America's Best Idea - the national parks - is even better when it's free! Mark your calendar for these entrance fee-free* dates in 2017: • September 30: National Public Lands […]
Free Screening with The Mayors of Shiprock
The Heard Museum community invites you to join us in commemorating Indigenous Peoples’ Day with a day of programming dedicated to the Indigenous communities and voices of Arizona. As we celebrate the first full year of recognizing Indigenous Peoples’ Day in the City of Phoenix, we are honored to share with you the cultural richness of Indigenous peoples throughout Indian Country – this year focusing on the power and prominence of Indigenous voices and the preservation of tribal language. Join us and celebrate through dance, music, dialogue, video games, food, art and film.
Kids can earn their Junior Ranger Paleontology Badge, dig for fossils and decorate a Jurassic landscape.
The disturbing legacy of uranium mining on the Navajo Nation is well known to people who live near abandoned mines and mills.
The legacy of uranium mining on the Navajo Nation is well known to people who live near abandoned mines and mills. In 2005, the Nation banned uranium mining and milling on its reservation, and a 20-year ban on new mining claims on public lands adjacent to Grand Canyon is in effect. Yet rising uranium prices, already permitted mines, and thousands of existing claims on other Colorado Plateau lands raise the possibility of yet another uranium boom in our region.
Two years in the making, the film highlights the Riparian ecosystem; plants and animals of one of the last flowing southwestern desert rivers.