SOUTHWEST SEMINARS PRESENTS
ANCIENT SITES ANCIENT STORIES 2020

Principal Chiefs of the Arapaho Tribe by James Dempsey Hutton, c. 1859-60

MONDAY NIGHTS AT 6 PM AT HOTEL SANTA FE
AND OCCASIONALLY AT SANTA FE WOMEN’S CLUB
LECTURES – 50 MONDAYS A YEAR

January 6 Dr. Severin Fowles
Anthropological Archaeologist; Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Barnard College/Columbia University; Author, The Making of Made People: The Prehistoric Evolution of Hierocracy Among the Northern Tiwa of New Mexico; and An Archaeology of Doings: Secularism and the Study of Pueblo Religion; Extensive research in Rio Grande del Norte National Monument
The Curious Case of Coronado’s Shields

January 13 Dr. Lawrence Larry Loendorf
Anthropologist and Archaeologist of the Intermountain West; President, Sacred Sites Research, Inc.; Cultural Resource Management, Department of Anthropology, New Mexico State University; Co-Author (w/ J. Francis), Mountain Spirit: The Sheep Eater Indians of Yellowstone; (w/P. Nabokov) Restoring a Presence: Indians and Yellowstone National Park; Author, Thunder and Herds: Rock Art of the High Plains;  Recipient, Distinguished Service Award, American. Rock Art Research Association
Twin Heroes of the Plains

 January 20 Dr. Kirt Kempter
NOTE: Held at Santa Fe Woman’s Club – 1616 Old Pecos Trail
Volcanologist, Independent Field Geologist; Study Leader, Smithsonian Journeys to Antarctica and Iceland; Former Fulbright Scholar; Field research: Costa Rica, Mexico, New Mexico; Field Geologic Training, NASA Astronaut Candidate Program, New Mexico; Excellent Fajita Chef
Africa’s Great Rift Valley: Geology and Human Origins

January 27 Jack Loeffler
Bioregional Aural Historian, Producer, Writer, Sound Collage Artist and Musician; Recipient, New Mexico Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts; Author, Adventures With Ed: A Portrait of Abbey.With the temperament of Santa Claus and the tenacity of a badger, Jack reveals his compassion and concern for Southwestern traditional cultures and their respective habitats in the wake of Manifest Destiny.
Headed Into the Wind: A Memoir

February 3 Dr. Frank Graziano
John D. MacArthur Professor Emeritus of Hispanic Studies, Connecticut College; Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities; Author, Historic Churches of Northern New Mexico Today; The Millennial New World; Cultures of Devotion: Folk Saints of Spanish America; Miraculous Images; Votive Offerings in Mexico; Co-founder, (w/R. Montoya, P. Warzel) , Nuevo Mexico Profundo
Native Catholicism at the Pueblos and The Mescalero Apache Tribe

February 10 Dr. Davina Ruth Two Bears (Dine’/Navajo)
2019-2020 Anne Ray Fellow, School for Advanced Research; 2017-2019 Charles Eastman Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, Dartmouth College;  A graduate of the Indiana University Department of Anthropology Archaeology of the Social Context PhD program with a focus on the educational experience of Navajo children and how they resisted and survived early 20^th c. federal Indian Boarding School assimilationist policies.
My Grandparents’ School: Navajo Survivance & Education at Old Leupp Boarding School, 1909-1942

February 17 Dr. Dennis J. Aigner
Author, The Swastika Symbol in Navajo Textiles and The Swastika Motif: Its Use in Navajo and Oriental Weaving; Professor Emeritus of Management and Economics, Paul Merage School of Business, University California, Irvine; Former Professor and Chair, Economics, University of Southern California
A Brief History of the Swastika Symbol and its Use in Navajo Weaving

February 24 Dr. Carol B. Patterson, RPA
NOTE: Held at Santa Fe Woman’s Club – 1616 Old Pecos Trail
Archaeologist, Cultural Anthropologist, & Principal Investigator, Urraca Archaeological Services; Research Associate, Dominguez Archaeological Research Group; Author, Ute Indian Petroglyphs of Western Colorado and Eastern Utah as Interpreted by Clifford Duncan, American Philosophical Society; Ute Rock Art Map, Int’l. Federation of Rock Art Organizations
Kachinas (Katsinam) in Rock Art

March 2 Dr. Ann Ramenofsky/ Dr. Kari L. Schleher RPAAnn: Associate Professor of Archaeology, Department of Anthropology, University of New MexicoKari: Laboratory Manager, Crow Canyon Archeological Center, Cortez, CoCo-Editors, The Archaeology and History of San Marcos Pueblo: Change and Stability, Winner, 2018 Arizona-New Mexico Book Award for Anthropology/Archaeology
San Marcos Pueblo: Native Stability and Change During the Spanish Contact Period

March 9 Dr. Thomas Dalton Dillehay
Archaeologist; Rebecca Webb Wilson University Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Religion, and Culture and Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Latin American Studies, Vanderbilt University; Senior Scholar, School for Advanced Research; Author, The Settlement of the Americas: A New Prehistory; ; Monuments, Empires and Resistance: The Araucanian Polity &  Ritual Narratives;; Co-Editor, (w/D.J. Meltzer), The First Americans: Search and Research.
America’s Oldest Known Textiles: Social & Cultural Context of Cotton Fabrics in Peru

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