SOUTHWEST SEMINARS PRESENTS
MARCH VOICES 2025

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

March 3 Dr. John A. Ware
Southwestern anthropologist/archaeologist, Director Emeritus, The Amerind Foundation; Former Director, Laboratory of Anthropology; Founding Director, New Mexico Museum of Indian Arts and Culture; Visiting professor, Colgate University, NEH Fellow, School for Advanced Research; Author, A Pueblo Social History: Kinship, Sodality, and Community in the Northern Southwest with focus on evolution of Pueblo Indian social, ceremonial and political organization.
The Anthropology and Archaeology of Pueblo Secret Societies

March 10 Mike S.Vigil
Former Chief of International Operations, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), former Special Agent in Charge of Caribbean and San Diego Divisions; Recipient, Top Cop Award, National Association of Police Organization; Honorary General, Government of Afghanistan; Contributor: ABC, CBS, , NBC, CNN, MSNBC, Telemundo, TV Azteca, Univision, Honduran National TV; Author, Claw of the Dragon, Rise of the Sicario, Narco Queen, Afghan Warlord, Land of Enchantment Cartel, DEAL.
Drug Cartels, Sicario Terror Training, and Money Laundering Operations

March 17 Larry Dalrymple, M.A. and Leatrice A. Armstrong
Larry Dalrymple: Educational Consultant/Author, Indian Basketmakers of the Southwest; California high school History and Art therapy teacher; taught writing at Modesto Jr. College; Author, Indian Basketmakers of California and the Great Basin, Indian Basketmakers of the Southwest; Their Heritage, Their Tradition: Resilience of Native American Basket Makers; Research Associate, Indian Arts Research Center, The School for Advanced Research.
Leatrice ‘Lea’ Armstrong:  Former Assistant to the Director, Education Coordinator, and Volunteer, Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian; Author, Mary Wheelwright: Her Book.
Resilience of Native American Basket Artists

March 24, Dr. William Taylor
Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Curator of Archaeology, Museum of Natural History, University of Colorado; Researches relationship between humans and animals with focus on horses and animal domestication, and technical emphasis on archaeozoology, archaeological science, and emerging technologies. Ongoing field projects in the Great Plains and American Southwest, Mongolia, Steppes of Central Asia. Museum collections research in China, Australia, & South America.
Author, Hoof Beats: How Horses Shaped Human History.
Horses in Human History and the Southwest

March 31 Dr. Spencer Lucas
Paleontologist, Stratigrapher and Curator of Paleontology, New Mexico Museum of Natural History; Specialization in study of late Paleozoic, Mesozoic and early Cenozoic vertebrate fossils and continental deposits, particularly in the American Southwest; Field experience in western U.S., northern NM, Costa Rica, Kazakhstan, Nicaragua, Soviet Georgia, People’s Republic of China. More than 1,000 scientific articles, co-edited 14 books; Author or co-author: Vertebrate Ichnology: Tetrapod Tracks and Trackways; Dinosaur Century: 100 Years of Dinosaur Discoveries in New Mexico; Advances in San Juan Basin Paleontology.
Rethinking Mass Extinctions

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IMAGES: COURTESY LARRY DALRYMPLE

BASKET BY KAREN MARTINEZ CROOK (HAVASUPAI)

PHOTO BY KITTY LEAKEN