SOUTHWEST SEMINARS PRESENTS
MOTHER EARTH, FATHER SKY: PERSPECTIVES ON THE WEST 

MONDAY NIGHTS AT 6 PM AT HOTEL SANTA FE

A PUBLIC PROGRAM GRACIOUSLY ASSISTED BY HOTEL SANTA FE, A PICURIS PUEBLO ENTERPRISE
TO HONOR AND ACKNOWLEDGE THE WORK OF THE NEW MEXICO ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER
LECTURES: 50 MONDAYS A YEAR

October 19 Dr. ‘Doc’ Kathleen Ramsay
Founder, Wildlife Center; Founder/Owner, Cottonwood Veterinary Clinic
Co-Founder, Land of Enchantment Wildlife Foundation; Mentor, Santa Fe Raptor Center
New Mexico Wildlife: Its Importance to Us

October 26 Dr. Cipriano Frederico Vigil
Ethnomusicologist, Musician, Author, New Mexican Folk Music: Treasures of a People
Former Chair, Department of Fine Arts, Northern New Mexico Community College
Recipient, New Mexico Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts; Living Treasure, Santa Fe New Mexican; New Mexico Endowment for the Humanities Award; Nominee, National Heritage Award
La Musica de los Viejos

November 2 Jack Loeffler
Bioregional Aural Historian, Producer, Writer, Sound Collage Artist and Musician
Board Member, Lore of the Land; Environmental Activist and Author Adventures With Ed: A Portrait of Abbey; Headed Upstream: Interviews with Iconoclasts; La Musica de los Viejitos;Survival Along the Continental Divide; Healing the West: Voices of Culture and Habitat
Recipient, New Mexico Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts
(My) Encounters with Remarkable Minds

November 9 Daniela Roth
State Botanist, Endangered Plant Program Coordinator, State Forestry Division, New Mexico Department of Energy and MineralsFormer Rare Plant Botanist, Navajo Nation.
Rare and Endangered Plants of New Mexico

November 16 Don Usner, M.A.
Cultural Geographer, Photographer, Writer, Author, Sabino’s Map: Life in Chimayo’s Old Plaza; Benigna’s Chimayo: Cuentos From the Old Plaza; Instructor, Santa Fe University of Art and Design and Santa Fe Preparatory School; Luminaria, New Mexico Community Foundation
Chasing Dichos Through Chimayo

November 23 Kyle Dickman and Peter Vigneron
Kyle: Author, On the Burning Edge: A Fateful Fire and the Men Who Fought It; Contributing Editor, Outside Magazine; Nominee, National Magazine Award; Former Hotshot Firefighter
Peter: Freelance Journalist, Outside Magazine; Assistant Editor, On the Burning Edge
The Yarnell Hill Fire

November 30 Dr. Bryan Brown
Former Ornithology Researcher, Grand Canyon National Park, National Park Service
River Boatman and Guide; Co-Author, (w/S.W. Carothers, R.R. Johnson), Grand Canyon Birds: Historical Notes, Natural History and Ecology; (w/S.W. Carothers), The Colorado River Through Grand Canyon: Natural History and Human Change
Historic River Ferry Crossings of the Green and Colorado Rivers in Utah

December 7 Dr. Ross Hassig
Independent Historical Anthropologist; Former Professor of Anthropology, University of Oklahoma; Author, Time, History, and Belief in Aztec and Colonial Mexico; Aztec Warfare: Imperial Expansion and Political Control; Trade, Tribute, and Transportation: the Sixteenth Century Political Economy of the Valley of Mexico
Polygamy and the Decline and Fall of the Azteca

December 14 Dr. Richard I. Ford
Ethnobotanist and Archaeologist, Arthur F.Thurnau Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Botany, University of Michigan (Ret.); Research Associate, Laboratory of Anthropology, Museum of New Mexico
The Origin of Maize Horticulture in the Northern Rio Grande Valley.

December 21 Louie Hena (Tesuque/Zuni)
Member, Board of Directors and Advisors, New Energy Economy
Permaculture Design Consultant
Sustainable Agriculture and Permaculture at Tesuque Pueblo

$12 at the door ~ or ~ $100 for the Series of 10 Lectures