Join us as we learn from the owner of DX Beef and The DX Ranch, Kelsey Ducheneaux (Cheyenne River Sioux), and how her passion to help consumers reconnect with their food source led to building DX Beef into a Native Agritourism Ecosystem and how sharing her skills and culture with guests resulted in DX Ranch.

Located on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation, The DX Ranch is surrounded by the vast prairie of nature, culture and opportunity. Kelsey works to connect consumers with the landscape that the Lakota stewards have maintained for millennia. The culture, tradition and story of the DX Beef industry is affixed alongside that of the ranch and their products.

The DX Ranch operates vacation-stays for guests in Kelsey’s two bunkhouses. Guests choose the experiences they want, from horseback riding lessons to trail rides though the waving grass and rolling hills of her ranch, or rolling up their sleeves and helping with repairing fencing, sorting cattle and other ranching chores. Creating an additional revenue stream for the ranch, Kelsey also sells her custom beadwork through DX Designs.

Presenter:

Kelsey Ducheneaux (Cheyenne River Sioux), owner of DX Ranch and DX Beef, is a fourth-generation tribal rancher that calls the Cheyenne River Sioux Nation home. DX Ranch provides ranch vacation-stays for guests. DX Beef, LLC is a direct-to-consumer regenerative beef operation. Kelsey is the Natural Resources Director for the Intertribal Agriculture Council, a national non-profit organization that promotes the use of Indian lands for the benefit of Indian peoples. Kelsey serves her community in many ways, from Board President of Four Bands Community Development Financial Institution, to State Committee Member for South Dakota Farm Service Agency. She was awarded the Bill and Melinda Gates Millennium Scholarship in 2011.

Join AIANTA in partnership with the National Park Service and the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail for a one-hour webinar on how geotourism can benefit tribal tourism development initiatives.

This webinar will explore the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail’s Geotourism Plan and its inclusion of tribes. Guest speakers will dive into the history of tribal tourism along the trail and showcase how cultural sites are attracting visitors. Inspired by the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial and the Circle of Tribal advisors, tribal leaders have partnered with local tourism industry leaders. The Confluence Project, which uses indigenous voices to connect the history, ecology and living cultures along the Trail in the Columbia River Gorge, will illustrate the success of these efforts.

Panelists/Speakers

Bruce Rettig (host) is a writer/photographer for AIANTA and is working on the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail project. He is an award-winning author who has worked with many tribal communities and organizations, including Nevada’s Indian Territory.

Dan Wiley is the Senior Manager, Integrated Resources Stewardship for the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail, National Park Service;

Ann McCormack is the Economic & Community Development Planner for the Nez Perce Tribe. She was involved with the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Commemoration from 2003-2006.

Colin Fogarty is the Executive Director of Confluence. He works to protect cultural, natural and recreational resources of the Trail.

AIANTA is happy to welcome celebrated architect JohnPaul Jones (Oklahoma Choctaw/Cherokee), the visionary behind such projects as the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian (Washington D.C.), the Agua Caliente Cultural Museum (Palm Springs, Calif., pictured above) and the Institute of American Indian Arts (Santa Fe, N.M.).

Mr. Jones will discuss his approach to Native American planning and design centered around the Four Worlds. The presentation will explore tribal tourism development including the Native Natural World, Animal World, Spirit World and the Native Human World: “We are people of our places and natural landscapes, and we know everything from the beauty or our land, we know the dirt, water, air, sky, seasons, plants – and we have good stories to tell about each area.

This webinar is presented as part of a partnership-based project between the Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail and AIANTA to tell the stories and to develop a tribal place name map of the Southern Arizona, Southern California, Central California and Northern California tribes associated with the trail.

Speakers:

Naomi L. Torres, Superintendent, Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail

Johnpaul Jones, FAIA. Jones and Jones Architects, Landscape Architects and Planners

During this one-hour webinar, AIANTA will moderate a panel discussing steps that destinations and businesses can take to plan for reopening, while maintaining the safety of their communities.

Panelists:

Melvin Juanico, Operations Manager, Sky City Cultural Center & Haak’u Museum 

Seleni Matus, Executive Director, the George Washington University International Institute of Tourism Studies and instructor of Tourism Resilience for the Cultural Heritage Tourism Professional Certificate Program

Talia Salem, Principal of The Urban Nomad and instructor of Tourism Marketing for the Professional Certificate in Cultural Heritage Tourism

Join AIANTA in partnership with the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail for this one-hour webinar. Learn how to restart and reimagine your cultural tourism product and also learn more about tourism marketing opportunities for your tourism enterprise and/or destination.