Save the Confluence

Backpacking the Grand Canyon - Tuscon, AZ
2016-06-16 18:30 - 19:30 (America/Phoenix) | REI, 160 W Wetmore Rd, Tucson, AZ, 85705, United States
No matter your age, backpacking the Grand Canyon can be a life-changing experience. Co-founders of the Grand Canyon Challenge, Andy Wagemaker and Chris Casado are passionate about exploring one of our world’s natural wonders.
They’ve spent countless days hiking into hidden gorges, following natural springs, and sleeping on the beaches of the Colorado River. Join Andy Wagemaker on a digital journey of his favorite Grand Canyon adventure, a rugged 35 mile loop with a trip to the Colorado. Spend the evening exploring some of the Canyon’s least traveled regions, and meeting its wildlife. Learn the nuts and bolts of preparing for a multi-day Grand Canyon trek, including permits, trail options, gear, Leave No Trace, safety and weather considerations. Learn tips on making your Grand Canyon experience rewarding for families and individuals of all ages.

Forum: Who Speaks for Public Lands?
2016-06-15 18:00 - 19:30 (America/Denver) | Museum of Northern Arizona, 3101 N Fort Valley Rd, Flagstaff, AZ, 86001, United States
FREE public event, no RSVP required.
A debate is brewing over America’s public lands, and we want you to be a part of the discussion. Join us for A Future of the Colorado Plateau Forum Special Event, “Who Speaks for Public Lands?” on June 15th to hear a lively conversation on the future of our national inheritance.
Panelists:
Paul Larmer – Executive Director, High Country News
Jim Enote – Director, A:shiwi A:wan Museum & Heritage Center, Zuni, New Mexico
Sarah Krakoff – Professor of Law, University of Colorado Boulder
Kieran Suckling – Executive Director, Center for Biological Diversity
Moderator:
Bill Hedden –Executive Director, Grand Canyon Trust
More info: http://www.grandcanyontrust.org/forum-who-speaks-public-lands

Future of the Colorado Plateau Forum: Who Speaks for Public Lands? (And Who's Listening?)
2016-06-15 18:00 - 19:30 (America/Denver) | Museum of Northern Arizona, 3101 N Fort Valley Rd, Flagstaff, AZ, 86001, United States
Who should control and manage millions of acres of public lands in the American West?
Join us for a lively conversation on the future of our national inheritance.
Featured panelists include: Paul Larmer, Executive Director/Publisher, High Country News; Sarah Krakoff, Professor of Law, University of Colorado Boulder; Kieran Suckling, Executive Director, Center for Biological Diversity; and Jim Enote, Director, A:shiwi A:wan Museum & Heritage Center, Zuni, New Mexico.
Moderated by Bill Hedden, Executive Director, Grand Canyon Trust.
FREE Event

2016 Navajo Rug Auction
2016-06-11 09:00 - 17:00 (America/Denver) | Museum of Northern Arizona, 3101 N Fort Valley Rd, Flagstaff, AZ, 86001, United States
More than 300 vintage and contemporary Navajo weavings from artists, consigners, and the R.B. Burnham & Co. Trading Post will be featured at the 2015 Navajo Rug Auction. Rug styles include: Two Grey Hills, Ganado, Teec Nos Pos, Ye’ii, Pictorial, Wide Ruins, Storm, Sandpainting, and Eyedazzler. Specialists and experts in the field of Native American art and Navajo weaving will be on-site to identify handspun, hand-carded, and vintage pieces, versus acrylic yarns, to ensure quality items and prices. Information on how to evaluate and buy Navajo rugs will also be available.
Public Preview: 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Auction: 2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Presented in partnership by Flagstaff Arts Council and the Museum of Northern Arizona.

Sierra Club Legislative Wrap-up and PAC Fundraiser
2016-06-01 17:30 - 19:00 (America/Denver) | Treeo, 906 N 6th Street, Phoenix, AZ, 85004, United States
Please join Sandy Bahr – Sierra Club’s eyes and ears at the State Capitol – and our Chapter Political Team to discuss the 2016 Legislative session. Come learn about the impacts of some of the bills and how they will affect our water, wildlife, and more. Find out why, more than ever, we need to help change some faces at the Legislature and what you can do to help make that happen.
Suggested contribution: $25.
RSVP to Sandy Bahr at sandy.bahr@sierraclub.org or (602) 253-8633.
If you cannot attend but would like to contribute, click on
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=KJXGHBFD3Z46J
or send your donation to Sierra Club Arizona PAC, 514 W Roosevelt St, Phoenix, AZ 85003. (Please ensure that your check is made out to “Sierra Club Arizona PAC”)
Contributions to the Sierra Club Arizona PAC are not tax deductible for federal income tax purposes. Arizona law requires a political committee to use its best efforts to obtain and report the name, mailing address, occupation, and name of the employer for each individual whose combined contributions exceed $25 in an elections cycle. Contributions are prohibited from corporations, minors, and foreign nationals.

26th Annual Zuni Festival of Arts & Culture
2016-05-28 09:00 - 2016-05-29 17:00 (America/Denver) | Museum of Northern Arizona, 3101 N Fort Valley Rd, Flagstaff, AZ, 86001, United States
Share in language, life ways and traditions of more than 50 Zuni artists at the 26th Annual Zuni Festival of Arts & Culture. Buy traditional and contemporary art directly from the artists, enjoy insightful lectures and documentaries, and delight in musical and dance performances by the Zuni Olla Maidens and the Cellicion Zuni Dancers.
Presented in partnership with the A:shiwi A:wan Museum and Heritage Center (AAMHC) in Zuni, N.M.
$12 adult; $8 student (with ID), American Indian (10+ with tribal affiliation) and youth 10-17. Children under 10 are free.

Community Meeting: Grand Canyon Heritage
2016-05-25 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Phoenix) | Encanto Park, 2605 N. 15th Avenue, Phoenix, AZ, 85007, United States
Grand Canyon’s watershed is a magnificent landscape that provides clean drinking water, countless opportunities for outdoor recreation, and spiritual renewal. This special place draws people from around the world, generating billions each year for the economy and supporting thousands of jobs. However, the area remains at risk from threats like toxic uranium mining and old-growth logging. The Grand Canyon Heritage needs to be permanently protected.
Please join us for this important meeting to learn about the benefits of this national monument proposal, ways to protect this area, and how you can support this designation.
Wednesday, May 25, 7–8:30 p.m.
Encanto Park Clubhouse
2605 N 15th Ave, Phoenix, AZ 85007
Light refreshments and ample parking
On bus route 15 Stop #11063
Not able to make the meeting? Please visit our website to learn more and to sign our petition: http://bit.ly/GCNMpetition.
For more information and to RSVP,
contact Alicia Hamilton 602.254.9330 or
alicia.hamilton@sierraclub.org.

2016 Middle Colorado River State of the River Seminar
2016-05-25 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Denver) | Ute Theater and Events Center, 132 East 4th Street, Rifle, CO, 81650, United States
How much snowmelt will eventually flow into our reservoirs and rivers? Join us to learn all about this year’s snowpack figures, water supply forecasts and anticipated stream flows & conditions.
The Colorado River District and the Middle Colorado Watershed Council will co-sponsor the annual “State of the River” meeting on Wednesday, May 25 from 6-8pm at the Ute Events Center in Rifle. The public meeting will provide an overview of expected river flows in the Colorado River, as well as other topics pertaining to the Watershed. The packed lineup will include:

Victor Lee, Hydrologic Monitoring Program Coordinator, Bureau of Reclamation
Laurie Rink, Executive Director, Middle Colorado Watershed Council
Jim Miller, Utility Director, City of Rifle
Eric Kuhn, General Manager, Colorado River District
Nolan Doesken, Colorado State Climatologist, Colorado Climate Center

Upstream & Downstream Film Festival and Forum
2016-05-24 19:00 (America/Denver) | Grand Center, 182 N 500 W, Moab, UT, 84532, United States
In the face of ongoing threats to the Colorado River, its tributaries, people and sacred places, the “Upstream – Downstream Film Festival & Forum” will be held in Moab, Utah on Tuesday, May 24th at 7 pm.
The evening will feature four short films as well as speakers from tribes in Utah and Arizona. Concerned about the proposed Green River nuclear power plant and funding cuts in the cleanup of radioactive uranium tailings next to the Colorado River, tribal leaders and Elders from the Colorado River Indian Tribes will be traveling nearly 600 miles to Moab from their home along the river in Parker, Arizona for the film festival and forum. They will be joined by tribal members from the White Mesa Ute Community, Hopi Tribe, Navajo Nation and Uintah Ouray Ute Tribe who will discuss efforts to protect the rivers, people and sacred sites from destruction and desecration.
Local Moab residents and grassroots groups concerned about pollution, climate change and protection of indigenous sacred sites are organizing the film festival and are working to bring together “upstream and downstream” communities and tribes in Utah and Arizona to strengthen ongoing efforts.
The films to be screened are:
Half Life: the story of American’s last uranium mill
In southeast Utah lies America’s last remaining Uranium Mill. The Ute Mountain Ute Tribe worries that lax regulations and the mill’s aging infrastructure threaten their water supply and way of life.
Marking of a Milestone
The Colorado River Indian Tribes are working to protect the river and sacred sites, and are facing challenges from industrial scale solar power projects in the Mojave Desert.
Defending the Sacred
Story of the long battle by the Colorado River Native Nations Alliance and environmental justice allies that defeated a nuclear waste dump proposed on sacred land at Ward Valley near the Colorado River.
Bear’s Ears: The Movement to Protect a Cultural Landscape
Native Nations are working to protect the Bear’s Ears area, a place rich in indigenous history and culture in a landscape of canyons, mesas, arches, red rocks and the Bear’s Ears twin buttes.
This event is sponsored by Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice, Living Rivers, Canyon Country Rising Tide, and Uranium Watch, The film festival and forum is free of charge, but donations are welcome to help cover costs.

7th Annual Grand Canyon Celebration of Art
2015-09-12 - 2015-09-18 | Grand Canyon National Park, Grand Canyon, AZ, United States
The Grand Canyon Association is pleased to present the 7th Annual Celebration of Art. Each year, a group of artists gather at Grand Canyon National Park for the Celebration of Art presented by Grand Canyon Association. Proceeds from the event go toward a fund to establish a permanent art venue at Grand Canyon.
If you are an artist interested in applying to participate in the 2015 Celebration of Art, Please click here to download the Call for Entry & Application.

The Navajo Generating Station: What Lies Ahead?
2015-04-30 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Denver) | Arizona State University – Old Main Carson Ballroom, 400 E. Tyler Street, Tempe, AZ, 85281, United States
Join the Arizona State University Global Institute for Sustainability for a conversation with representatives from the Navajo region, energy field, and policy realm on the complex web of sustainability issues, ranging from environmental protection, social and environmental justice, economic development, as well as water and energy policy, both regional and federal.
The Navajo Generating Station (NGS), the largest coal-fired power plant in the West, provides electrical power to customers in three states and for pumping Colorado River water for the Central Arizona Project (CAP), which delivers water to central and southern Arizona. Recently, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced that the 40 year-old plant, Arizona’s largest single source of carbon pollution, needs to update its pollution controls.
Panelists include:
Mike Pasqualetti

Senior Sustainability Scientist, ASU Global Institute of Sustainability
Professor, ASU School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning

Grant Smedley

Manager, Environmental Policy and Innovation, Salt River Project

Stephen B. Etsitty

Executive Director, Navajo Nation Environmental Protection Agency

Vincent Yazzie

Community Member

Brandon Loomis

Moderator
Environmental Reporter, Arizona Republic

Flagstaff Divestival 2015
2015-02-13 15:00 - 18:00 (America/Denver) | Heritage Square, Flagstaff, AZ, United States
At this event, you will find entertainment, speakers, and multiple organizations sharing information and resources to help people direct money and energy away from Fossil Fuels.
Come together with us to stop investments in companies that are polluting and destroying the planet such as oil and coal companies, by convincing people to drop their personal investments in these companies and support local institutions. Let’s loosen the grip that coal, oil and gas companies have on our government and financial markets.

Rumble on the Mountain
2015-01-24 15:00 - 2015-01-25 00:00 (America/Denver) | The Orpheum Theater, 15 W. Aspen, Flagstaff, AZ, 86001, United States
An evening and night in celebration of water featuring the music of Pato Banton, Casper, Summit Dub Squad, Innastate, Tha Yoties, Sihasin, Twin Rivers and Ed Kabotie…
Speakers from the community and surrounding areas will speak to water issues throughout the day with a conscious message being broadcast live to the world via KUYI Hopi Radio…
It’s a Rumble on the MTN!!!

Sierra Club's Plateau Group General Meeting
2015-01-20 18:30 - 19:15 (America/Denver) | Natural Grocers, 503 W. Clay Avenue, Flagstaff, AZ, 86001, United States
Join the Sierra Club’s Grand Canyon Chapter in Flagstaff for a general meeting about environmental issues in the northern Arizona plateau region.

23rd Annual Navajo Nation Council Inauguration
2015-01-13 09:00 - 14:00 (America/Denver) | Bee Holdzil Fighting Scouts Events Center, Fort Defiance, AZ, United States
“Navajo Leadership – A Sovereign Nation” is the inaugural theme.
Download the full agenda here as a PDF: Inauguration Agenda

Special Session of Navajo Nation Council
2014-12-30 10:00 - 23:00 (America/Denver) | Navajo Nation Council Chambers, Indian Route 100 and Morgan Boulevard, Window Rock, AZ, 86515, United States
Two separate special sessions are scheduled at 10 a.m. on Dec. 23 and Dec. 30 to address pending legislation set to expire at the end of the 2014 calendar year.
This is the second session.
The Naabik’iyátí Committee also will meet the day before each special session at 10 a.m.

Special Session of Navajo Nation Council
2014-12-23 10:00 - 23:55 (America/Denver) | Navajo Nation Council Chambers, Indian Route 100 and Morgan Boulevard, Window Rock, AZ, 86515, United States
Two separate special sessions are scheduled at 10 a.m. on Dec. 23 and Dec. 30 to address pending legislation set to expire at the end of the 2014 calendar year.
The Naabik’iyátí Committee also will meet the day before each special session at 10 a.m.

Bodaway/Gap Chapter House Meeting
2014-12-18 13:00 - 18:00 (America/Denver) | Bodaway/Gap Chapter House, The Gap, AZ, 86020, United States
This is a regular meeting of the Bodaway/Gap Chapter House. No agenda is available, but often important issues regarding the Confluence will pop up with little-to-no notice. Plan on attending.

Sacred Sites Sub-Committee Special Meeting
2014-12-10 09:00 - 23:30 (America/Denver) | Quality Inn, 48 West Highway 264, Window Rock, AZ, 86515, United States
This is a subcommittee of the Navajo Nation Council. Agenda includes the following:
Report and Discussion
from Navajo Nation Historic Preservation on prayer ceremonies by Roland Brown, Roy Lester and Otto Tso. Directly relating to Navajo Mask sale at Eve Auction House in Paris, France.
Presenter; Tony Joe and Timothy Begay, Human Rights Commission.
Discussion by the Human Rights Commission on the Navajo Nation
University of Arizona James E. Roger College of Law, Indigenous Law and Policy Program filing with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights regarding the San Francisco Peaks. Presenter; Leonard Gorman and Rodney L. Tahe, Human Rights Commission.
