Category Archives: cultural conservation

Always Becoming, podcasts at the National Museum of American Indian

Posted on August 9, 2008 by meredith

I recently saw this exhibit at the National Museum of the American Indian in D.C. The artist, Nora Naranjo-Morse, who is a Santa Clara Pueblo, is the first Native American woman to make an outdoor sculpture in D.C. What amazed … Continue reading →

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Native Seeds/S*E*A*R*C*H

Posted on August 5, 2008 by meredith

Just the other day my friend Dr. Kristin Dowell, an anthropologist who works with Native American communities, suggested I look into a project called Native Seeds, a seed bank and cultural memory bank based in the southwest. It am so … Continue reading →

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Rethinking Globalization: Teaching for Justice in an Unjust World textbook

Posted on May 19, 2008 by meredith

Rethinking Globalization:Teaching for Justice in an Unjust World textbook I just read about this textbook from Rethinking Schools. It was published in 2002. This resource textbook teaches students 4th-12th grades social justice issues as an interconnected web. As the authors … Continue reading →

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