SOUTHWEST SEMINARS PRESENTS
NATIVE VOICES 2010

MONDAY EVENINGS AT 6 PM AT HOTEL SANTA FE
OFFERED AS A BENEFIT FOR THE SMITHSONIAN, MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN TREATY EXHIBITION

August 16 Luci Tapahonso (Dine)
Professor, American Indian Studies, University of Arizona; Writer and Poet: One More Shiprock Night; Through the Eye of the Deer; The Breath of Parted Lips; and Author or Contributor: Songs of Shiprock Fair; Hayookaal: An Anthology of Navajo Writers; Blue Horses Rush In: Poems and Stories; Navajo ABC: A Dine’ Alphabet Book; A Baby Brother is Born; This is How They Were Placed For Us; Saa’nii Dahataa: The Women Are Singing: Poems and Stories; A Breeze Swept Through: Seasonal Woman
Native Voice in Poetry and Literature

August 23 Suzan Shown Harjo (Cheyenne/Hodulgee Muscogee)
Writer, Poet, Activist, Policy Analyst, and Legislative Advocate for Native Affairs; Founder and President, The Morning Star Institute, Washington, D.C.; Founding Trustee, Smithsonian Institution National Museum of the American Indian; and Former Dobkin Fellow, School of Advanced Research on the Human Experience
Treaties My Ancestors Made For Me

August 30 Dr. Jennifer Nez Denetdale (Dine)
Associate Professor of American Studies, University of New Mexico; former Associate Professor of History, Northern Arizona University; Historian and Author:Reclaiming Dine’ History: The Legacies of Navajo Chief Manuelito and Juanita
Manuelito and Juanita: Navajo Traditional Leadership

September 6 Kevin Gover (Pawnee), J.D.
Director, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI); Former Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs, United States Department of the Interior; Former Professor, Native American Law, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law and Affiliate Professor, American Indian Studies Program and former Co-executive Director, American Indian Policy Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona; co-founder,Gover, Stetson, and Williams; and former Lawyer, Steptoe & Johnson, Washington, D.C.
Native Peoples of America and Their Treaties with the United States of America

September 17 Dr. Ronald H. Towner
(Friday) Assistant Professor, Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of ArizonaTuscon, Arizona and Acquisitions Editor, Kiva, The Journal of Southwestern Anthropology and History
Tree Rings and Early Navajos in the Dinetah Heartland

September 20 Hampton Sides
Historian, Writer, and Author: Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of WWII’s Greatest Rescue Mission; Hellhound On His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin; Blood and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson & the Conquest of the American West
Kit Carson and Native People in the Era of Manifest Destiny

September 27 Dr. Peter M. Whiteley
Curator of North American Ethnology, American Museum of Natural History and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University, New York; Editorial Board Member, American Anthropologist and Author: ‘The Orayvi Split: A Hopi Transformation’; ‘Bartering Pahos With the President’; ‘Social Formations in the Pueblo IV Southwest: An Ethnological View’; Explanation vs. Sensation: The Discourse of Cannibalism at Awat’ovi’; ‘Re-imagining Awat’ovi’; ‘Hopi Histories’; Archaeology and Oral Tradition: The Scientific Importance of Dialogue’; and co-author, ‘A Misrepresentation of Ancestral Pueblo’; ‘The Hopi Gift Economy’; ‘Reconnoitering ‘’Pueblo” Ethnicity: The 1852 Tesuque Delegation to Washington; Rethinking Hopi Ethnography;
Turquoise & Squash: Dualities in Puebloan Thought and Society of Long Duration

October 4 Dr. Michael V. Wilcox (Yuma),
Anthropologist and Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California and Author: The Pueblo Revolt and the Mythology of Conquest:An Indigenous Archaeology of Contact;
Indigenous Peoples: Continuing Presence Through a Different Lens

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