REQUEST A SPEAKER FOR YOUR GROUP!

Amerind's Director and Chief Curator are available to speak to your organization. Following is information about both, and depending on the date, one of them will be pleased to offer a presentation.  

 

John Ware

 Dr. John Ware is a fourth-generation Arizonan. He is an anthropologist and archaeologist whose research and teaching focus on the prehistory and ethnohistory of the northern Southwest, where he has worked for nearly 40 years. Ware earned his PhD in anthropology from the University of Colorado in 1983 and has taught anthropology at Southern Illinois University, the College of Santa Fe, and Colgate University in New York. In addition to teaching, Ware has held research positions at the Museum of Northern Arizona, Arizona State Museum, and the School of American Research, and he was director of the Laboratory of Anthropology in Santa Fe. Since 2001 Ware has served as executive director of the Amerind Foundation.        eric3

  

 Dr. Eric J. Kaldahl is a Registed Professional Archaeologist who has participated in archaeological projects in east-central and southern Arizona, Nebraska, Missouri, and Illinois. He has worked for Old Pueblo Archaeology Center of Tucson and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of Anthropology & Geography. Most recently he worked for the Tohono O'odham Nation government as a curator for the tribe's new Cultural Center & Museum. He became Amerind Foundation's Chief Curator in October 2007.

 

These are just some of the topics the speakers can address:

  • Southeast Arizona archaeology including Native American and Spanish archaeological sites from ancient Clovis times (11,000 B.C.) through Spanish Colonial period (AD 100s-1800s). 
  • Southwest Migrations through the Centuries from earliest times up to today. 
  • History of the Amerind Foundation - the development of the foundation (established 1937) and it's contribution to understanding the history of Native people in Arizona, New Mexico, and Chihuahua Mexico.  

We would be glad to talk with you about other topics that might work well with your particular group - just put a note in the comments box below. 

 

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