In-Person Conversation - Indigenous Mapping: Jim Enote, Joe Bryan & Laura Harjo
Friday, November 19, 2021 6pm – 7:30pm
EVENT IS SOLD OUT
The event will be recorded and added to 516 ARTS Watch and Listen page in the next several weeks.
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Originals or photos of documents with a matching ID will be accepted. Masks are required for indoor events. In-person events are subject to switch to online depending on the COVID situation at that time.
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516 ARTS invites the public to a conversation about indigenous ways of knowing and spacetelling with leading scholars in the field of indigenous cartography. Jim Enote, Co-Curator of Counter Mapping exhibition on view at 516 ARTS is a Zuni farmer, author, and map activist. Joe Bryan, professor of Geography at University of Colorado Boulder focuses on contemporary politics and indigeneity. Laura Harjo is a Mvskoke scholar and Associate Professor teaching Indigenous Planning, Community Development, and Indigenous Feminisms at Oklahoma University. This conversation offers an opportunity to learn about different ways of mapping the land and to reflect on colonization, history, and cosmologies.
MORE ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:
JIM ENOTE is a Zuni tribal member, farmer, and activist who has spent over 40 years working professionally to protect and steward cultural and natural resources. He is the CEO of the Colorado Plateau Foundation, which supports regional Native communities to protect water and sacred places, ensure food security, and preserve languages and ancestral knowledge. He serves on the boards of the Trust for Mutual Understanding and the Grand Canyon Trust, the Governing Council of The Wilderness Society, and is a National Geographic Society Explorer, a New Mexico Community Luminaria, and an E.F. Schumacher Society Fellow. As a lifelong farmer, Enote has been planting crops for 64 consecutive years and defines himself first as a practitioner of a culture of land use.
LAURA HARJO earned her Ph.D. in Geography at the University of Southern California, while also studying in the American Studies and Ethnicity doctoral program. Her work focuses on the intersection of Geography and Critical Ethnic Studies. Her research and teaching explores the subjects of: complexity of Indigenous space and place; missing and murdered indigenous women; and community-based knowledge production. Her book titled Spiral to the Stars offers a critical and concrete map for community-making that leverages indigenous way-finding tools. It is organized around radical sovereignty, community knowledge, collective power, and emergence geographies.
JOE BRYAN’s work focuses on the politics of indigeneity in the Americas, with particular attention to questions of land, territory, and rights. He has been an advocate and a researcher for indigenous communities in Ecuador, Chile, Honduras, and the western United States. Much of that work further engages with the diversity of mapping practices used to advocate for recognition of indigenous land rights. The book he coedited, titled Radical Cartographies, sheds light on the innovative uses of participatory mapping emerging from Latin America’s marginalized communities. Maps have served as tools of colonization, imperialism, and global development, at the expense of Indigenous peoples and other marginalized communities. Over the past two decades, these marginalized populations have increasingly turned to participatory mapping practices to develop new, innovative maps that harness the power of cartography in their struggles for justice.
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