Traditions and Cultures
A Journey In Navajo land: Healing, Myth, and Ceremony

GINTD 6046: 3 Credits

Graduate and undergraduate credit available

A field experience for multi-cultural educators, performing artists, and students of cultural and religious studies.

This course is a seven-day field experience on the Diné (Navajo) reservation, where students will obtain a first-person orientation to the indigenous integration of medicine and spirituality. We will experience a worldview which includes traditional healers, apprentices, myths, and rituals. Our time in Navajo Country will be spent in discussion with the Diné, visiting ancient Anasazi ruins, and studying healing ceremonies as we travel through the reservation’s buttes, mesas, and dirt highways.

Frank Trocco, Associate Professor
Lesley University
(617) 349-8588, ftrocco@lesley.edu