers […]

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Armed with Our Language, We Went to War:  The Navajo Code Talkers

Cochise College 901 N. Colombo , Sierra Vista, AZ, United States

During WWII a select group of young Navajo men enlisted in the Marines with a unique weapon.  Using the Navajo language, they devised a secret code that the enemy never deciphered.  For over 40 years a cloak of secrecy hung over the Code Talker’s service until the code was declassified and they were finally honored […]

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The Vulture Gold Mine

Lake Havasu Museum of History 320 London Bridge Road, Lake Havasu City, AZ, United States

Discovered in 1863 by Henry Wickenburg, the Vulture Gold Mine was the first big gold mine in Arizona.  The mine and its colorful cast of characters, along with the town of Wickenburg, were instrumental in stimulating considerable growth and development in Central Arizona. This presentation will share the multi-layered story of the gold mine, thus […]

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Written in Thread: Arizona Women’s History Preserved in Their Quilts

Dorothy Powell Senior Adult Center 405 E. 6th St., Casa Grande, AZ, United States

Join Stevenson as she traces Arizona history through women who recorded pieces of their lives in their needlework.  Beginning with 1860s Mexican women, through 1990s Hopi women, this presentation introduces women who pioneered Arizona through quilts they stitched. Some of the women featured are Atanacia Santa Cruz Hughes, Tucson; Viola Slaughter, Southeastern Arizona; Alice Gillette Haught, […]

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The Eagle and the Archaeologists: The Lindberghs’ 1929 Southwest Aerial Survey

Leisure World: Hopi Pima Room 908 South Power Road, Mesa, AZ, United States

Charles Lindbergh is best known for his famous 1927 flight across the Atlantic Ocean.  But few realize that Lindbergh and his wife, Anne, played a brief but important role in archaeology.  In 1929 they teamed up with noted archaeologist Alfred Kidder to conduct an unprecedented aerial photographic survey of Southwest prehistoric sites and geologic features […]

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Armed with Our Language, We Went to War:  The Navajo Code Talkers

Perry Branch Library 1965 E. Queen Creek Rd., Gilbert, AZ, United States

During WWII a select group of young Navajo men enlisted in the Marines with a unique weapon.  Using the Navajo language, they devised a secret code that the enemy never deciphered.  For over 40 years a cloak of secrecy hung over the Code Talker’s service until the code was declassified and they were finally honored […]

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