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Indian 101 Transformational Learning Experience

Online
2/2/2023

“We don’t learn about the history of America in school. We are taught the story of Europeans coming to America.” LaDonna Harris (Comanche)

Going beyond traditional cultural competency training, Americans for Indian Opportunity’s (AIO)

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1 hour

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The Pueblo of Acoma’s Cultural Inheritance & Archaeological Partnership in the “Lands Between” of Southeastern Utah

Online
2/9/2023

Located among the arid canyons and mesas of southeastern Utah are some of the best-preserved archaeological sites in the world. However, while other areas within the northern Southwest have been recognized and protected via federal designation, the area known

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1 hour

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Footsteps into the Past at White Sands National Park

Online
2/16/2023

The discovery of human footprints at White Sands National Park has opened up a new archive of evidence on past behaviors and human presence. In this talk, Dr. Bennett will review some of this new evidence and create "snap-shot" into the past and discuss the

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Horses and Humans in the Early Historic North American West

Online
2/23/2023

In the centuries following Spanish colonization of the Americas, domestic horses revolutionized the world of the North American West, giving rise to the great horse cultures of the plains and deserts and forming the backbone of economically, politically, and

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A Woman’s Role in Hopi Society

Online
3/9/2023

Hopi gender roles have always provided a balance within Hopi society. As a matrilineal society, Hopi women have a specific purpose and path that has traditionally been followed for a millennium. In this presentation, Deloria will present a brief overview of

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Colorado Ute History and Colonial Land & Water Appropriation

Online
3/23/2023

The history of how Colorado’s rivers were allocated, dammed, and diverted is inextricable from the history of US conquest in Colorado. Amorina researched the history of the Bureau of Reclamation’s Dolores Project, which built McPhee Dam and diverts water

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1 hour

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*SOLD OUT* Backcountry Archaeology: Hiking the Bears Ears

Blanding, UT
April 2–8, 2023

Be Curious, Be Brave...

Carved into the banded sandstone of Bears Ears National Monument are twisting gorges and deep canyons. Careful and persistent hikers are met with exquisitely preserved rock art panels, kivas, towers, and granaries—a

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7 days

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Tó éí iiná: Water is Life, The Dakota Access Pipeline, Navajo National Sovereignty, and Pipelines as Kin

Online
4/13/2023

This presentation examines the role of kinship and resistance as a means of interrogating pipeline infrastructure in Native and Indigenous communities. From the fierce protests of the Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing Rock in 2016 to the construction of the

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1 hour

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Exploring Fremont Territoriality and Resource Defense in Nine Mile Canyon, Utah

Online
4/20/2023

Territoriality, or the exclusion of competitors from resource patches, is an important strategy among a wide variety of human groups and is a continual topic of interest for researchers investigating human social organization and resource conflict. While

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1 hour

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More than Warp and Weft; The Survival of Diné Textile Arts

Online
4/27/2023

Through many centuries, the Diné textile traditions have endured, and are a quintessential element, of Venancio’s and his people’s cultural identity and history. Diné weavings fulfilled various needs in different times. Change and adaptation have long

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What All of Us Can Learn from the Old Ones

Online
8/3/2023

In this presentation, Dr. Ortman discusses two important movements in archaeology today. The first is the recognition that archaeologists study the cultural heritage of Indigenous peoples, and the second is the urge to make the results of archaeology helpful

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1 hour

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Archaeology Research Program, Session I

Cortez, CO
September 4–8, 2023

Join an archaeological survey at Hawkins Preserve, a 122-acre natural area located just south of Cortez, Colorado. The Preserve includes numerous Ancestral Pueblo habitations (A.D. 500–A.D. 1300) that are part of the Mitchell Springs Group, one of the

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5 days

Starting at: $1025.00

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Archaeology Research Program, Session II

Cortez, CO
September 18–22, 2023

Join an archaeological survey at Hawkins Preserve, a 122-acre natural area located just south of Cortez, Colorado. The Preserve includes numerous Ancestral Pueblo habitations (A.D. 500–A.D. 1300) that are part of the Mitchell Springs Group, one of the

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5 days

Starting at: $1025.00

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