Artwork by Dalton Buddy James

Conference Goals (Spanish Version)

Respect

  • Promote bilingualism in English and Spanish among scholars and students on both sides of the border.
  • Present a series of public lectures and discussions fostering awareness, building relationships between central and southern Mexico, and showing connections regarding beliefs about the significance of maize and water.

Connection

  • Facilitate ongoing networking among indigenous communities to help them help each other promote traditional and sustainable farming, foodways, language preservation, biodiversity, and other goals they may identify.
  • Assist ongoing networking among scholars in a variety of disciplines.
  • Inspire students to explore these themes and goals and to provide networks for student resources.
  • Provide participants with a community project and scholarly information directory that include conference participant and recommended project organization contact information.

Cooperation

  • Promote dialogue and understanding of the cultural relations, ecological challenges, and sustainable solutions that link Indians in the U.S. Southwest, Northwest Mexico, and Mesoamerica over many centuries. 
  • Initiate dialog about conference themes between representatives of indigenous communities and academics, and among scholars across the international border.

Dissemination

  • Exchange information about the conference themes and strategies to educate local communities and the academy.
  • Produce bilingual publications of selected conference papers and roundtable discussion results.
  • Contribute input to the Hopi Iconography Project, chartered under a Memorandum of Understanding between the Hopi Tribe and the Museum of Northern Arizona and funded by a Rockefeller Foundation Consultation and Planning Grant, to create a traveling exhibit focused on Hopi earth stewardship, ecology, cosmology, and traditional crafts.