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Southwestern Anthropology: the Lives and Legacies of Omer Stewart and Joe Ben Wheat

Southwestern Anthropology: the Lives and Legacies of Omer Stewart and Joe Ben Wheat was addressed by Dr. Deward Walker and Dr. Stephen Lekson on Wednesday October 26, 2011 at CU-Boulder Libraries.

Omer Stewart, cultural anthropologist, social activist, and founder of the Department of Anthropology is most famously known for combating racism, defending the use of peyote in the Native American Church, and serving as an expert witness in defense of American Indian land claims.

Joe Ben Wheat, archaeologist, teacher, and first Curator of Anthropology at CU-Boulder's Museum of Natural History, excavated Paleo-Indian and Ancestral Pueblo archeological sites and devised a pioneering classification system for southwestern textiles.

Dr. Deward Walker, Ph.D., University of Oregon, 1964, came to the University of Colorado Boulder in 1969, where he has conducted research with tribes of the Plains, Northwest, Great Basin, and Southwest. He has more than 200 publications among some two dozen Tribes and several Hispanic populations of western North America dealing with ethnography, ethnohistory, archaeology, historical linguistics, and applied research, including investigations of Tribal health, education, criminal justice practices, environmental impact assessments, and natural and cultural resources. He is well-known for his editorship of the Plateau Volume of the Smithsonian's Handbook of North American Indians and for his editorship of several leading journals in applied anthropology and in the Northwest. Like Omer Stewart, he has frequently served as an expert witness in cases concerning American Indian religious freedom, Tribal land claims, treaty-reserved rights, and rights of American Indian prisoners. He is currently engaged in research in the Great Basin and Plateau.

Dr. Stephen Lekson, Ph.D., University of New Mexico, 1988, is Professor of Anthropology and Curator of Archeology at the CU Museum of Natural History. His fieldwork has been in the Mogollon and Ancestral Pueblo regions of the Southwest. His principal interests are human geography, built environments, government, museums and interpretation, and archaeology's role in American and global intellectual life. Lekson's current research projects focus on the Mimbres region in southern New Mexico and the Yellow Jacket site, a large Mesa Verde site excavated by Joe Ben Wheat.

This event was inspired by an exhibit about Stewart and Wheat in Norlin Library.