Climate Conversations – Science Dance: Can Dance Move Us Toward Sustainability?
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Talking about the climate crisis and its impact on the planet and our communities is challenging. Is there a way to bring joy into the conversation? Can art and movement […]
Seeing the Desert with Gregory McNamee
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Most Arizonans are not originally from Arizona, and most come from places that are far greener and milder of climate than our desert. For many of us, it takes a […]
Dia de los Muertos Storytelling with Zarco Guerrero
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Dia de Los Muertos is a highly celebrated and significant holiday held throughout Mexico, Latin America, and the Southwest. It is a day when homage is paid with prayers, offerings […]
Rivers of Dreams: Songs and Stories of Arizona’s Waterways with Jay Cravath
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The Colorado, the Gila, the Salt, the Verde, the Hassayampa, the Santa Cruz: Arizona’s rivers were lush green ribbons of life flowing through a desert landscape. They became sustaining paths […]
Caretakers of the Land: A Story of Farming and Community in San Xavier with Jacelle Ramon-Sauberan
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Farming has always been the way of life for the Tohono O’odham community in San Xavier, located just south of Tucson. Their way of life depended on access to the […]
Arizona Water Use from Prehistory to the Present with Jim Turner
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This presentation covers humankind’s water use and food supply interactions with Arizona’s ecology from Clovis culture hunter-gatherers to prehistoric irrigation canals, contemporary Hopi and Tohono O’odham dry farming, and present-day […]
Archaeology’s Deep Time Perspective on Environment and Sustainability with Allen Dart
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The deep time perspective that archaeology, geology, and related disciplines provide about natural hazards, environmental change, and societal development is often ignored when societies today make decisions affecting social sustainability […]
Dia de los Muertos Storytelling with Zarco Guerrero
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Dia de Los Muertos is a highly celebrated and significant holiday held throughout Mexico, Latin America, and the Southwest. It is a day when homage is paid with prayers, offerings […]
Hiking into the Past: The Sierra Ancha Cliff Dwellings with John Mack
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This presentation examines the remarkable living structures built by the people who first lived in the canyons of the Sierra Ancha wilderness during the early Middle Ages. The architectural dwellings […]
Southwestern Rock Calendars and Ancient Time Pieces with Allen Dart
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Native Americans in the US Southwest developed sophisticated skills in astronomy and predicting the seasons, centuries before non-Indigenous peoples entered the region. In this presentation, archaeologist Allen Dart discusses archaeological […]