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Dynamic Multi-System Resilience in Human Aging/Resilience in New Mexico’s Indigenous Communities

From Complex Time

November 13, 2018
12:40 pm - 1:20 pm

Presenter

Porter Swentzell (Institute of American Indian Arts)

Abstract

This presentation focuses on the Indigenous Pueblo nations of New Mexico. In particular, the focus is on resilience among Tewa-speaking Pueblo communities of northern New Mexico. Pueblo peoples have managed to find creative ways to survive and thrive as sedentary agriculturalists for thousands of years in the high desert environment of the southwestern United States. Through the impositions of various waves of colonialism, Pueblo people have relied on their axiologies to maintain strong linguistic and cultural traditions in the communities they have lived in for centuries. The Pueblo approach to resilience serves as an example for peoples in New Mexico and perhaps around the world.

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