On Saturday, May 26 from 1–2 p.m. at the Museum of Northern Arizona, The Zuni Origin Storywill be presented by Curtis Quam, Museum Technician for the A:shiwi A:wan Museum and Heritage Center.
Quam’s presentation will focus on A:shiwi (Zuni) beliefs about his people’s emergence from Mother Earth within the Grand Canyon and their migration through the Colorado Plateau to Halona: Idiwana’a (Zuni, New Mexico).
Quam will discuss European contact at the ancestral A:shiwi village of Hawikku, post contact history, and the arrival of Americans to Zuni land. The influence of ethnographers, anthropologists, and archaeologists on A:shiwi life will also be discussed, using images from the Zuni museum’s exhibit Hawikku: Echoes From Our Past.
Curtis Quam was born and raised at Zuni, New Mexico and has been working for the A:shiwi A:wan Museum and Heritage Center for the past five years, where he has been involved with museum programs that serve the Zuni community.