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Diné Covid 19 PSA Posters (for downloading)
On April 14, 2020, a Huffington Post headline read, “Navajo Nation Reports More Coronavirus Cases per Capita Than All but 2 U.S. States: Only New York and New Jersey Have More Confirmed Infections per...
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covid 19 public service announcements
public service announcement outside tuba city, az moenkopi wash mask jiní or mask, they say! jc morningstar at black mesa junction colleen cooley with a poem by poet esther belin esther’s poem...
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4 meditations on a changing environment
Four Meditations on a Changing Climate The first image is a portrait of 2 shrubs that were scorched recently in a brush fire near my home. Scientific models project more fires nationwide (worldwide...
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american rent is due
Forty miles north of Flagstaff, Arizona just before entering the Diné nation and the Painted Desert sits a motel abandoned since 2005. The motel was built originally in the 1950s and as postcards from...
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Pandemic Chronicles
I spent the early part of the pandemic (April to August), collaborating with poets Esther Belin, Jess X. Snow, Ursula Rucker, Mahogany L. Brown and Olmeca and visual artists Titus Brooks Heagins and...
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Native Enslavement in the Southwest
Gabriel Woodson, enslaved Navajo person, in the San Luis Valley (circa 1880). Juan Carson, enslaved Navajo youth of Kit Carson and his wife, Josepha appears in back. Per Cynthia S. Becker and P. David...
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Tacos La Pasadita
I spent part of this past week in Green River, Utah as a guest of Epicenter whose mission statement reads “Epicenter stewards creative initiatives that honor the past, strengthen the present, and...
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combining elements 1
water Ben washing up before supper at the winter hogan on Cumming’s Mesa. May 1995. (Installation at Gray Mountain, AZ with accompanying sound loop by Ken Ogawa.) Anyone who has spent time in the...
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junaluska
Jamison Whittington plays by a mural of his great grandfather, Sam Horton, Jr. The Junaluska community in Boone, North Carolina is one of the earliest African American communities in western North...
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Charlie Glass and the mystery woman.
Charlie Glass mural, Moab, UT October 2023 I didn’t know who the lady beside Charlie Glass was when I put this piece up in Moab, UT in October of this year. When Mary Langworthy of Moab Museum...
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