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SUMMARY:The Antiquity of Irrigation in the Southwest
DESCRIPTION:Before AD 1500\, Native American cultures took advantage of southern Arizona’s long growing season and tackled its challenge of limited precipitation by developing the earliest and most extensive irrigation works in all of North America. Agriculture was introduced to Arizona more than 4\,000 years before present\, and irrigation systems were developed in our state at least 3\,500 years ago – several hundred years before irrigation was established in ancient Mexico. This presentation by archaeologist Allen Dart provides an overview of ancient irrigation systems in the southern Southwest and discusses irrigation’s implications for understanding social complexity. \nAllen Dart is a registered Professional Archaeologist who has worked in Arizona and New Mexico since 1975 and has been an Arizona Humanities speaker since 1997. He is the former executive director of Tucson’s nonprofit Old Pueblo Archaeology Center\, which he founded in 1993 to provide educational and scientific programs in archaeology\, history\, and cultures. Al has received the Arizona Governor’s Archaeology Advisory Commission Award in Public Archaeology\, the Arizona Archaeological Society’s Professional Archaeologist of the Year Award\, and the Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society’s Victor R. Stoner Award for his efforts to bring archaeology and history to the public.
URL:https://azhumanities.org/event/the-antiquity-of-irrigation-in-the-southwest-4/
LOCATION:Red Rock State Park – AZ State Parks\, 4050 Red Rock Loop Road\, Sedona\, AZ\, 86336\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Navajo Long Walk (1863 through 1868): Through the Eyes of Navajo Women
DESCRIPTION:The Navajo people of old were forced to leave their homes and walk over 450 miles to Fort Sumner in eastern New Mexico where they were imprisoned on a small reservation. For four long years the Navajo people faced hunger\, loneliness\, disorientation\, illnesses\, severe environmental conditions\, and hopelessness. Navajo women were forced to become warriors. It was the nurturing role\, words and actions of women that spared the lives of the ones who survived. Before their release from prisoner of war status in 1968\, it was the demands of the women that led the Navajo people back to their original lands in northeastern Arizona and northwestern New Mexico. The Long Walk has been collected in historical literature by non-Navajo authors. Absent from the literature is the Navajo perspective. The audience will hear the Navajo female elders’ version of the Long Walk in this presentation. \nDr. Evangeline Parsons Yazzie is a Navajo woman\, originally from the community of Hardrock on the Navajo Reservation. She is a Professor Emerita of Navajo at Northern Arizona University (NAU). She obtained a Masters of Arts degree in Bilingual Multicultural Education (NAU) and a Doctorate degree in Education (NAU). Evangeline retired from NAU after 24 years of teaching. Evangeline is a novelist\, the author of four novels in Navajo and English which are based upon the Navajo Long Walk (1864 through 1868). She is an author of a popular Navajo language textbook\, and the author of an award-winning bilingual children’s book.
URL:https://azhumanities.org/event/the-navajo-long-walk-1863-through-1868-through-the-eyes-of-navajo-women/
LOCATION:Red Rock State Park – AZ State Parks\, 4050 Red Rock Loop Road\, Sedona\, AZ\, 86336\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20180204T140000
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SUMMARY:Set in Stone but Not in Meaning: Southwestern Indian Rock Art - Sedona
DESCRIPTION:Ancient Indian pictographs (rock paintings) and petroglyphs (symbols carved or pecked on rocks) are claimed by some to be forms of writing for which meanings are known. However\, are such claims supported by archaeology or by Native Americans themselves? Mr. Dart illustrates southwestern petroglyphs and pictographs\, and discusses how even the same rock art symbol may be interpreted differently from popular\, scientific\, and modern Native American perspectives. \nRegistered Professional Archaeologist Allen Dart has worked in Arizona and New Mexico since 1975. He is a state cultural resource specialist/archaeologist for the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service and volunteer director of Tucson’s Old Pueblo Archaeology Center nonprofit organization\, which he founded in 1993 to provide educational and scientific programs in archaeology\, history\, and cultures. Al has received the Arizona Governor’s Award in Public Archaeology\, the Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society’s Victor R. Stoner Award\, and the Arizona Archaeological Society’s Professional Archaeologist of the Year Award for his efforts to bring archaeology and history to the public.
URL:https://azhumanities.org/event/set-in-stone-but-not-in-meaning-southwestern-indian-rock-art-sedona/
LOCATION:Red Rock State Park – AZ State Parks\, 4050 Red Rock Loop Road\, Sedona\, AZ\, 86336\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20171203T140000
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SUMMARY: Armed with Our Language\, We Went to War:  The Navajo Code Talkers - Sedona
DESCRIPTION: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 for their military contributions in the South Pacific by Presidents Reagan\, Bush\, and the Navajo Nation. The Code Talkers’ cultural background\, how the code was devised and used\, photos\, and how Navajo spiritual beliefs were used to treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) form this presentation. \nLaura Tohe is Diné/Navajo. She is Sleepy Rock clan born for the Bitter Water clan. A librettist and an award-winning poet\, she has written 3 books of poetry\, edited a book of Native American Women writing\, and the oral history book\, Code Talker Stories. Her commissioned libretto\, Enemy Slayer\, A Navajo Oratorio made its world premiere in 2008 and was performed by The Phoenix Symphony.  She is Professor with Distinction in Indigenous Literature at Arizona State University and is the Poet Laureate of the Navajo Nation for 2015-2019.
URL:https://azhumanities.org/event/armed-with-our-language-we-went-to-war-the-navajo-code-talkers-12/
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SUMMARY:Plants\, Inspiring the People: Reflections on Hualapai Ethnobotanyof the Grand Canyon
DESCRIPTION:Where lies the cure to diabetes? “Ask the prickly pear\, or the mesquite bean pod…maybe they will tell you.” This is the answer you may hear from elder instructors of the Hualapai Ethnobotany Youth Project. The ethnobotanical story of the Hualapai Tribe  begins with the plant knowledge the people have inherited from their great grandparents who lived entirely off the land. Hualapai grandchildren  live in a completely different modern world. A world of cell phones\, text messages\, and ipods.  Information presented will share about the project examining the crucial role plant resource acquisition has played in Hualapai culture; knowledge that has been fine tuned and perfected over millennia. \nCarrie Cannon is a member of the Kiowa tribe of Oklahoma and is also of Oglala Lakota descent. She has a B.S. in Wildlife Biology\, and an M.S. in Resource Management. She began working for the Hualapai Tribe of Peach Springs\, Arizona in 2005 where she began the creation of an intergenerational ethnobotany program for the Hualapai community.  She is currently employed as an Ethnobotanist for the Hualapai Department of Cultural Resources. She administers a number of projects promoting the intergenerational teaching of Hualapai ethnobotanical knowledge working towards preservation and revitalization to ensure tribal ethnobotanical knowledge persists as a living practice and tradition.
URL:https://azhumanities.org/event/plants-inspiring-the-people-reflections-on-hualapai-ethnobotanyof-the-grand-canyon-3/
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