New Mexico is a very special place, in part because of its ecological fragility as somewhere livable, with a long and rich history of human civilization, at the age of a harsh desert. It doesn't take much to throw this off balance and make the...
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On August 29, 1933, the National Miners Union shut down mines in Gallup, New Mexico. This labor action, which in many ways pitted Mexican miners against Navajo miners, demonstrates the.
I've been rereading N. Scott Momaday's House Made of Dawn, a fantastic novel about a Jemez man dealing with life in postwar America. It made me wonder what historical visions.
ONATE-JANE BERNARD/JOURNal Estevan Arellano, director of the Onate Center in Alcalde, shows how much of the foot and ankle was removed from a sculpture of Spanish settler Juan De Onate sometime over the weekend. New Mexico's race relations are fascinating and unique. I wrote a...
This is absolutely horrifying and also fits into 500 years of genocide against Native communities in the Americas. A prominent women’s hospital here has separated some Native American women from.
em121718b/a/From left, Maryann Maestas, with the ACLU, Susan Sattell, with Santa Fe National Organization of Women, and around 30 others listen as Rep. Joanne Ferrary, D-Las.
On January 22, 1599, Spanish troops began their attack on Acoma Pueblo in New Mexico. This incredibly violent incident and aftermath created a regime of labor under Spanish rule that would have devastating impacts on Native peoples. From the moment Europeans came to the Americas,...
I appreciated this discussion of the Entrada celebration in Santa Fe, a now long-running tradition in the city reenacting the Spanish reconquest of it in 1692 after the Pueblo Revolt.
One of my hobbyhorses is how frustrating it is that our public discussion of race in this country exists primarily on a black-white binary. At least at one university I.
Since 2011, the awful Susana Martinez has been governor of New Mexico. Her anti-tax, anti-regulation leadership has led to New Mexico lagging far behind the rest of the Southwest in every metric. And while some of this is not necessarily her fault--after all, it's not...
Mostly I can't disagree with this ranking of which states are the worst to spend summer. Washington is named the best state and while it might be a touch chilly.
This is the grave of Lucien Maxwell. Maxwell was born in 1818 in Kaskaskia, Illinois to a fur trading family on what was then the far frontier of white American.