World Hoop Dance Champion and Navajo Healer Jones Benally to perform and speak at the University of Arizona
When: October 26, 2015
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: Integrated Learning Center 130, UA Campus
Free and Open to the Public
Jones Benally is a leading Hataali (Traditional Healer) of the Dineh (Navajo) tradition from Big Mountain, Arizona. He was awarded the first "Hoop-Dance Legacy Award" by the Heard Museum in Phoenix in 2013 for his training of hundreds of hoop dancers from all over the country. He has danced all over the world as representative of the Dineh nation and Indigenous people. Hataali Benally has been active in the movement to protect sacred sites in Arizona, especially the San Francisco Peaks. As part of his presentation for the University community, Hataali Benally will be performing a hoop dance, along with his son, Clayson.
Sponsored by Religious Studies, School of International Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, in the College of Humanities at the University of Arizona.
For more information, call Julian Kunnie at (520) 621-0017 or Karen Seat at (520) 626-3683.
