Flagstaff City-Coconino County East Public Library — You’re invited to our Cultural Property Panel Discussion on Sept. 29

• Mowana Lomaomvaya: Mowana L. Lomaomvaya is from the Hopi Tribe, from the village of Hotevilla. She earned a Bachelor and Master of Arts in anthropology with an emphasis in archaeology from Northern Arizona University, and a Master of Legal Studies with a concentration in Indigenous Peoples’ Law and Policy from The University of Arizona. She is a Research Specialist in the Archaeological Records Office at the Arizona State Museum.

• Ora Marek-Martinez: As the Associate Vice President of the Office of Native American Initiatives within the Native American Cultural Center, Dr. Marek-Martinez’s work includes supporting and ensuring the success of NAU Native American and Indigenous students through Indigenized programming and services to meet the unique needs of our students. As an Assistant Professor in the NAU Anthropology Department, her research interests include Indigenous archaeology and Indigenous Heritage management, including research and approaches that utilize ancestral knowledge and storytelling in the creation of archaeological knowledge. Her current research focuses on a Flagstaff Indigenous Heritage Trail project, and an ethnographic research project on Indigenous archaeology that will contribute to the efforts in our discipline to move archaeology beyond its colonial origin. Dr. Marek-Martinez is also a founding member of the Indigenous Archaeology Collective.

• Sara Guzman: Sara Guzman is a Diné-Xicana Archivist for the Tohono O’odham Nation Cultural Center & Museum. She obtained her Master’s Degree from the University of Arizona’s School of Information Resources & Library Science as a Knowledge River Scholar in Cohort 12. As an Indigenous tribal archivist and Knowledge-River scholar she is dedicated to the preservation of the cultural and historical heritage of tribal communities and providing information services to rural Indigenous communities.

• Peter Bungart: Peter has been a practicing archaeologist & anthropologist in the Southwest for 40 years. He has worked in various national parks and forests, as well as for several tribal nations, including the Hualapai, Navajo, Hopi, and Yavapai Apache. He was most recently the Tribal Historic Preservation Officer for the Hualapai Tribe, a position he left in 2021.

• Donovan Pete: Donovan Pete (Diné) is the supervisor for the Navajo Nation Library and has a Masters in Library and Information Science and a second Masters degree in Linguistics focusing on Native American Languages. He has over 5 years of direct work experience in the field of Library Science including as a Project Archivist and Technical and Research Fellow at the Museum of Indian Art and Culture.

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