SOUTHWEST SEMINARS PRESENTS
JANUARY VOICES 2025

Image: 2013 m & m Photography

MONDAY NIGHTS AT 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

January 6   Dr. Severin Fowles
Archaeologist and Associate Professor of Anthropology, Barnard College, Columbia University. Tucked away in the mountains at the northeastern margin of the Pueblo world, Picuris is widely regarded as having developed in relative isolation from the central drama of Southwest history: namely, the rise of a politically complex center in Chaco Canyon to the west. Recent research conducted in partnership with the tribe, however, has revealed that this long-held perspective is, quite simply, false. In this talk Dr. Fowles presents new evidence demonstrating a close and evolving connection between Picuris and Chaco, beginning in the 9th century CE. The early history of this connection is strongly evident in settlement pattern and ceramic data. More provocatively, recent discoveries suggest that the Ancestral Picuris were the most explicit inheritors of the Chacoan tradition of constructing and racing on long-distance ceremonial roads. Offered as a tribute to the late Richard Mermejo—former Picuris governor and stalwart supporter of archaeological research—this talk aims to situate Picuris at the very center of Southwest history.
Picuris Pueblo and Chaco

January 13 Dr. John E. Ninnemann
SPECIAL NOTE:  Tonight’s lecture at La Fonda on the Plaza in the New Mexico Room
Former Professor and Dean, Natural and Behavioral Sciences and Professor, Ft. Lewis College; Photographer, Canyon Spirits: Beauty and Power in the Ancestral Puebloan World (w/Essays by S.H. Lekson & J. McKim Malville); Cover Photographer, Greater Lunar Standstill, Chimney Rock (2010), American Archaeology Magazine, (The Archaeological Conservancy); Lecturer: Chaco Canyon National Historic Park, Canyons of the Ancients National Monument; La Posada, Winslow, Az; Noted photographer, avid backpacker, hiker, river runner, naturalist, and historian.
Fred Harvey & Mary Jane Coulter: Innovation and Architecture Built a Legend

January 20 Dr. Joseph H. Suina (Cochiti Pueblo)
Former Governor of Cochiti Pueblo and Professor Emeritus of Education, University of New Mexico; former director, Institute for American Indian Education; Author ‘The Knowledge Keepers: Protecting Pueblo Culture from the Western World’ (Crow Canyon 40^th Anniversary) ‘And Then I Went to School’. A voice for Native people in many areas: health, education, language preservation, sacred sites, sustainable economic development and housing, Dr. Suina is also devoted to farming, family and tribal council service. In addition to Amerind Foundation he has long served as a study leader for Southwest Seminars Travels With a Scholar programs.
Our Pueblo Feasts

January 27 Dr. Mark Asquino
U.S. Ambassador (ret.) and Foreign Service Officer; His thirty-seven year career included postings in Latin America, Europe, Central Asia and Africa. During 2012-2015, served as U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, Spain’s only former colony in sub-Saharan Africa. He earned a Ph.D. in American Studies from Brown University. Mark recently published a memoir, Spanish Connections: My Diplomatic Journey from Venezuela to Equatorial Guinea.
Experience of Indigenous People in Spanish Guinea

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

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