SOUTHWEST SEMINARS PRESENTS

NATIVE VOICES 2008

MONDAY EVENINGS AT 6 PM AT HOTEL SANTA FE
OFFERED AS A BENEFIT FOR THE AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND
A PUBLIC PROGAM GRACIOUSLY ASSISTED BY HOTEL SANTA FE, A PICURISS 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

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