1917 by Matthew Martinez San Juan Pueblo For centuries, the art of painting and drawing has always been a fundamental practice of indigenous peoples across the Americas. Evidence of recording through drawing can be seen in the petroglyphs found throughout the Southwest, which date back thousands of years. Art,…
Over the past century, archaeologists have learned a great deal about 12,000 years of life in and around Santa Fe. We have some idea about how the several cultural periods differed and why they differed, but despite all our efforts, we as archaeologists will never be able to sit…
A Cultural Mapping and Place Name Study: Valles Caldera 9 3 2008
This talk examines the gendered rhetorical strategies that Territorial Penitentiary inmates deployed in order to claim entitlement to Territorial Governor George Curry's Holiday Pardons between 1907 and 1910. How did these men-along with destitute parents, ill wives, and "womanly" children-construct and perform Territorial masculinities by evoking claims of industriousness,…
Mexican American writing is a very valuable resource for environmental thought. Mexican Americans' deep historical ties to the land – working the land in sustainable ways – and the narration of these ties in memoirs and novels of the nineteenth and early twentieth century prove invaluable resources for traditional…
11 15 1947 William Blaine ("Bill") Richardson, III was born on November 15, 1947 in Pasadena, CA. He is the son of William Blaine Richardson Jr., of New England Yankee and Mexican descent, an American Citibank executive who grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, lived and worked in Mexico City,…
Terry Moody and Clarence Fielder The African-American Experience African-Americans have been significant to the history of southern New Mexico since the 1860s. The earliest African-Americans to spend more than a short period of time in the New Mexico Territory were troops of black soldiers—the famous “Buffalo Soldiers”—sent by the…
