ANGELO BACA on the Elders of Bears Ears /63
The Arch canyon area of Bears Ears, by Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
Angelo Baca is a Navajo and Hopi filmmaker, and a PhD candidate in sociocultural anthropology at NYU. A graduate of the Native Voices Program at the University of Washington, he has created numerous documentaries and collaborative works around such subjects as Indigenous food sovereignty, and Indigenous international repatriation. He’s also taught Native American literature and media courses at Brown University. He promotes local participatory research methodology and empowering traditional knowledge keepers.
Angelo Baca
As a documentary film-maker, Angelo has developed digital storytelling projects in close collaboration with Indigenous communities including his latest film, Shash Jaa': Bears Ears which he created in an effort to illuminate the Utah landscape’s significance to Indigenous peoples of the region.
He is the co-president of the Native American and Indigenous Students Group at NYU, assisting in facilitating an Indigenous Studies Program minor at the institution and he is on the selection committee for the Chief Diversity Officer at NYU.
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