SOUTHWEST SEMINARS PRESENTS
NOVEMBER VOICES 2025
MONDAY 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
November 3 Dr. E. C. ‘Chuck’ Adams Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, University of Arizona; Curator Emeritus, Archaeology, and Director, Homol’ovi Research Program, Arizona State Museum; Developed U. of Az. Pueblo Archaeology course, 1987 taught to 2016. Taught in Southwest Land, Culture & Society graduate minor program. Led School of Anthropology Field School 2011-2016. Author, The Origin and Development of the Pueblo Katsina Cult; Homol’ovi: An Ancient Hopi Settlement Cluster; Editor, Chevelon: Pueblo at Blue Running Water; Homol’ovi: A Pueblo Hamlet in the Middle Little Colorado Valley, Northeastern Arizona; Co-Editor: The Protohistoric Pueblo World: A.D. 1275 to 1600; Chapter Author, ‘New Perspectives on an Ancient Religion: Katsina Ritual and the Archaeological Record’, in Religion in the Pre-Hispanic Southwest, (eds. C.&T. Van Pool; ‘Hopi History Prior to 1600’, in The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the American Southwest, (eds. B.J. Mills/S. Fowles).
Time & Space: Recovering History at Homol’ovi I: a 14th C. Hopi Village in Northeastern Arizona
November 10 Dr. Sean Dolan, R.P.A.
Archaeologist, American Southwest/Mexican Northwest; Cultural Resources Manager, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL); Author: “ Insularity as Cultural Strategy: Mimbres Social Organization in Southwest New Mexico, CE 1000-1130” (In Press), American Antiquity; ‘Birds of the Earth and the Dead: An Archaeological Review of Turkeys from the United States Southwest & Mexican Northwest’ (In Press), Kiva, Journal of Southwestern Anthropology and History; Co-Author: Understanding Turkey Management in the Mimbres Valley of Southwestern New Mexico using Ancient Mitochondrial DNA and Stable Isotopes (w/A.Oxga, K.Laumbach, J. Krigbaum, A.Manin, C.Schwartz, A.Stone, K.Knudson) and ‘Pachuca Obsidian Blades from the United States Southwest: Implications for Mesoamerican Connections & Coronado’s Mexican Indian Allies’, (w/M.S. Shackley) both American Antiquity; ‘Long-Distance Conveyance of California Obsidian at Hayhurst Lithic Cache Site in Oklahoma’, (w/M.S. Shackley, D. Wyckoff, C. Skinner), Plains Anthropologist.
Ashes Across the Desert: Mimbres & Hohokam Cremations, 750-1450 CE
November 17 Brian Vallo (Pueblo of Acoma)
Private consultant; Former Governor, Pueblo of Acoma; Former Director, Indian Arts Research Center, School for Advanced Research where he led development & publication of Guidelines for Collaboration between tribes & museums to create relevant and culturally appropriate programming, provide collections access, stewardship, and improve documentation. Former Director, Acoma Historic Preservation & Founding Director, Acoma Haak’u Museum; Trustee, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Conservation Lands Foundation, and Native Ars and Cultures Foundation. A self-taught artist, his multi-media paintings are inspired by the landscape and pottery of the Pueblo of Acoma. An advocate for sacred site protection, repatriation of ancestors, items of cultural patrimony held in museum.
Pathways and Intersections: A Journey of Leadership and Opportunity
November 24 Wayne Yazza, Jr., Governor & Lt. Governor Craig Quanchello (Picuris Pueblo)
Picuris Pueblo maintains a strong connection through oral tradition from elders to its long past, now ancient DNA has confirmed long-held knowledge of connection to Chaco Canyon culture while current developments at Picuris Pueblo demonstrate their strong commitment to continue long into the future. strengthened by the teachings of their ancestors.
Picuris Pueblo: Looking Forward While Looking Back
$20 AT THE DOOR – OR – $75 FOR THE SERIES OF 4 LECTURES
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