Professor of Applied Indigenous Studies Email: octaviana.trujillo@nau.edu Yaqui, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Arizona State University - 1991
Research InterestNative Language policy and literacy development, American Indian education Dr. Octaviana V. Trujillo has worked over the past three decades in the area of educational program development for Indigenous Peoples. She was the founding Director of the American Indian Graduate Center at the University of Arizona, where she later was Assistant Professor in the Department of Language, Reading and Culture and affiliated faculty with American Indian Studies. In 1994, Dr. Trujillo became the first woman to become chairman of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona. During her tenured leadership, she established the first department of education for the Tribal Nation and
shepherded state and national legislation. Dr. Trujillo subsequently served at Arizona State University as Director of the Center for Indian Education and editor of the Journal of American Indian Education, the nation’s longest continually published refereed research journal on Native education. During her tenure there, she secured extramural research funding that quadrupled ASU’s Native education research, preparation of Native teachers and graduate students for the professorate. She served as the principal investigator of US Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI) funded Native educator’s research project, Native Educators: Interface with Culture and Languages in Schooling, to explicate the programmatic elements within diverse teacher preparation programs that prepare Native pre-servce teachers to effectively situate their teaching within the cultural context of their students’ lives. Her interest in peace and human rights advocacy has included work in the Middle East, Mexico, Northern Ireland, Colombia, Ecuador and Bolivia. Dr. Trujillo is the founding chair of the Applied Indigenous Studies Department at Northern Arizona University. She is principal investigator of the National Science Foundation grant, Research Collaborative: Native Science Curriculum. Her work on Yaqui ethnohistory and laguage policy has produced work in three languages and includes publications Hiapsi Wami Seewam: Flowers of Life and The Yaqui: A People and Their Place. Most recently, she has worked with the United Nations and US Department of State, Fulbright Program with Indigenous Peoples human rights and leadership development. Selected Publications
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§ Trujillo,
O. V., (2007). Sacred Sites and Urban Landscapes, Proceedings of UN Habitat
Expert Meeting on International Expert
Group Meeting on Urban Indigenous Peoples and Migration. Santiago, Chile.
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§ Trujillo,
O. V., Monti, L.., & Jarratt-Ziemski, K. (2006). The sacred sites and
gathering grounds initiative: Strategies for protecting traditional native
places on federal, state, and private lands, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Conserving Cultural and
Biological Diversity: The Role of Sacred Natural Sites and Cultural
Landscapes.(pp. 126-128, 312) Tokyo,
Japan, May 30-June 2, 2005, France: UNESCO, Division of Ecological and Earth
Science.
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§ Trujillo,
O. V., (2005). A report on the status
of American Indians and Alaskan Natives in Education: Historical legacy to
cultural empowerment, Monograph Series, National Education Association,
Washington DC.
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§ Trujillo,
O. V. (2005). Reclaiming American Indian studies, Wicazo Sa Review: A Journal of Native American Studies, Special
Issue on Colonization & Decolonization, 20 (1), 189-197.
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§ Trujillo,
O. V. (2005). Sovereignty of indigenous education: Our voice in Native
language, culture and literacy, Proceedings
of Annual National Conference on Race & Ethnicity in American Higher
Education, New York, NY.
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§ Trujillo,
O. V. et al. (2004). An enduring people:
The Yaqui community of Scottsdale, Arizona. City of Scottsdale Press.
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§ Trujillo,
O. V. (2004). Contributor, personal reflections in lifeways In Wilma
Mankiller, Every Day is a Good Day:
Reflections bt Contemporary Indigenous Women, (pp. 27-28, 61, 93, 107,
137, 162-163, 210). Golden, Colorado: Fulcrum Publishing.
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§ Trujillo,
O. V. (2004). Yaqui traditional knowledge: Our voice in the desert, Proceedings of A Public Forum on
Knowledge, Community and the Desert, Charles Darwin University, Araluen
Centre, Alice Springs, Australia.
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§ Reyhner,
J., Trujillo, O. V. et al. (Eds.) (2003). Nurturing
Native languages. Flagstaff, Arizona: Northern Arizona University.
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§ Trujillo,
O. V. et al. (2003). Native educators: Interface with culture and language in
schooling, ISB4: Proceedings of the 4th
International Symposium on Bilingualism, Somerville, MA: Cascadilla
Press.
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§ Trujillo,
O. V. (2001). El trilingualismo Yaqui: Cómo aborda un pueblo indígena el
desarollo del lenguaje y la alfabetización, Horizontes: Revista de Encuentro entre Sonora y Arizona, 6 (12),
26-44.
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§ Trujillo,
O. V. (2001). Yaqui cultural and linguistic evolution through a history of
urbanization. In S. Lobo & K. Peters (Eds.), American Indians and the Urban Experience, (pp. 49-70). Walnut
Creek, California: Altamira Press.
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§ Trujillo,
O. V. & Shepherd, J. P. (1999). An enduring voice in American Indian
education: The Arizona State University Center for Indian Education. Journal
of American Indian Education, 38
(3), 19-33.
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§ Trujillo,
O. V. (1998). The Yaqui of Guadalupe, Arizona: A century of cultural survival
through trilingualism. American Indian
Culture and Research Journal, 22 (4), 67-88.
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§ Trujillo,
O. V. (1998). [Review of the book A
good Cherokee, a good anthropologist: Papers in honor of Robert K. Thomas].
Journal of American Indian Education,
37, 34-36.
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§ Trujillo,
O. V. (1997). A tribal approach to language and literacy in a trilingual
setting. In J Reyhner (Ed.), Teaching
Indigenous Languages (pp. 10-21). Flagstaff, Arizona: Northern Arizona
University.
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§ Trujillo,
O. V. (1996). Double edged sword. In Women
Who Don’t Sell Out, L. Fulani (Ed.), pp. 152-157. New York, NY: Castillo
International.
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§ Trujillo,
O. V. (1995). Hiapsi Wami Seewam:
Flowers of Life, Phoenix, AZ: Atlatl.
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§ Trujillo,
O. V. (1992). Guadalupe: Conflict and civil rights in a tricultural setting.
In G. Bataille (Ed.), Martin Luther
King: Living the Dream, pp. 21-25. Tempe, AZ.
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§ Trujillo,
O. V. et al. (1991). Multicultural
Setting, Arts Programming and Community Involvement, Scope, Arizona
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, Volume 91, Number 3.
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§ Trujillo,
O. V. et al. (1983). The Yaqui: A
People and Their Place, Arizona Humanities Council, Pueblo Grande Museum,
Phoenix, Arizona.
Curriculum and Educational Materials Developed
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Yoeme
archival project for language and the arts
Consultant
to Arts Genesis production, 2009.
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Study
for Determining the Intervention of the Ford Foundation in Relation to
Indigenous Peoples in the World
Consultant
report to the Ford Foundation Indigenous Issues committee, 2008.
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Native
Nations: Standing Together for Civil Rights
Film
consultant and interviewee for Native Americans and B & B production,
2008.
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Policy
Guide to Housing for Indigenous Peoples
UN
Habitat for a Better Urban Future, 2007.
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Migration
and Indigenous Peoples in Cities
UN
Habitat, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, 2007.
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The
Power of Native Teachers: Language and Culture in the Classroom
Center
for Indian Education, Arizona State University, 2006.
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Homeland:
Four Portraits of Native Action-Curriculum Guide
National
Foundation for the Improvement of Education, developed for secondary
education and Tribal Colleges, 2005.
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Bridging
Institutions of Higher Education and American Indian Nations in Arizona, A
Position Paper of Arizona Tri-Universities for Indian Education
US
Department of Education, Grant # P116B010627 (2000-2005), 2004.
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Sacred Sites and Gathering Grounds:
Toolkit for Cultural Resource managers
Christensen Fund, 2004.
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Draft
Declaration on Indigenous Peoples Human Rights Geneva working group
Report
to the American Friends Service Committee, National Relations Committee and
Native American Task Force, 2002.
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Indigenous
Peoples of South America
Report
to American Friends Service Committee, Latin American Panel and Native
American Task Force on the local human rights situation, Cauca Indigenous
Rights Council and the Indigenous Peoples Alliance of Ecuador, 1997.
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Social
and Educational Development of Tribal-Based Communities of the Sonoran and
Negev Deserts
Final
Report to US Department of Health and Human Services, University of Arizona,
Tucson, AZ, 1995.
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A
Blueprint for Success: Community Mobilization for Dropout Prevention
National
Foundation for the Improvement of Education, developed at Johnson Foundation
Wingspread Conference Center, Racine, Wisconsin, Spring 1987.
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A Varied
People-Arizona Indians
Arizona
Department of Education, Indian Education Unit, Working Committee, Phoenix,
AZ, 1986.
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Culture:
A Way to Reading
Instructional
guide for teachers working with Yaqui students, Tempe School District, Tempe,
AZ, 1979.
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Yaqui
History
Filmstrip,
Tempe School District, Tempe, AZ, 1978.
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Los
Pueblos Yaquis
Filmstrip,
Tempe School District, Tempe, AZ, 1977.
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Life
Along the Yaqui River
Filmstrip,
Tempe School District, Tempe, AZ, 1977.
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Nuestra
Herencia
Slide
show, Yaqui Headstart, Guadalupe, AZ, 1976.
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