Arizona American Indian Tourism Association

09/22/2024

09/20/2024

Whiteriver, Az- Saturday 4pm , Sept 21, 2024.

09/20/2024

Tucson,Az - Sept 21, Saturday

09/18/2024

Fort McDowell, Az- Hello Arizona American Indian Tourism Association Members

We are set for Wed 9/18 quarterly meeting. The meeting will begin at 10am at the We-Ko-Pa Casino Resort, Yo’w Hospitality Suite. If you are unable to attend in person here is a ZOOM invite.

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09/11/2024

09/09/2024

A recent study emphasizes the need for more Native filmmakers, something the Cherokee Nation hopes to accomplish through its new Cherokee Film Institute

09/09/2024

Here is the 2025 AIF planning meeting schedule. The first meeting September 12th, 10am-12pm will be held at the Community Design Studio 7506 E Indian School Rd. Scottsdale. Prior to the meeting we will forward the meeting agenda and information. If you are unable to attend in person a Zoom invite will be included. We look forward to talking to you all an preparing for the Feb 1-2 2025 Az Indian Festival.
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09/06/2024

https://opvp.navajo-nsn.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/76th-Annual-Navajo-Nation-Fair-set-for-Sept.-4-8-for-July-25.pdf

09/04/2024

Thank you, Desert Diamond Casinos and the Tohono O'odham Nation, for sponsoring the November Arizona Indigenous Culinary Experience and Arizona Indigenous Food Symposium. We will also feature a few Tohono O'odham agricultural community organizations at the symposium and two chefs from their restaurants at the culinary tasting event.

The Desert Diamond Casino, owned and operated by the Tohono O’odham Nation, provides four exciting entertainment venues in Southern Arizona: Desert Diamond Casino (Nogales Highway), Desert Diamond Casino (I-19 & Pima Mine Rd), Golden Ha:san Casino (Why, AZ) and Desert Diamond Casino (West Valley).

The casinos are committed to their mission of enhancing the quality of life for the Tohono O’odham Nation and all people in Southern Arizona.

The casinos employ over 1,200 Native American and non-Native American people. They provide crucial funds for vital community services both on and off the Nation and generate millions of dollars in state tax revenue.

Please visit their site to learn more about their enterprise and all the excellent work they do in the community!

http://www.tonation-nsn.gov/desert-diamond-casino/

For information on the culinary events please visit our site @
http://www.arizonaindigenousculinaryexperience.com/

09/03/2024

Sharing the save the date from Cahokia PHX on their Indigenous Peoples Day Phoenix Fest on Friday, October 11, to Monday, October 14 at the Arizona Center in Phoenix.

For more info, visit ipdphx.com

08/24/2024

08/24/2024

Flagstaff Mall, the 13th Annual Hopi Arts & Cultural Festival located near JCPenny, today only until 7pm.

08/24/2024

Supai closed due to major flooding. 🙏🏼 for everyone’s safety.

08/23/2024

Flagstaff, Az- 13th Annual Hopi Arts & Cultural Festival

Happening Tomorrow!!

Get ready for a full day of fun at the 13th Annual Hopi Arts & Cultural Festival. The annual festival will be held on August 24th from 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM at a new location this year: the Flagstaff Mall, which is our proud venue sponsor. The annual event promises to be a celebration of traditional Hopi art and culture, featuring talented artisans presenting pottery, baskets, paintings, jewelry, Kachina dolls, and more. Attendees will also have the opportunity to enjoy traditional Hopi dance performances, raffles, and delicious Hopi frybread. Come join in the fun!

Admission: Free

hopifestival.com

08/23/2024

08/22/2024

Scottsdale, Az~ Here at the Az Governors Conference of Tourism

08/22/2024

Scottsdale, Az- Here at the Az Governors Conference of Tourism.

08/14/2024

From Native cuisine to contemporary art, Scottsdale’s vibrant Indigenous communities will inspire your travels.

08/14/2024

Today is National Navajo Code Talkers Day... Thank you for your service! 🇺🇸
A special thanks to leo.bounds for this photo from the Navajo Code Talkers Memorial in Window Rock, Arizona.

06/11/2024

https://azluminaria.org/2024/06/10/first-ever-coffee-roastery-on-fort-yuma-quechan-land-is-indigenous-from-seed-to-cup/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1iQ3WguM2-olCgtd7SynFqx1ES5zrwT9OP2vIA8u-DaYNLE_w0R6XFuRs_aem_ARZY7Qvg1dK9h8tM4XnLobX660BqMRcnjtjrC8uL5BuyVGqz7F_2XqaOscLjxaJV0JiYTlF2qZtfS5zuOYT45h3S

FORT YUMA-QUECHAN RESERVATION — With an espresso machine sputtering in the background, the barista hands a lunch order over the counter at The Coffee Shop, by Spirit Mountain Roasting Company. It’s approaching 1 p.m. and the new business brewing along the banks of the Colorado River, on the Fort...

05/17/2024

Chesley Goseyun Wilson is the only National Endowment for the ArtsNational Heritage Fellow from near Tucson, Arizona. In 1989 he was awarded this honor for his knowledge, skill, and passion as an Apache Fiddle Maker.

"My fiddle only plays Apache songs."

The NEA National Heritage Fellowships is the nation's highest honor in folk and traditional arts. Each year since 1982, the program recognizes recipients' artistic excellence, lifetime achievement, and contributions to our nation's traditional arts heritage.

Born on the San Carlos Apache Reservation in Arizona, Chesley Goseyun Wilson is a medicine man, singer, dancer, and fiddle maker. The Apache name for the one-stringed fiddle is tsii’edo’a’tl or “wood that sings.” Wilson makes his violins from an agave stalk, using horsehair on the bow, and decorates them with painted and carved symbols important to Apache life. He sings traditional Apache songs that he learned from his father and his uncles, all of whom were prominent medicine singers. “Songs played on these violins include ceremonial songs, social dance songs, love songs, corn beer drinking songs, or free improvisations for one’s own violin,” he said. Through making Apache fiddles and singing the old songs, Wilson strives to keep his tribe’s customs and ceremonies alive.

[ID: Chesley Goseyun Wilson, an Apache man poses in front of a desert with saguaros, holding an Apache fiddle, and wearing a red, ribbon shirt.]

Photo by Tom Pich
https://storymaps.esri.com/stories/heritage-fellows/map/

05/17/2024

📣 AIANTA and collaborative partner Leave No Trace debut educational guide for travelers to responsibly visit Native Nations and communities in the U.S. during National Travel & Tourism Week May 19-25, 2024 ✈

🔗 Read the full press release here: https://bit.ly/LNTnttw24

U.S. Travel Association

05/09/2024

In Memoriam: Terrol Dew Johnson (1973-2024)

With deep sadness, we say goodbye to Tohono O’odham master artist, basket weaver, creative visionary, farmer, and foodways activist, Terrol Dew Johnson, of Sells, Arizona, who passed in his sleep on May 8.

Terrol participated regularly in the annual folklife festival, Tucson Meet Yourself, demonstrating his work in the Tohono O’odham Him Dag:Ki folk arts pavilion. In 2017, Terrol was awarded a Southwest Folklife Alliance Master-Artist Apprentice Award to support his transfer of cultural knowledge and basket weaving to Edward Miguel, the grandson of one of Terrol’s first teachers.

Humble and generous, Terrol was highly regarded and celebrated for his vision and leadership. In 1996 he co-founded Tohono O’odham Community Action (TOCA), a grassroots community organization dedicated to creating positive programs based in the O’odham Himdag or “Way,” where he also served as president and CEO. In 1999, he was named one of America’s Top Ten Young Community Leaders by the Do Something Foundation Award. In 2002, Terrol received the Ford Foundation’s Leadership for a Changing World Award. In 2010, Terrol walked 3000 miles from Maine to Arizona in The Walk Home: A Journey to Native Wellness, to bring awareness to the crisis of diabetes in Indigenous communities and highlight the ways in which reconnecting with cultural traditions can support wellness.

Practiced in traditional O’odham basket weaving, Terrol also used traditional plant materials like bear grass, yucca, devil’s claw, and gourds in experimental and contemporary ways. His artwork won numerous awards including Award in Craft in 2022 from the Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation. In 2023, his collaborative work with Aranda\Lasch was nominated for the Loewe Foundation’s Craft Award and was shown in the Noguchi Museum in New York with the other finalists. Terrol’s art resides in permanent national and international collections including the U.S. Embassy in Paraguay, the MOMA in New York, the Smithsonian Institution’s NMAI, The Heard Museum in Phoenix, AZ, the Art Institute in Chicago, the Denver Museum of Art, and the AZ State Museum.

Thank you, Terrol, for your vision and your action. Rest in peace and power.

“I started weaving contemporary baskets partly out of necessity. When I was 18, I didn’t have a car. When I would run out of material, I would look for other things to either weave with or incorporate—other plant material or sometimes metal and stones and bones and hair. All these things would go into my baskets. … But it’s a Tohono O’odham basket regardless. I’m the weaver. I’m Tohono O’odham. Still, I always try to incorporate a traditional element or material in every piece of non-traditional work I do—yucca, bear grass—just for my sake, to know that this is a basket. This is a Tohono O’odham basket; this is my basket.”

-Terrol Dew Johnson
“What a Basket Can Hold,” BorderLore, September 2020

Steven Meckler Photography

05/04/2024

🍿🎬Watch the Navajo version of Star Wars: A New Hope. Saturday | May 4 | Diné Event Center at Twin Arrows.

Doors open at 5PM: Meet and greet with the voice actors of the movie. Terry Teller/ Luke Skywalker, Clarissa Yazzie/Princess Leia, Geri Hongeva/C3PO and James Bilagody/ General Tarkin.

Movie starts at 6PM: Enjoy complimentary popcorn, candy and soda. All are welcome, including families and kids! Seating is limited, bring your own blankets and comfy seating options.

🦸COSPLAY Encouraged🦸‍♀️