SOUTHWEST SEMINARS PRESENTS

JULY VOICESMONDAY NIGHTS AT 6 PM AT HOTEL SANTA FE
LECTURES 50 MONDAYS A YEAR

A PUBLIC PROGRAM GRACIOUSLY ASSISTED BY HOTEL SANTA FE, A PICURIS PUEBLO ENTERPRISE

July 7 Dr. Wade H. Campbell (Diné-Navajo)
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology & Archaeology Program, Boston University; A historical archaeologist whose research examines the relationships between Diné communities and other local groups in the U.S. Southwest from the 17th century to the present day, including the Pueblos, Spanish, and Americans. Engagement with a range of questions related to longer-term patterns of Navajo settlement and economic activity across the greater Four Corners region, with a particular focus on incipient Indigenous pastoralism and related shifts in land-use, social organization, & diet/subsistence practices. Co-Author (w/S.L. Weber, E.Dresser-Kluchman, T.D. Wilcox, A. Wesson) ‘Microbotanical starch analysis as a tool for Indigenous foodways research: An early Navajo case study from the US Southwest.’ Journal of Archaeological Science.
Archaeology & Indigenous Food Sovereignty: An Early Diné Case Study from NW New Mexico

July 14 Tom Ribe, M.S. Environmental Studies
A conservationist, writer, outdoor educator and long-time public lands/national park advocate who specializes in environmental matters in the Four Corners region, especially northern New Mexico. Co-owner of Great Southwest Adventures; Executive Director, Caldera Action; past Chair, J Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Committee; Member, Board of Directors, Firefighters United For Safety Ethics and Ecology; and legal consultant on federal wildfire matters. Author, Inferno by Committee: A History of the Cerro Grande Fire, America’s Worst Prescribed Fire Disaster, a primer on wildland fire and environmental history of northern New Mexico.
Inferno by Committee

July 21 Dr. Thatcher Seltzer-Rogers, RPA
Director, Ceramic Analysis Laboratory and Deputy Director, New Mexico Office of Archaeological Studies; Senior Archaeologist/Principal Investigator at Chronicle Heritage; professional archaeological experience throughout the Western and Midwestern United States and in northwest Mexico; managed sizable, multi-site projects, including data recovery, from research design through fieldwork to report submittal in the American Southwest and conducted fieldwork in the Upper Midwest and Southern Plains. Expertise in ceramic analysis (particularly central and southern New Mexico, central and southern Arizona, northern Chihuahua) and advanced quantitative analysis. He has also worked on numerous Tribal projects and aided in NAGPRA and other repatriation processes with descendant communities.
Mimbres Classic Pottery in Transition

July 28 John Haworth (Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma)
Former Director, National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI)-New York. Writer, native arts/culture organizations & policy issues. Presentations: NMAI; Eiteljorg and Seattle Art Museum; Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA);  MoCHNA, Emmanuel Art Gallery, University of Colorado; U.S. State Department (Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia); UNESCO (Paris, France); CEC Arts Link; Museum of European & Mediterranean Civilizations (Mucem); RMIT-Australia, Australian Arts Council; Rutgers University; Americans for the Arts; Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums (ATALM); Native American & Indigenous Studies Association; Autry Museum of the American West. Board Member, Americans for the Arts, Forge Project); Advisor for Native Arts & Cultures Foundation, ATALM, Auschwitz Institute.
Triumphs & Challenges of Contemporary Native Art

$20 AT THE DOOR – OR – $75 FOR THE SERIES OF 4 LECTURES

 MIMBRES CLASSIC POTTERY IMAGES: ARCHAEOLOGY SOUTHWEST

 COMMITTED TO SENSITIVE CULTURAL EDUCATION & WORK WITH THOSE THAT SHARE THE SAME COMMITMENT