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Native Voices Program Components

Native Voices on the Colorado River offers a variety of program components from which river guides and outfitters can learn. The following are several examples. Please contact the program director for further information.

Workshops and Learning Projects

Online Learning

On-River Interpretation

Other Media

Cultural Exchange Workshops / Retreats & Optional Service Learning Projects

  • One hour to one or multiple day workshop-type sessions for river guides at appropriate or requested venues. The program will help design workshops for your outfitter needs and will also offer cultural workshops for all river guides.
  • One or two day cultural interpretation workshops for outfitter guides hosted on site at reservation areas – includes cultural activities and volunteer service work.
  • The program is planning to host heritage values, identity, and/or perspectives workshops or similar-type sessions to uncover the tangible and intangible connections to the Grand Canyon and surrounding region as appropriate. Proceedings of sorts can be developed into instructional modules, workshops, website information, articles,exhibits, etc.

 

Online Information

  • Initial information about tribes will be included on this website. As information is garnered and developed, the modules will be expanded upon. Tribal members will create or vet all information.
  • The program will create on-line tribal learning modules in collaboration with the affiliated tribes.

 

On-River Interpretation

  • The program collaborates with Northern Arizona University Native American Guide Training Program, through Nikki Cooley, Diné River Guide. This training program provides education and a venue for tribal members to seek potential careers and job opportunities with the river industry.
  • The program would also like to work with NPS and the outfitting community to host multiple on-river interpretation events. One example is a proposed native perspectives river trip with affiliated tribal representatives. The Native Voices program would appropriately document the on-river interpretation, out of which would come interpretive products, such as dvds, website enhancement, on-line training modules, etc.

Other Media

  • Native Voices on the Colorado River Tribal Series newsletter
  • Develop a series of articles for Boatman’s Quarterly Review
  • Produce a short publication including photos and cultural map on tribal perspectives of the Grand Canyon (long term goal)
  • Produce poster-type “exhibits” - to be displayed at outfitters’ headquarters developed by “community curators” (term borrowed from National Museum of the American Indian) about native perspectives of the Grand Canyon.

 

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