PUBLIC HUMANITIES NOW: NEW VOICES NEW DIRECTIONS SERIES – Jim Enote

“The Endowed Authority of Indigenous Curation”

Jim Enote is a Zuni tribal member, CEO of the Colorado Plateau Foundation, and serves on the boards of the Trust for Mutual Understanding and the Grand Canyon Trust. Jim’s service the past forty years includes assignments for organizations including UNESCO, UNDP, International Secretariat for Water, Nordic Council of Ministers, Tibet Child Nutrition Project, the Mountain Institute, National Geographic Society, US Bureau of Indian Affairs, US National Park Service, and the Zuni Tribe. In 2010 while serving as the director of the A:shiwi A:wan Museum, Jim was awarded the first Ames Prize for Innovative Museum Anthropology during the American Anthropological Association’s annual conference. In 2013 he received the Guardian of Culture and Lifeways Award from the Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums, and in 2016 received the Hewett Award for leadership and service to the New Mexico museum community and achievements in the museum field.