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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 …
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 …