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This project is site-specific to the Phoenix Indian School at Steel Indian School Park. I currently visit the old Phoenix Indian School location, walk the land, and document the old boarding school location and its three remaining buildings. I retrace and document this walking/memory experience through ﬁeld binaural recordings, video, photography, and GPS mapping tools/apps. This is a public site-specific sound walk holding a digital memory of my daily walks during the COVID-19 pandemic. The project aims to activate Indigenous perspectives and dialogue about connecting to the Land and Place using the body, digital technology, audio mapping, and locative media.

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NEXT WORLD
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"Next World" is a personal video project about the revitalization and loss of the Dine' language. The reality of fluent indigenous speakers declines every year and aﬀects the future of our language(s). In my family, there are a few people who speak our language and I understand a little when it is spoken to me. My daughter has not had the opportunity to learn her language which makes this project about language recovery a broader commitment to keeping our language and culture alive. In this video, I share Dine' words that I struggle to pronounce juxtaposed with thoughts through English text in an eﬀort to share the potential, diversity, and vibrancy in reclaiming language.

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