{"id":39141,"date":"2015-10-02T08:18:28","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T15:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=39141"},"modified":"2015-10-02T09:34:16","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T16:34:16","slug":"nau-honors-the-late-hopi-elder-bob-lomadafkie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/nau-honors-the-late-hopi-elder-bob-lomadafkie\/","title":{"rendered":"NAU honors the late Hopi elder Bob Lomadafkie"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bob Lomadafkie,<\/strong>\u00a0the late Hopi elder who spent the past decade improving the learning experience for NAU\u2019s Native American students, will be honored at 5:30 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 7, at the Native American Cultural Center.<\/p>\n

Lomadafkie, who died in May, was one of NAU\u2019s first traditional knowledge scholars and served as a Native American community liaison, advocate and mentor.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn addition to being a cultural conduit for Native American students throughout campus, he spent many hours in the classroom sharing his traditional knowledge with students from many backgrounds, providing insights difficult to glean from a standard university curriculum,\u201d said Chad Hamill<\/strong>, associate professor and Applied Indigenous Studies chair.<\/p>\n

Lomadafkie graduated from NAU in 1972 with a bachelor of fine arts degree and was often invited as a guest lecturer at colleges across the country. For more than 40 years, he was active in northern Arizona, promoting Native American programs and social issues.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was at the forefront of establishing the Native American Community Action organization, providing much needed advocacy, social services and health needs in Flagstaff,\u201d said Octaviana Trujillo<\/strong>, professor and founding member of NAU\u2019s Applied Indigenous Studies Department.<\/p>\n

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Lomadafkie, left, with NAU students in 2006 at the International Indigenous Cultural Exchange in Sonora, Mexico. Octaviana Trujillo pictured right.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cBob was very popular because he was very enthusiastic and had a wealth of knowledge about the Hopi, certainly, and about current events,\u201d Trujillo said. \u201cHe cared a lot about Native American community health and creating a strong sense of identity.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Bob Lomadafkie,\u00a0the late Hopi elder who spent the past decade improving the learning experience for NAU\u2019s Native American students, will be honored at 5:30 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 7, at the Native American Cultural Center. Lomadafkie, who died in May, was one of NAU\u2019s first traditional knowledge scholars and served as a Native American community liaison,…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":39142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1044,1045],"class_list":["post-39141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-happenings","tag-bob-lomadafkie-tribute","tag-nau-applied-indigenous-studies-program"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}