SOUTHWEST SEMINARS PRESENTS
SEPTEMBER 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
September 1 Dr. Stephen H. Lekson
Curator of Archaeology, Jubilado, Museum of Natural History, University of Colorado; A History of the Ancient Southwest; Chaco Meridian: Centers of Power in the Ancient Southwest; Archaeology of the Mimbres Region, Southwestern New Mexico, USA; Editor, Archaeology of Chaco Canyon; and former Editor, Kiva Journal of Southwestern Anthropology and History. Known as the ‘big picture guy’, he has tied together the Ancient Southwest, Northern Mexico, and Mesoamerica in fine fashion His provocative and expansive views on the relationship of postclassic Mexican cultures and centers of influence on American Southwest cultural developments gives pause for thought and consideration by those who wonder what were the connections between these places?
How I Learned to Think (Big…about the Southwest)
September 8 Dr. Catherine M. Cameron
Professor Emerita, Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado; Author, Captives: How Stolen Peoples Changed the World; Chaco and After in the Northern San Juan: Excavations at the Bluff Great House; ‘Injection: An Archaeological Approach to Slavery;’, in The Palgrave Handbook of Global Slavery throughout History (eds: D.A. Pargas/J. Schiel); Co-Ed. (w/B.Bowser) Beyond Germs: Native Depopulation in North America; Landscapes of Movement and Predation: Perspectives from Archaeology, History, and Anthropology. 2024 Recipient, Alfred P. Kidder Award, American Anthropological Association, Archaeology Division for her influential research on ancient Pueblo societies and slavery in the prehistoric Southwest, inspiring scholars and which redefines our understanding of the past.
Landscapes of Predation: Violent Times in Small-Scale Societies
September 15 Stephen S. Post, B.A.
Archaeologist and Former Deputy Director, New Mexico Office of Archaeological Studies (OAS), New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs (OAS career, 1976-2011); Directed excavations New Mexico History Museum, Santa Fe Community and Convention Center which led to finding remnants of residential, military, government buildings, facilities left from 1,500 years of use. Author: ‘10,000 Years of Hunting & Gathering in Santa Fe’, in History of an Ancient Royal City (D.G. Noble, ed.),”The Palace, the Village and the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 to1696 “in Papers of the Archaeological Society of New Mexico, Vol.45); and nearly 200 archaeological reports on the Santa Fe area. Possessing of a broad understanding of traces left by 7,000 years of Santa Fe’s permanent and part-time residents, Steve is an independent archaeological/historical consultant.
Archaeology and History on the Other Side of the River: Santa Fe’s Barrio de Analco
September 22 Dr. Joseph H. Suina (Pueblo de Cochiti) with Dr. Eric Blinman
SPECIAL NOTE: Held at Santa Fe Woman’s Club, 1616 Old Pecos Trail
Joe: Former Governor, Pueblo de Cochiti; Professor Emeritus of Education former director, Institute for American Indian Education, University of New Mexico. Assessed native student learning & developed training programs for educators who teach American Indian students; Author: ‘The Knowledge Keepers: Protecting Pueblo Culture from the Western World’; ‘And Then I Went to School’. A voice for native health, education, language preservation, sacred sites, housing and sustainable economic development. President/CEO, Cochiti Community Development Corporation; Chair, Cochiti Language Revival Committee. Study Leader: Southwest Seminars, The Amerind Foundation and Colgate University. Devoted to farming, family, Cochiti tribal council service. Eric: Archaeologist, Archaeological Support Services; Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, University of New Mexico; Former Director, New Mexico Office of Archaeological Studies (OAS), Department of Cultural Affairs; Participant 2007 Colloquium, Past Human Responses to Climate Change,,hosted by King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweeden; Former Acting Director, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Museum of New Mexico. Involved in Western American archaeology since 1967; Joined OAS in 1988. Specialties include pottery technology, paleoclimate studies, yucca & basketry textiles.
A Conversation on Pueblo Culture & History
September 29 Wayne Ranney, M.S.
Author 10 books, including Carving the Grand Canyon; Co-Author (w/ R.Blakey), Ancient Landscapes of the Colorado Plateau; River and Trail Guide, Grand Canyon National Park. Capitol Reef National Park, Grand Staircase/Escalante National Monument, & International travel guide: Antarctica, Patagonia, Africa, Australia, the Amazon, North/South Poles. Recipient, 2021 John D. Haun Award, Rocky Mountain Section of American Association of Petroleum Geologists, honoring outstanding publications and science communication. Outdoor educator/geologist: Museum of Northern Arizona, Grand Canyon Field Institute; Smithsonian Associates, National Geographic Expeditions, Southwest Seminars.
A Virtual River Trip in Grand Canyon
$20 AT THE DOOR – OR – $95 FOR THE SERIES OF 5 LECTURES
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