Photograph by Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert
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En route to Moencopi
Published January 8, 2012 Hopi photography Leave a CommentTags: Hopi, Hopi photography, Moencopi, Moenkopi, Munqapi, Navajo Nation, Nikon D60, southwest landscape, southwest photos, U.S. Route 89
Screening BEYOND THE MESAS at Upper Moencopi
Published September 20, 2010 Films , Hopi education , Hopi films , Hopi scholarship , Phoenix Indian School , Screenings , Sherman Institute Leave a CommentTags: Beyond the Mesas, documentaries, history of Indian education, Honanie, Hopi, Hopi culture, Hopi films, Hopi history, Hopi Reservation, Indian boarding schools, Moencopi, Moenkopi, Native American films, Native American history, off-reservation Indian boarding schools, Sakiestewa, Sherman Indian High School, Sherman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Upper Moencopi
Photograph by Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert
On Saturday September 18, 2010, I had a special opportunity to screen BEYOND THE MESAS and give a presentation to my family at the village of Upper Moencopi’s Community Center. The screening and presentation were part of the Sakiestewa/Honanie Annual Family Reunion. About 60 people attended the event.
I have screened BEYOND THE MESAS at several universities in the United States, and I have shown it at other locations on the Hopi Reservation, but this was the first time the documentary was screened at Upper Moencopi. The film was well received and it led into a discussion on the benefits and negative consequences of Hopi attendance at off-reservation Indian boarding schools.
After the screening I passed out student case files that I collected at the National Archives in Laguna Niguel, California (now located in Perris, California). The files belong to members of the Sakiestewa and Honanie families who attended Sherman Institute or the Phoenix Indian School from 1906 to the 1940s. Most of the files included school applications, report cards, and handwritten and typed letters.
As a Hopi professor at the University of Illinois I am thankful for the opportunities that I have to bring my research back to the Hopi community. This has always been a driving force behind my work.
Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert
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