The Office of the State Historian Scholars Program Lecture, co-sponsored by the Center for Southwest Research, presents "At Home on the Front End: Intimate Cartographies and Military Industry on the Navajo Nation,” a lecture by Traci Voyles in the Willard Reading Room, Zimmerman Library on Wednesday, Oct. 15 at 4 p.m.
Photo: Traci Voyles
Voyles, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California-San Diego, will lecture on the history of uranium mining and its affect on the Navajo Nation. She argues that the Defense Minerals Exploration Administration and the Atomic Energy Commission used knowledge of Navajo land and its minerals, politics, culture, economic systems and ecological traditions to launch an era of military industrialization during the uranium booms of the 20th and 21st centuries.
The lecture chronicles the history of U.S.-Navajo relations as well as the militarization of the U.S. Southwest that took place during World War II and the Cold War.
The Office of the State Historian works to foster and facilitate an appreciation and understanding of New Mexico history and culture through education, research, preservation and community outreach. The Center for Southwest Research, part of University Libraries, supports teaching and research on New Mexico, the Southwest, Mexico and Latin America.
The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Dennis P. Trujillo, Office of the State Historian, (505) 476-7998 or dennis.trujillo@state.nm.us.
Media Contact: Karen Wentworth, (505) 277-5627; e-mail: kwent2@unm.edu