UNM-Gallup Professor Keynotes Indigenous Bilingual Education Conference

UNM-Gallup Film Professor and Navajo film producer/director Melissa Henry will give the opening keynote at the fifth annual Regional Indigenous Bilingual Education Conference in Albuquerque, Nov. 8-9. She will present her film, “Horse is my Name,” at the MCM Elegante Hotel and Event Center, Atrium Ballroom at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, Nov. 8.

Henry was recently selected for a Native Initiative Sundance Fellowship for filmmakers. An adjunct lecturer at UNM-Gallup, she has worked on projects with the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian and has made a series of abstract shorts, as well as documentaries.

In addition, Pearl Tate of the UNM Institute for American Indian Education and UNM Language, Literacy and Sociocultural Studies Associate Professor Kathryn Manuelito will participate in a panel titled “Internet to the Hogans and Navajo Language Support” on Friday, Nov. 9, at 8:30 a.m.

Coordinated by the Indigenous Institute for Native Arts, the conference explores a broad range of topics relating to Indigenous bilingual education, including education through the arts, learning strategies, technology, media and astronomy.

For more information visit: Regional Indigenous Bilingual Education Conference.

Media Contact: Sari Krosinsky, (505) 277-1593; e-mail: michal@unm.edu