The Photography of Milton Snow and the Legacies of Livestock Reduction: Community-Based Exhibition Praxis at the Navajo Nation Museum

Join us for a panel discussion with Dr. Jennifer Nez Denetdale (Diné), Clarenda Begay (Diné), and Lillia McEnaney, who will discuss the exhibition and related book,  Nihinaaldlooshii doo nídínééshgóó k’ee’ąą yilzhish dooleeł”/ Our Livestock Will Never Diminish: The Photography of Milton Snow and the Legacies of Livestock Reduction.

The exhibition to be discussed is now open at the Navajo Nation Museum in Window Rock, AZ, and explores the intersecting histories of US Indian Commissioner John Collier’s livestock reduction programs with the legacy of Milton Snow’s photography. Addressing themes of community and kinship, nation and democracy, gender and patriarchy, and refusal and resistance, this exhibition features over 60 photographs alongside interpretive text shaped by Diné artists, scholars, and community members.

The exhibition was curated by Dr. Jennifer Nez Denetdale (Diné) and Clarenda Begay (Diné), in community with project manager Lillia McEnaney. An accompanying volume of the same title–co-edited by Denetdale and McEnaney–is forthcoming with the University of New Mexico Press.

Located in the John Gaw Meem room with limited seating.

Free admission-bottled water only please.

Image credit: “Navajo Tribal ram herd in District 17,” November 16, 1943. Digital reproduction of gelatin silver print. Milton Snow Photography Collection, Navajo Nation Museum, NN7-42.Digitization courtesy of Ramona Emerson (Diné), Reel Indian Pictures, LLC. Image courtesy of the Navajo Nation Museum, Window Rock, Arizona