Leigh Kuwanwisima (lee koo-wahn-we-see-mah)
culture preservationist
IMAGE SOURCE: Grand Canyon Trust. “The Voices of Grand Canyon.” storymaps.arcgis.com. | TEXT SOURCE: ”New World Rising.” Native America. PBS. 2018.
QUOTE CONTEXT: “Native Americans create a way of life that is both a scientific understanding of nature and a spiritual quest to find their place within it...The ideas that built Native America are still here, alive in the land and the people.”
QUOTE QUESTION: Who passed down your People’s life philosophy?
IMAGE CONTEXT: “Hopi, I believe, is really among the oldest of ancient cultures here in North America. Our history goes back to creation.”
IMAGE QUESTION: When you look up and away, what do you see?
MEDIA LITERACY CONTEXT: The quote is from a public television series. The image is from a nonprofit organization dedicated to land preservation.
MEDIA LITERACY QUESTION: What media forms and producers lend themselves to sharing your People’s wisdom and inheritance?
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