Double Take
BY HANNAH ABELBECK, JENNIFER DENETDALE, AND DEVORAH ROMANEK More than a hundred and fifty years ago, probably [...]
Southwest History
The Grace of Water and the Focus of Rock
BY PATSY PHILLIPS On September 20, 2019, Suzan Shown Harjo (Cheyenne, Hodulgee Muscogee) will be honored with [...]
They Also Dug
BY CATHERINE S. FOWLER AND NANCY J. PAREZO If asked, could you name five or more archaeologists famous for [...]
The Canyon Under the Lake
BY KATHERINE WARE Some places are so special that we can’t wait to visit them again and again. For many [...]
The Captive
BY PAUL ANDREW HUTTON The Mexican soldiers came late in the Spring of 1855. The people saw them in the [...]
The Center Will Not Hold
BY JACQUELINE KEELER We live in a world largely constructed by the wants and dreams of white men. When we [...]
Flowing From Our Wildest Imaginations
BY WILLY CARLETON · PHOTOGRAPHS BY SHERMAN HOGUE/BLMNM My legs dangle over the small bridge as I watch the [...]
Photo Synthesis
BY HANNAH ABELBECK One hundred and fifty years ago, thousands of Navajo people undertook a second arduous [...]
The Practice of Aural History
BY JACK LOEFFLER Imagine yourself camped in the Kuakatch Wash in an isolated area of the Sonoran Desert. It [...]
Straight Back to Our Own Country
BY HAMPTON SIDES This story accompanies Esther G. Belin’s poem, “The Petition(-ing, er) of [...]
Acts of Love and Protection
BY CATALINA VICENTE WITH PW CHATTEY What’s the longest hike you’ve ever been on? A few hours, maybe a day [...]
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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