SOUTHWEST SEMINARS PRESENTS
APRIL VOICES 2023
MONDAY NIGHTS 6 PM AT HOTEL SANTA FE
LECTURES – 50 MONDAYS A YEAR (ALMOST)
A PUBLIC PROGRAM GRACIOUSLY ASSISTED BY HOTEL SANTA FE, A PICURIS PUEBLO ENTERPRISE
April 3 Dr. John A. Ware
Archaeologist and Former Executive Director, The Amerind Foundation
Founding Director, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Museum of New Mexico
A Pueblo Social History: Kinship, Sodality, and Community in the Northern SW.
Chaco: A View from Downstream
April 10 Doug Crispin, B.A.
Celebrated 50th summer (2022) Wearing a park uniform: 25 yrs at Oregon State Parks (Oregon Coast, Central Oregon, & Willamette Valley) from entry level Park Ranger to Park Manager at 3 state parks; 25 years National Park Service Seasonal Ranger (14 different NPS sites) including North Rim Grand Canyon (Interpretive Ranger), Mesa Verde (Interpretive Ranger), Yellowstone (Old Faithful Naturalist), Grand Teton (Naturalist at Colter Bay), Rainbow Bridge National Monument (Backcountry Interpreter); Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, NPS Full Law Enforcement Commission; EMT Medical Tech
Challenges for Our National Parks
April 17 Dr. Russell ‘Rusty’ Greaves
Director, Office of Contract Archaeology and Professor, Department of Anthropology, UNM Fieldwork in archaeology, ethnology, and evolutionary anthropology at diverse archaeological sites spanning Paleoindian to 19th century in the Southwest, Great Plains, & Great Basin. Ethnoarchaeological fieldwork with Mexican Yucatec Maya & Venezuela Pume’, New Mexico & Arizona Pueblo & Dine’ communities. Involved in protection of landscape, features, viewsheds, and modern sound intrusions on places important to Native American use. Appreciation of indigenous histories not as thoroughly treated as more recent New World migrants.
Ethnoarchaeology of a Maya Community in an Everchanging World: Persistence of Ancient Knowledge & Adaptability to our Modern Age
April 24 Dr. Eric Blinman
Archaeologist and Former Director Office of Archaeological Studies, Department of Cultural Affairs; Participant, 2007 World Colloquium hosted by King Carl XVI of Sweden on human survival strategies to climate change; Former Acting Director, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Museum of New Mexico. Involved in Western American archaeology since 1967; Specialties include pottery technology, paleoclimate studies, yucca and basketry textiles. He joined OAS in 1988. Eric is indefatigable and regarded as an educator’s educator. He still says, “Never a Dull Moment!”
At the Boundary Between Wet and Dry: A 2,500 Year-Old Midden on the Olympic Peninsula
$20 at the Door – or – $75 To Subscribe to the Series of 4 Lectures
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