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328 N McLane Rd
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Southwestern Rock Calendars and Ancient Time Pieces with Al Dart

Payson Public Library 328 N McLane Rd, Payson, AZ, United States

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 and ethnographic evidence of ancient astronomical and calendrical reckoning practices seen in petroglyphs, architecture, and settlement layouts in Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah, and […]

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

Payson Public Library 328 N McLane Rd, Payson, 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 […]

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Life on the Lazy B as Lived by an American Cowboy and Rancher – Payson

Payson Public Library 328 N McLane Rd, Payson, AZ, United States

In 1880, Alan Day’s grandfather homesteaded the Lazy B ranch.  This dusty dry tract of land produced a Supreme Court Justice, a lauded Arizona state senator, and a career rancher, cowboy, and land conservationist. Alan explores the ranching and cowboying life from the chuck wagon years of his childhood, through his adult years of increasing […]

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Boarded Up: Social and Historical Interpretations of the American Indian Boarding School Era

Payson Public Library 328 N McLane Rd, Payson, AZ, United States

This presentation will impart a social interpretation of how life among Indian Nations began to change due to the plight American Indian people were forced into in the name of education.  American Indians are the only ethnic group in the U.S. who were subjected to forced education by the federal government for generations.  Children were […]

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