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Nothing Left For Me at the Maxwell Museum at the University of New Mexico sheds light on a U.S. government plan in the 1930s to wipe out the ways of
Imposed upon Navajo people in the 1930s, the brutal Livestock Reduction Program proposed to eliminate over half of Diné livestock herds. Against the backdrop of the Dust Bowl and the Hoover Dam, livestock reduction was an extreme response to reports of...
UNM American Studies Professor and Chair Jennifer Denetdale (Diné) in partnership with the Navajo Nation Museum, has been awarded a $95,000 grant through the Henry Luce Foundation’s Indigenous Knowledge Initiative, sponsored by the First Nations...
The Maxwell Museum of Anthropology’s annual Ancestors lecture returns with a talk by The University of New Mexico Associate Professor Sherry Nelson. Nelson will speak about Becoming Human: The Early Stages from Ape to Hominin. The lecture will be...
The Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at The University of New Mexico is hosting a Family Day Event focused on Exploring Human Evolution. The event is part of Maxwell’s mission of working toward a greater understanding of the fullness of human experiences...