Ways of Knowing: Indigenous Connections to Landscape and Place in Central Appalachia
Saturday, November 9
Myles Center, Davis & Elkins College, Elkins WV from 9:30 to 4:30, followed by a reception closing the 2024 Creating Home exhibit at Appalachian Forest Discovery Center.
More info TBA!
Presenters:
Joe Stahlman
Joe Stalhman:
Dr. Joe Stahlman (Tuscarora/Pennsylvania Dutch) is an anthropologist, historian, scholar, and researcher. He has over 30 years of research experience working with First Peoples and allies. His research focuses on culture and history, as well as ongoing socio-economic and health & wellness related endeavors with Native communities. He takes an active role in addressing the spaces Native peoples occupy in North American museums, arts, archaeology, cultural resource management, and scholarship. Regularly, Joe talks on the need to promote equity, equality, and justice among all peoples in North American society through a number of reconciliatory processes which are inclusive for all and empowers people to express agency through creative and intellectual endeavors.
Joshua Garcia
Joshua Garcia:
“Preserving the Future of our Past”. In this talk, I hope to show the struggles that tribal nations must face in cultural revitalization in order to preserve their cultural practices and how my tribe (Wyandotte Nation) is working to maintain our cultural knowledge.
Kweh. My English name is Joshua Garcia. I am the oldest of three boys to Kim and Arturo Garcia. I am a proud citizen of the Wyandotte Nation. I graduated with my Bachelors of Science from Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, KS in May of 2020. While there, I had the opportunity to run collegiately, represent the University as the 2019-2020 Haskell Brave, and have had the opportunity to travel to other communities with my friends from college and have been able to see the similarities and differences between our communities. After college, I moved back home and became the Media/Communications Specialist for the Wyandotte Nation Cultural Center & Museum."
