: The Hopi Child . Wayne Dennis.

Hopi Hoekstra

You are a Curator of Mammals, what does a Mammal Curator do? I head the mammal collection at Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ). The collection comprises specimens collected as early as the 1830s, the red squirrel series collected by Louis Agassiz (one of Darwin’s biggest foes), and hundreds of type specimens, including that of Gorilla gorilla. I have a terrific staff that looks afte...

Dennis W

It has been more than 20 years since Dr. Mattie Hendrick, a veterinary pathologist at the University of Pennsylvania, published her article titled “Postvaccinal sarcomas in the cat: Epidemiology and electron probe microanalytical identification of aluminum” in Cancer Research, first linking vaccination to sarcoma development (1). Dr. Hendrick initially brought her concerns to the forefront in 1...

Health of the Navajo-Hopi Indians.

Wayne Wakeland: Metamodeling

This paper suggests a technique for improving the conceptual-ization of models. The key aspect of this technique is to set aside the main model for a period of time during the model conceptualization process and focus on building a "watchdog" submodel. The primary purpose of the watchdog submodel is to assure that the main model remains internally consistent during its operation. In the experie...

Mapping the Hopi Landscape for Cultural Preservation

For the Hopi people, named places on the landscape localize, commemorate, and transmit traditional knowledge within a spatial context used to reference and explain Hopi history and culture—geographic information the Hopi Tribe seeks to preserve. This paper discusses the Hopi Cultural Preservation Office’s use of geospatial technologies during recent collaborative efforts to document important p...