About
Brandt specializes in collaborative work with Native American communities in the U.S. Southwest.
She has worked in the New Mexican Pueblo communities of Taos, Picuris, Sandia, Isleta,
San Felipe, and Zia in the areas of land use, environmental protection, sacred site protection,
traditional cultural properties, land claims, educational programs, and programs of language
renewal. She has also worked in the area with the Navajo, the Western Apache, and the
Yavapai. Her training is in sociocultural anthropology and linguistics. She also works with
Spanish colonial history using primary texts on the Pueblos and oral history with
commmunities. She teaches courses in linguistics, ethnographic methods, the Southwest,
and gender. Much of her research is strongly focused to applied community needs and
environmental issues. She is an advisory board member of American Indian Studies and a
faculty affiliate of Women's Studies.
Her current work is with the community of Picuris in northern New Mexico on land use. Also
she and Keith Kintigh are working with the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation in an initial project which
has two components: one an ethnographic study of on- and off- reservations sites of cultural
significance to the Nation; second, a detailed review of all archaeological sites on reservation.
These site types and locations will assist the Nation in cultural site protection, avoidance of
damage to sites as the Nation develops addtional infrastructure, housing, and business
locations, and responses to NAGPRA notices. In addition, she and Henry Walt (adjunct faculty),
and Hartman Lomawaima (Director of the Arizona State Museum) are working with the elders of
the Pueblo of Isleta to develop a community-based exhibit on the Pueblo in the 19th century
which will later travel to other museums.
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Contact:
Elizabeth A. Brandt
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