DesignBuildBLUFF, with generous support from the Utah Humanities Council, is pleased to present its Friday Night Lecture Series.  Our next trip down, we’ll have two presentations:

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Friday, February 5th

Joe Pachak

Ancestral Pueblo:  Cultural Forms  found in Archeoastronomy, Rock Art  and Architecture

The prehistoric archaeological record gives us the information to see how iconography shaped architectural forms.  We will explore the rock art through time from Basket Maker into Puebloan culture. Icons found in rock art display Creation Mythology of the Basket Maker People, the landscape and the sky, the light and the dark, inspires these  icons and establish a very strong tradition that is carried into the Puebloan culture.

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Friday, February 12th

Caroline Lameman

My Understanding of Where I Belong

During my talk, I would like to speak about my life off the reservation and how when I came back, it was difficult to fit back into the community I had never really belonged to. At the same time, I would like to describe the connections between clans and how I fit into the system. When I came back, I began to become interested in how a lot of people were somehow related and that I had a lot more family than I would have thought before. The clan system is really more complicated and complex than it appears to be, and can get confusing. I would like to explain it and break it down in my terms so that more people can understand how we relate to each other as kin. With my knowledge of the system, I now know where I belong with my people.

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We welcome any and all to these presentations, given at the Recapture Lodge in Bluff, Utah.  Our presentations begin at 7:00 and last approximately an hour.  This program has received funding from the Utah Humanities Council.  The Utah Humanities Council promotes understanding of human traditions, values, and issues through informed public discussion.  Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication/program/exhibition/website do not necessarily represent those of the Utah Humanities Council or the National Endowment for the Humanities.