VOYAGER LECTURE SERIES

The Rich Ancestry and Traditions of the Shivwits Band

With Karma Grayman

Tuesday, March 25, 7:30pm

Social Hour begins at 6:30pm

The Lorraine Boccardo Theater

This year’s Voyager Lecture Series follows “The History of This Land,” from the deep time studied in geology, through modern concerns related to our changing environment.

During our March lecture, learn about the Southern Paiute Homelands, and specifically about the language, history, and traditions of the Shivwits Band. Karma Grayman is a Shivwits Band educator and culture keeper who teaches weekly Paiute language classes and has contributed to many Shivwits dialect dictionaries, vocabulary card sets, and coloring books for youth, in order to share language and traditions with new generations.

The Shivwits Band of Paiutes is one of several Southern Paiute groups that have lived since time immemorial in the area making up what is now southern Utah, northern Arizona, southern Nevada, and southeastern California. The Shivwits Band has always been known for hunting, fishing, gathering, and for the Shivwits peoples’ close ties to the land. Based on 28,000 acres of Reservation land near Ivins, Utah, the Shivwits Band was first recognized by the government in 1891 and then again in 1941. After being terminated in 1954 along with other Paiute bands, the Shivwits Band’s sovereign status was restored by Congress in 1980.

Learn more at shivwits.org