Start Date: Wednesday, January 22, 2025
End Date: Saturday, March 14, 2026
HEADLINE: A new exhibit at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, Entangled Cultures: How Humans and Microbes Co-create through Fermentation, traces the interplay of cultural...
Milton Snow, Two sites of former hogans. Fartherest [sic] occupied this year, nearest one occupied this year. Red Lake (Tolani Lakes, Leupp, Arizona), 1935-1936. Reproduction of archival photograph, Maxwell Museum of Anthropology Archives, 87.45.116
Start Date: Saturday, May 4, 2024
End Date: Saturday, May 3, 2025
Exhibit Summary: Using the photograph as a site of inquiry, this exhibition examines the impact of U.S. Indian Commissioner John Collier’s brutal Navajo Livestock Reduction Program on Diné communities and homelands.
Imposed upon Navajo people in the 1930s, this federal program proposed to eliminate over half of Diné livestock herds. Against the backdrop of the Dust Bowl and the Hoover Dam, livestock reduction was an extreme response to reports of over-grazing throughout Diné Bikéyah, the...
