Semiotic Sovereignty
BY MARLA REDCORN-MILLER The following interview with Mateo Romero (Cochiti) describes a more abstract form of [...]
Culture
Dance of the Monarch
BY EMILY WITHNALL Thomas Haukaas (Lakota) beads like a painter. At first glance, a viewer might simply see [...]
Flowing From Our Wildest Imaginations
BY WILLY CARLETON · PHOTOGRAPHS BY SHERMAN HOGUE/BLMNM My legs dangle over the small bridge as I watch the [...]
More Than Words
BY PETER BG SHOEMAKER Ten years ago, Shirley Klinghoffer launched her seminal Santa Fe-based Love Armor [...]
The Practice of Aural History
BY JACK LOEFFLER Imagine yourself camped in the Kuakatch Wash in an isolated area of the Sonoran Desert. It [...]
Back to the Future
BY KATE NELSON For Mary Kershaw, all it took was one sight of brick walls soaring up to an industrial-style [...]
Chief of Hearts
BY MARCUS AMERMAN I create many things in beadwork, but of all the things I bead, I appreciate [...]
Photo Synthesis
BY HANNAH ABELBECK One hundred and fifty years ago, thousands of Navajo people undertook a second arduous [...]
Family Affair
BY ROSS ALTSHULER How do skill, talent, and creativity run through New Mexico’s Native families of artists? [...]
The Petition(-ing, er) of Peace(-ful)(mak -ing, -er)
BY ESTHER G. BELIN This poem accompanies Hampton Sides’s story, “Straight Back to Our Own [...]
Unnatural Resources
BY AMY GROLEAU AND MARLA REDCORN-MILLER As artists, Aymar Ccopacatty (Aymara) and Nora Naranjo Morse (Santa [...]
Project Indigene in Action
In the spring of 2018, eight dynamic Santa Fe cultural institutions joined forces in a collaboration called [...]
Fundamentals for a Diné Gathering
BY LUCI TAPAHONSO The enticing scents and dishes of a Diné family meal are always accompanied by children [...]
Before Photocopiers
BY PENELOPE HUNTER-STIEBEL I went to visit Tom Leech, curator and director of the Palace Press, in hopes of [...]
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