SSLW2024: Full Schedule

6:00pm MST

Special Event: Indigenous activist-educator voices and local ecologies

Friday November 15, 2024 6:00pm - 8:00pm MST

Elder Vernon Masayesva and Professor Sheilah Nicholas will share their experience as ecological/educational activists and language/literacy educators in support of their ancestral Hopi lands and peoples as an inextricable part of our spiritual and ecological world.

Presenters

Vernon Masayesva

Executive Director, Black Mesa Trust

Vernon Masayesva is the Executive Director of Black Mesa Trust, a Hopi Leader of the Coyote Clan and a former Chairman of the Hopi Tribal Council from the village of Hotevilla, one of the oldest continuously inhabited human settlement in the Americas in Arizona.Masayesva received his B.A. degree from Arizona State University in Political Scien... Read More →

Sheilah Nicholas

Professor, University of Arizona

Sheilah E. Nicholas is a member of the Hopi Tribe located in Arizona. She is a Professor in the Department of Teaching, Learning and Sociocultural Studies (TLSS) at the University of Arizona (UA). She teaches courses in Indigenous Culture-Based Education, Language and Culture, Oral Traditions, Language... Read More →

Friday November 15, 2024 6:00pm - 8:00pm MST
South Ballroom

Special Event