Miacel Spotted Elk, High Country News, who reports on the Indigenous Affairs for the Intermountain West, describes the complex yet essential work the “Railroads in Native America” (RNA) Steering Committee sought to accomplish, in this Utah Division of Indian Affairs directed conference, held last May 19-21, 2022. The aritcle includes noteworthy photographs of professional Utah photographer Eugene Tapahe (Diné). Two …
As author Jordan Eddy writes in the online arts magazine Hyperallergic, a group of seventeen Diné youth, with their chaperones, stopped at the Bosque Redondo Memorial at Fort Sumner Historic Site (New Mexico), thirty-two years ago, on June 27, 1990. Their leaders inform them that they would be experiencing “their own history.” This clearly did not happen. Before they left …
The Railroads in Native America Gathering, Utah’s first Native-led public history conference, is planned to amplify the voices of Indigenous scholars, leaders and students in exploring the often fraught, dynamic 160-year interaction with America’s railroad systems. The public is invited to the event, which will take place at the Ogden Union Station, 2501 Wall Ave., on May 19-21. This gathering …
James Toledo (Diné) Program Manager, from the Utah Division of Indian Affairs, describes for PBS Contact host Mary Dickson, the free history event Railroads in Native America (Click Here to watch this three minute interview), May 19-21, 2022 at the Ogden Union Station. Dickson and Toledo begin the discussion by making reference to the 2019 150th anniversary celebration regarding the …
Caption for the above photo: Eleven Sioux men including chiefs, Fort Yates within Standing Rock Reservation, Dakota Territory, 1881; taken by Northern Pacific Railroad photography F. Jay Haynes, Summer 1881. Courtesy of Leo Boudreau (Flickr) This bibliography was prepared by John Flynn, of the American West Center at the University of Utah, and includes monographs, articles, websites, digital exhibits, online …
Parry will speak at the opening evening reception (starts at 6:30 pm), Thursday, May 19, 2022 in the Browning Theater, Ogden Union Station. Above Photo Caption: Members of Chief Pocatello’s band, Northwestern Shoshone; Charles W. Carter presumed photographer. Courtesy of Utah State Historical Society. While many have argued that the transcontinental railroad was one of the greatest accomplishment of American …
Above photograph is of Shoshone Indians, taken by Union Pacific Railways contractor-photographer Andrew J. Russell in 1869. One-sixth or more of the first Transcontinental Railroad travelled through Shoshone Nation lands. Photo courtesy of wikipedia.commons.org. The subjects and presenters involved in the Railroads in Native America Gathering are national in scope, all focusing on the intersections between railroads and Native America, …
Caption for photo above: Unidentified Diné section gang shifting rails into alignment near Gallup, New Mexico, on The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway. This shot was taken by a corporate or contracted AT&SF photographer. Courtesy of the Kansas Historical Society. When working in one locale for an extended period of time, Sam Platero and his fellow Santa Fe Railroad workers …
To tell the story described below, the Hal and Naomi Tate Foundation commissioned and donated the artwork “Distant Thunder” by sculptor Michael Coleman, to the Golden Spike National Historical Park. This was the unveiling ceremony, May 10th, 2019, as part of 150th anniversary recognition of the completion of the transcontinental railroad in the Utah Territory on May 10, 1869. Courtesy …
02.28.2022. The above image is of a map that shows locations of Indian Reservations (1885) United States & Territories; John D.C. Atkins, Comission of Indian Affairs; Paul Brodie, Draftsman. Note the railway rightaways running through the center of the Fort Hall Reservation. Keynote Argument: Railroads are vehicles of settler colonization and imperialism, and the experience of one Indian Reservation illustrates …
02.28.2022. The above image is a photo of our artist Amanda Francom and their art piece used for the RNA Gathering. The artwork for the Railroads in Native America (RNA) Gathering was created by twenty-five years old Amanda Francom, a member of the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation. Besides attending the University of Utah (U of U), Francom is …
02.23.2022. The above image is a photograph of an unidentified Native American railroad worker at the Winslow, Arizona Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad yard. Photograph by Jack Delano (1914 – 1997). Courtesy of the Library of Congress. What does Diné artist Leo Platero remember about his railroad worker father? In the late 1950s Leo’s father, silversmith Sam Platero, worked …