Native Voices 
Southwest Seminars Presents
Native Voices 2008

Monday Evenings at 6 p.m. at Hotel Santa Fe
Offered as a Benefit For The American Indian College Fund
A Public Program Graciously Assisted by Hotel Santa Fe, a Picuris Pueblo Enterprise

August 18	Kevin Gover, J.D. (Pawnee) 
		Director, Smithsonian Institution National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI)
		Former Assistant Secretary of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Washington, D.C. 		Formerly Attorney at Law, Steptoe and Johnson; 
                        Former Professor of Law, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University 	
		The National Museum of the American Indian and American Mythology
	
August 25	Suzan Shown Harjo (Hodulgee Muscogee/S. Cheyenne)
		Writer, poet, activist, policy analyst, and legislative advocate
		Founder, The Morning Star Institute, and Founding Trustee,
		Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian
		Visions, Dreams and Knowing What Happened Yesterday

September 1	Gerald Vizenor (Anishinaabe-White Earth Reservation) 
		Professor of American Studies, University of New Mexico; 
		Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley; and Author:
		Fugitive Poses: Native American Indian Scenes of Absence and Presence;
		Manifest Manners: Postindian Warriors of Survivance; The People Named the Chippewa:
                        Narrative Histories; Touchwood: A Collection of Ojibway Prose 
		Native American Survivance
			
September 8	Jonathon Batkin 
		Director, Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian;
		Former Director, Southwest Museum, Los Angeles and Author 
		Fine Pottery of the Pueblos and The Native American Curio Trade in New Mexico
		‘Come See Our Indian Silversmith at Work’
	 	
September 15	Dr. Beverly Singer (Santa Clara Pueblo/Dine’) 
		Associate Professor of Anthropology and Native American Studies
		and Regent’s Lecturer, University of New Mexico 
		Producer, Director, Film Editor, The Answers Lie Within: The Institute of American 		Indian Arts in Southern Africa’ and Associate Producer, Who We Are
		(Smithsonian Institution National Museum of the American Indian)
		Connecting Research: Native Peoples and Filmmaking
		
September 22	Miguel Gandert 
		Photographer and Associate Professor
		Department of Communications and Journalism, University of New Mexico
		Photographer, Nuevo Profundo: Rituals of an Indo-Hispano Homeland; and 
		Hermanitos Comanchitos: Indo-Hispano Rituals of Captivity and Redemption, 
		(Winner, 2004 Chicago Folklore Prize, American Folklore Society and Border 
		Regional Library Association Book Award)
		Reading History Through Photography: Inter-Cultural Globalism and Bolivian Indians

September 29	Phillip Tuwaletstiwa (Hopi)
		History of Oraivi, Third Mesa, Hopi 

October 6	Dr. Bruce Bernstein
		Executive Director, Southwestern Association for Indian Arts (SWAIA)
		Writing a Puebloan Art History: Maria & Julian Martinez and the 					Development of Pueblo Art Pottery, 1910-1920

October 13	Mary K. Bowannie (Zuni/Cochiti) 
		Journalist and Lecturer, Native American Studies
		University College, University of New Mexico
		Native Peoples and the Media: Challenges of News Coverage and Media Ownership 
	
$10 per lecture or  $45 Series Subscription for 9 Lectures
10% of the Net   Donated to the American Indian College Fund


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