How a Group of Navajo Teens Promoted a Re-telling of History at Bosque Redondo

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 …

Press Release — Railroads in Native America (2)

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 …

Be a Part of the Gathering: Railroads in Native America (2) Described on PBS Utah “Contact”

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 …

“Railroads in Native America” Field Trip — May 19th

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, …