Created as an homage to my desert ancestors, I focus on the historical significance of Indigenous southwestern tribal adornment culture and the perpetuation of those adornment practices perpetuated into the 21st century. In honor of my Navajo & Hopi Pueblo People & my ancestral matriarchs, and male relatives who adorned themselves with elements of the earth. Be Matriarch. Hózhó Nashá- Beauty all Around. Venaya Yazzie
Saturday, September 30, 2017
Neo-Indigenous Adornment
Here are some items that the neo-Indigenous person adorns with. We are still here, we are steadfast, we are strong.
Monday, September 25, 2017
Venaya Speaks!
Fort Lewis College has hosted this event for many years now, and with it a plethora of visiting Indigenous speakers, artists, educators and performers. This year I will be speaking and leading a workshop titled:
Decolonizing Their Feminism Via Indigenous Epistemology.
Here is info from their FLC site:
Her workshop will be offered both at 2:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. in the La Plata Room and is called: "Decolonizing their Feminism via indigenous Epistemology." The conscious cultural awareness of the Desert Matriarch concerns the Epistemology of Navajo and Pueblo societies of women as intrinsic 'leaders' in their communities. We as 21st century women must re-ignite this concept in our modernity as an act of decolonizing, especially away from the alien Euro-American concept of feminism
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