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Deer Valley Rock Art Center Museum. This list of museums in Arizona encompasses museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
The museum is located in a modern building in Window Rock, Arizona, the capital of the Navajo Nation, [1] next to the Navajo Zoo.It is in the approximate center of a 27,000-square-mile (70,000 km 2) Navajo reservation, about 500 yards (0.46 km) west of Arizona's border with New Mexico.
A map showing the extent of the Hohokam, Mogollon, and Ancestral Puebloan cultures circa 1350 CE. Paleo-Indians are believed to have first settled present-day Arizona at least 13,000 years ago. Clovis spear points have been discovered in several locations along the San Pedro River, including at the Naco and Lehner Mammoth Kill Sites.
The Native Art Market is in Old Town Scottsdale across the street from Gilbert Ortega’s long-established store. About 50 artists signed up to sell their work in the gallery, Rosales said.
Northwest Coast art is the term commonly applied to a style of art created primarily by artists from Tlingit, Haida, Heiltsuk, Nuxalk, Tsimshian, Kwakwaka'wakw, Nuu-chah-nulth and other First Nations and Native American tribes of the Northwest Coast of North America, from pre-European-contact times up to the present.
Art historian Dawn Ades writes, "Far from being inferior, or purely decorative, crafts like textiles or ceramics, have always had the possibility of being the bearers of vital knowledge, beliefs and myths." [51] Recognizable art markets between Natives and non-Natives emerged upon contact, but the 1820–1840s were a highly prolific time.
Western Spirit: Scottsdale’s Museum of the West is located in Old Town Scottsdale, Arizona on the former site of the Loloma Transit Station (N Marshall Way and E 1st St), and opened in January 2015. The two-story, 43,000-square-foot museum features the art, culture and history of 19 states in the American West, Western Canada, and Mexico.
In 1974 the Scottsdale district began rejecting residents of the reservation. In 2000, a total of 1,120 students from the reservation attended Mesa schools. [11] Some time prior to 2000, the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) operated the Salt River tribal school, but it later became tribally controlled. [11]