Description

Carrie Heitman and her team, working in collaboration with Octavius Seowtewa and other Zuni leaders, have spent the last three years making two short documentary films about archaeological and ethnographic collections removed from the Pueblo of Zuni and taken to the National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. The films feature Zuni artists, religious leaders, and knowledge keepers, and follow members of the Zuni Cultural Resource Advisory Team on their travels to Washington, D.C. to reunite with ancestral belongings. The films ask: What was lost in the taking? And what can be regained by sharing A:shiwi (Zuni) histories of connection? During this presentation you will see the 15-minute public film followed by a commentary and Q&A with Octavius and Carrie.