Colorado Plateau Project: Dialogue Between Two Worlds

           

An on-line educational exhibit bringing together cultural values about water, wind and breath and global climate change

Acknowledgements

Anthropologists and Indian scholars have contributed significantly to the development of this exhibit over its many years.

Sir Francis Huxley generously provided books and manuscripts that are singularly insightful into the archaic sense of image; Dr. Kay Sutherland, a professor at St. John’s University in Austin, Texas, whose firm proof in a cultural continuum between Mexican and American Southwest iconography was stellar; Rina Swentzell, Ph.D., Santa Clara Pueblo, whose understanding of the wind/water/breath complex became a foundation for this work; Alphonso Ortiz, San Juan Pueblo, one of the first Pueblo scholars to challenge conventional anthropology; Chuck Dailey, museum director, at IAIA in Santa Fe, New Mexico; James Kootshongsie, Water and Corn Clan, persistent writer and publisher of Techqua Ikachi: Hopi Traditional Land and Life; and so many fine and generous Native American and Tibetan spokespeople who  have led my way.

 

Finally, The Tides Foundation, Esther Price and Charles Bensinger provided support without which this would not have been possible.