Envisioning Diné Bikeyah for Our Families 102 Years From Now
Intergenerational Family Voices
Áłchíní bizaad íílí
Áłchíní hózhóójí bá Nahat’á
Navajo Nation Museum, Window Rock, AZ
Wed. July 26 – Thurs. July 27, 2023
PROGRAM SCHEDULE
Navajo Nation Museum, Window Rock
Envisioning our families 102 years from now on Diné Bikeyah means stepping up and taking responsibility. It means already knowing what is valuable for our families that ought to be in place 102 years from now, which is a Diné lifetime.
Intergenerational sharing means your family is speaking with one another, relating, and sharing knowledge.
Memories, including knowledge and trauma, exist collectively, especially among Indigenous Peoples. We have experienced multigenerational traumas including boarding schools and the displacement of familial knowledge, even language, without which even the Earth Mother cannot receive the rain.
Our children can be wounded in multiple ways: by bad things happening but also by good things not happening, such as their needs for planning not being met.
Tʼáá hó ájítʼéego, tʼáá nihi’ádaníítʼéego means, “it’s up to you, each of us, all of us, to make good things happen.” In this forum, many many visions of families will be shared; knowledge and skills for male and female rites of passage will be shared; relating with Mother Earth and all creatures will be shared; and journeys and planning will be shared.
Please note that this is a public event. Portions will be recorded.
Images on this page:
Logo at top of page: Daniel Josley, Shonto
Photo above in hogan: Sharon Tsosie, Chinle
Painting above of cornstalk: Sage Eriacho, Ft. Defiance