IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 11/5/07 CONTACT: PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE
SILVER CITY - Sunny Dooley will present Diné (Navajo) Blessingway Stories at the Western New Mexico University Global Resource Center Auditorium on Monday, Nov. 5, 2007 at 7 p.m.
Dooley is from Chi Chil' Tah (Where the Oaks Grow), a community in the Four Corners area and for the last ten years has told her stories throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and Africa. These Origins stories, in Navajo or English, present the worldview of the Diné people and their relationships with their surroundings. They are the social versions of the sacred chants. The stories have been told for generations in her matrilineal clan of the Saltwater People. Dooley is one of the first to translate the stories from her native language to English. She tells Blessingway stories with the blessing of her family, clans, and elders.
This event is sponsored by the New Mexico Humanities Council and the WNMU Millennium III Honors Program. The event is free and open to the public.
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