{"id":59325,"date":"2013-06-12T20:57:43","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T02:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/navajo-elder-scheduled-to-speak-at-heritage-center\/"},"modified":"2013-06-13T02:57:43","modified_gmt":"2013-06-13T02:57:43","slug":"navajo-elder-scheduled-to-speak-at-heritage-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/navajo-elder-scheduled-to-speak-at-heritage-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Navajo elder scheduled to speak at Heritage Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=925b4d7b-0d4b-4fa7-9c0f-d39fe80c863a&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1083\" height=\"986\" alt=\"Peshlakai\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Peshlakai<\/span><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Peshlakai taught applied indigenous studies as the elder-in-residence at Northern Arizona University, where he can apply his passion for Navajo cultural preservation to teach students about native plants, geology, self-reliance and cultural values.<\/p>\n<p>He also helped found the Navajo Arts and Crafts Cooperative, one of America\u2019s first native arts cooperatives, and the Peshlakai Dancers troupe, which performs across the country.<\/p>\n<p>As a singer, he released an album entitled \u201cSongs of the Navajo\u201d in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Peshlakai was born near Wupatki National Monument north of Flagstaff, Ariz., where his father, uncles and grandfathers were all hatathli (medicine men).<\/p>\n<p>This event is part of the 2013 Four Corners Lecture Series,  \u201cKnowing the Greater Southwest,\u201d a cooperative community project.<\/p>\n<p>The Anasazi Heritage Center (27501 Highway 184 in Dolores) is headquarters for Canyons of the Ancients National Monument. It is open daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and admission to the museum is free on the day of the lecture.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact the museum at 970-882-5600 or go to www.co.blm.gov\/ahc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peshlakaidu1-i-syn Peshlakai taught applied indigenous studies as the elder-in-residence at Northern Arizona University, where he can apply his passion for Navajo cultural preservation to teach students about native plants, geology, self-reliance and cultural values. He also helped found the Navajo Arts and Crafts Cooperative, one of America\u2019s first native arts cooperatives, and the Peshlakai Dancers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[188],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-59325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dolores-star"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59325"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=59325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}