Mother Earth, Father Sky Offered at a Benefit for The New Mexico Environmental Law Center Monday Evenings at 6 p.m. At Hotel Santa Fe, 1501 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, NM 87501 Call (505) 466-2775 for Information October 22 Dr. Eric Blinman Director, Office of Archaeological Studies, Museum of New Mexico A Southwestern Archaeologist in King Carl’s Court: Human Responses to the Past, Present, and Future of Climate Change October 29 Dr. Kirt Kempter Geologist, Vulcanologist, and Fulbright scholar Antarctica: Past, Present and Future of the Secretive Continent November 5 Dr. Dick Ford Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Anthropology Former Director, Ethnobotanical Laboratory, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Origins of Maize in the Northern Rio Grande November 12 Tweeti Blancett Rancher, environmental activist and advocate Rip Roaring Ranching and Fighting Oil and Gas November 19 Laura Watchempino (Acoma Pueblo) Water Quality Specialist, Attorney, Haaku Water Office, Acoma Pueblo Protecting the Acoma Cultural Province November 26 Dutch Salmon Chairman, Gila Conservation Coalition; New Mexico Game Commissioner, and former Interstate Stream Commissioner Gila: Saving New Mexico’s Last Wild River December 3 Michael Scialdone Wilderness Protection Director, New Mexico Wilderness Alliance Containing Off-Road Vehicle Abuses in our National Forests: The Travel Management Rule December 10 Honorable Verna Williamson Teller (Isleta Pueblo) Judge, Pueblo of Isleta, Former Governor, Isleta Pueblo If You Poison Us: A Native Environmental Perspective December 17 Emigdio Ballon (Quechua) Director, Tesuque Agricultural Resources Project, Pueblo of Tesuque Restoring Indigenous Agriculture Return to Lectures Page