Charles Lummis photo
Charles Lummis Charles F. Loomis. Image courtesy of Southwest Museum, Los Angeles, California, image # 21821.
Maternal Health Center Opens in Santa Fe-1937
By Michael Ann Sullivan On October 27, 1937, the Santa Fe Maternal Health Center (SFMHC) opened under the auspices of Margaret Sanger and the New York Clinical Research Bureau. Florence Davenport, Faith Meem, and several other prominent Santa Fe women had invited Sanger to tea the previous summer to…
American Trader-photo
American Trader Photograph Anson C. Damon, ca.1880s, photographer and place unknown. McNitt Photographic Collection, Image #6481. Courtesy New Mexico State Records Center and Archives.
Bazz Owen Smaulding
Bazz Owen Smaulding, a teacher, athlete, and coach, was the son of a pioneer African-American family in New Mexico. Although born in Fort Griffin, Texas, by 1905 his family was living on a homestead ranch near Clayton, New Mexico. Smaulding graduated from Albuquerque Grammar School in 1915 and attended…
Las Gorras Blancas of San Miguel County
By David Correia From February 1889 until the summer of 1891 a clandestine organization of night riders known as Las Gorras Blancas cut the fences and burned the barns of ranchers enclosing the Las Vegas Land Grant commons and destroyed railroad ties and burned bridges in a related effort…
Infectious Disease in Eighteenth Century El Paso del Norte
An Essay by Rick Hendricks For the last three decades, ethnohistorians and historical demographers have debated the role of infectious diseases on the populations of Spain's New World colonies. Completely lost in this scholarly discussion is the impact of such illnesses on the El Paso del Norte area, which…
Philmont Scout Ranch: A “University of the Outdoors”
By John T. “Jack” Becker For more than seventy summers, Boy Scouts, Explorers, and their leaders from all over the world converge on New Mexico’s Philmont Scout Ranch. Their goal is to experience the high adventure activities offered by the largest outdoor youth facility in the world. Located in…
Musings on the Navajo Nation
Musings on the Navajo Nation and the Ideology of Development and the Politics of Tradition By Jennifer Denetdale, Ph.D. For most of my career as a scholar, I have been interested in myriad ways that the Diné/Navajos have been represented by generations of travelers, writers, anthropologists, federal policy makers,…
Navajo Long Walk to Bosque Redondo-1864
By William H. Wroth In 1855 New Mexico territorial governor David Meriwether made treaties with, among other tribes, both the Mescalero Apaches and the Navajos. Although the U.S. Congress did not ratify these treaties, they served to inaugurate a brief period of peaceable relations between the United States and…
Navajo Trading Posts
By Lauren Gray Though the Spanish and later the Mexican government had their own delicate relationships with traders in the Southwest and New Mexico, the American trader has had arguably the greatest impact on Navajo indigenous economy, livelihood and culture. Over the past 150 years, the traders’ presence has…
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