SOUTHWEST SEMINARS PRESENTS
NATIVE CULTURE MATTERS 2019

MONDAY NIGHTS AT HOTEL SANTA FE AT 6PM
(AND OCCASIONALLY AT SANTA FE WOMANS CLUB)

LECTURES – 50 MONDAYS A YEAR

August 12 Dr. Patricia L. Crown
NOTE: Held at Santa Fe Woman’s Club – 1616 Old Pecos Trail
Archaeologist and Distinguished Professor of Anthropology & Archaeology: Ceramics Analysis Laboratory, University of New Mexico; and Co-editor, Social Violence in the Prehistoric American Southwest; Editor, The Pueblo Bonito Mounds of Chaco Canyon: Material Culture and Fauna; Co-Author,’ Ritual Drinks in the Prehispanic U.S. Southwest & Northwest Mexico’; Author, (w/T. Emerson, J. Gu, J. Hurst, T. Pauketat, & T. Ward) Ritual Black Drink Consumption at Cahokia, Proceedings National Academy of Sciences
Dead Parrots and Hot Chocolate

August 19 Cara Romero (Chemehuevi), Diego Romero (Cochiti) Mateo Romero (Cochiti)
Cara: 2017 Best of Class, Best of Division, 1st Place, Digital Photography, SF Indian Market; 2017 Distinguished Alumni Award Institute of American Indian ArtsDiego, 2019 Native Treasures Award, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture; 2000 Best of Division, 1^st Place, Contemporary Pottery, Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair
Mateo 2019 Native Treasures Award, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture; former Dubin Fellow, School for Advanced Research (SAR); Writer, Curator, Educator
Native Trifecta: A Family of Award-Winning Artists

August 26 Darren Vigil Gray (Jicarilla Apache/Kiowa Apache)
Painter, Visual Artist, Musician; 2013 Recipient, Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts; 2002, Retrospective, Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian; Solo Exhibition, Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona; Arts educator, New Mexico School for the Arts
Where I Have Been, Where I Am Now, Where I Am Going

September 2 Dr. Eric Blinman
NOTE: Held at Santa Fe Woman’s Club – 1616 Old Pecos Trail
Archaeologist and Director, Office of Archeological Studies, Center for New Mexico Archaeology, Museum of New Mexico, Department of Cultural Affairs; Research in Paleo-Climate studies, Archaeo-magnetic dating, Pueblo social history, Pottery and Textiles; Presenter, 2007 World Colloquium on Human Adaptation Strategies in Greenland
Pueblos of the Galisteo Basin Across the Threshold of Spanish Colonization

September 9 Regina Lopez-Whiteskunk (Ute Mountain)
NOTE: Held at Santa Fe Woman’s Club – 1616 Old Pecos Trail
Former Co-Charwoman, Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition and Former Tribal Councilwoman, Ute Mountain Ute; Interview, ‘Fighting For The Land And Building Healing From Within’, in Edge of Morning: Native Voices Speak for the Bears Ears (J. Keeler, Ed.); Former Education Coordinator, Ute Indian Museum, Montrose, Colorado
The Fight for Bears Ears: Thinking of Generations Down the Road

September 16 Jim Heidke
Senior Ceramic Analyst, Desert Archaeology, Inc., Tucson, Arizona since 1984; Extensive experience analyzing Native American pottery from 4,000 years ago through early 1900’s; Research on emergence of pottery; special interest in clay containers and figurines.
Early Pottery of the Southern Southwest

September 23 Josh Ewing
NOTE: Held at Santa Fe Woman’s Club – 1616 Old Pecos Trail
Executive Director, Friends of Cedar Mesa
Climber, Hiker, Photographer and Volunteer, Fire Department, Bluff, Utah
Beyond the Beaten Path of Bears Ears: Threatened Cultural Landscapes of San Juan County

September 30 Rob Martinez, M.A.
Deputy State Historian, Office of the New Mexico Historian, New Mexico Records and Archives; Former Research Assistant, Vargas Project; Former Research Historian, Sephardic Legacy Project; International historic archival research, both church and civil, on Crypto-Jewish phenomenon in New Mexico and the Caribbean.
Castas (Castes) in Spanish New Mexico

October 7 Octavius Seotewa (Zuni)
NOTE: Held at Santa Fe Woman’s Club – 1616 Old Pecos Trail
Zuni Elder & Member, Zuni Cultural Resources Advisory Team, Needlepoint Artist (w/Irma)\
Zuni Connections to the Sacred Landscape of Grand Canyon and Bears Ears

$15 PER PERSON AT THE DOOR ~ OR $108 TO SUBSCRIBE TO THE SERIES OF 9 LECTURES