White Mesa Community Meetings (2023-2024)
Malcolm Lehi talking about honoring the community and elders by telling our stories for the youth to learn about our history.
White Mesa Community Center is where many community meetings about the 100 Years of Silence Project were being held over a year since Spring of 2023 to Spring of 2024.
A front shot of the first community meeting back in spring of 2023.
Chairman Malcolm Lehi talking about the historical importance of this group’s discussion of the Posey history and the events of 100 years ago emphasizing healing.
Each community meeting was met with a meal and giving of thanks with prayer to have community and elders together.
Malcolm Lehi and Gavin Noyes helping to organize and inform the early community meetings at White Mesa.
White Mesa community gathering on the anniversary in 2023 on Ute allotment lands
Ute Cultural Leader, Terry Knight, and Malcolm Lehi encouraging the community to speak out and tell each other the stories of Posey and the Ute people.
Larry J. Echo Hawk (Pawnee) is an American attorney, legal scholar, and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, Echo Hawk served under U.S. President Barack Obama as the United States Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs from 2009 to 2012. He presently serves as special counsel and advisor to the Governor and to the Attorney General of the State of Utah for Indian affairs. He talks about his visit to a White Mesa Community Meeting.
Local historian Stan Bronson is writing a book that contains much history of the Ute communities, their families, and relationships of older generations and he shares some of this work in anticipation of the 100 Years or Silence project.