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OP-ED: KAYLEIGH WARREN

SEVENTH GENERATION YOUTH GATHERING FOR THE PROTECTION OF GREATER CHACO

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n July 8, youth, elders and community members from the 18 Pueblo villages, the Hopi tribe, Navajo Nation, Comanche, Gila River, Jicarilla Apache, Mescalero Apache, Ute, Yaqui, Cheyenne, Lakota, Arapaho, Choctaw and Shawnee Nations came together at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico, for the Seventh Generation Youth Gathering for the Protection of Greater Chaco. This event, hosted by Diné-Pueblo Youth Solidarity, the All Pueblo Council of Governors, Tewa Women United, and Communities for Clean Water, was held specifically for tribal youth, tribal youth councils of Pueblo and Diné nations, and tribal leadership. Our families and community members were welcome to attend.

There is a growing movement among Southwestern indigenous youth to actively re-engage.

for tribal youth leadership development.

The goals of the gathering were to help youth understand the significance of our connection as tribal community members to cultural resources, natural resources and economic sustainability; to explain how the extractive industry (and other land-based industries) has imposed detrimental impacts to community, physical, spiritual and financial health; and to foster meaningful discussion of hopeful, engaging solutions. The spirit of unity and power embodied by the intergenerational gathering was a testament to our resilience and commitment to our tribal

communities and nations, looking seven generations into the future for solutions that drive our present actions.

For non-Native scientific, environmental and archaeological communities, the Greater Chaco area exists in a cloud of wonder and mystery. It is the epicenter of ancient Southwestern culture—a desolate place where the relentless desert sun beats down on scattered ruins. They often see Four Corners sites like Chaco Canyon as merely figments of the past— broken, abandoned places, as they sift through the area’s rich resources seeking

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Inspired by the historic joint session between the All Pueblo Council and Navajo Nation in Februar y, and in light of the growing movement among Southwestern indigenous youth to actively re-engage in the protection of the life-affirming resources that have sustained our peoples since the beginning, the gathering focused on the complex situation of the Greater Chaco region and as a way to present opportunities

Diné-Pueblo Youth, the Pueblo Action Alliance and Kewa Truth Council were among the groups attending the gathering, which was organized by a team of young Native women. It was a historic day of learning.

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knowledge. But for this land’s timeless caretakers, the descendents of those who built and inhabited the Greater Chaco landscape, this land breathes with us. It is a spiritual sanctuary, a direct connection to our history and the teachings of our ancestors.

Our indigenous world has been occupied by the biggest capitalist consumer nation in the world. It is based on the cheap exploitation of natural resources like oil and gas. This blessed, sacred area has been designated a “national sacrifice zone,” a resource colony, and since then, the Four Corners region and her peoples have been forced to suffer impacts of oil, gas, ur anium mining and other mineral extraction operations.

For the sake of our sustainability as indigenous people who have relied on the gifts of our Mother for life since time immemorial, it is imperative that our lifeways are not secondary any longer, and that the sacrifice comes to an end.

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has been auctioning public lands to oil and gas companies at an irresponsible, rampant CONTINUED ON PAGE 8

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There is great concern about the encroachment of these fracking wells in the greater Chaco region, an area outside the boundaries of the national park. Chaco is a designated UNESCO World Heritage Site. According to the San Juan Citizens Alliance, 91 percent of northwest New Mexico’s state and federal lands have already been auctioned off, with the remaining 9 percent in the greater Chaco region in danger of being soon to follow. There are over 18,000 oil and gas wells in northern New Mexico, with one well inspector per 4,285 wells in that area.

The BLM continues to lease public lands without having completed an analysis o f t h e c u mu l a t i v e impacts to the social, environmental and cultural health of not only our Native brothers and sisters, but of all affected demographics. Tribal nations are entitled to free, prior and informed consent.

It is long overdue that BLM is held accountable for violating federal Indian trust responsibilities.

also to deeply listen to, learn from and offer support to our Diné brothers and sisters of the frontline communities in the trichapter area of the Navajo Nation, whose physical and spiritual well-being is being worn down by the concentrated desecration of our shared natural and cultural resources in the Greater Chaco landscape.

Although we are continually healing from generations of historical trauma at the hands of the federal government, we are collectivel y empowered by our core values as indigenous people to revitalize our sovereignty, our rights and responsibility to determine the longevity of our living history and health of our communities, now and for generations into the future. ■

This blessed, sacred area has been designated a “national sacrifice zone.”

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rate. In recent years, there has been a revolving door of corrupt officials expediting the industries’ access to public lands. This will intensify under the agenda of the new federal administration. Fracking and oil and gas wells in the Four Corners number in the tens of thousands. Each of those wells is a threat to our watersheds and land-based existence. Recent developments in horizontal drilling have changed the game in the energy industry and are creating toxic reservoirs and countless, largely unregulated wells. Each well uses over 5 million gallons of water, mixed with toxic chemicals and injected into the ground. This “fracking fluid” has been known to contaminate groundwater sources. Radioactive “fluid flowback” is stored in aboveground pits.

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For generations, young people of tribal communities have been raised to act with heart, empathy and bravery. As young leaders who genuinely believe in the principles of loving and caring for one another, our resources and Mother Earth, we feel compelled to be active—not only in the preservation of our sacred sites—but

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K ayleigh War ren is from Santa Clara and Isleta pueblos. She is the co-founder and ch a i r w o m a n o f t h e Santa Clara Pueblo Youth Council and a co-founder of the Diné-Pueblo Youth Solidarity Coalition. She serves as a youth representative to the All Pueblo Council of Governors’ Greater Chaco Landscape Committee. She is 19 years old and a freshman at the University of New Mexico.

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THREATS TO OUR SACRED LANDS AND CULTURAL PATRIMONY Thank you for taking the time to meet with us.

As you know, Pueblos in New Mexico are faced with increased threats to our sacred lands that are no longer part of our reservations. This is exemplified by the concern of the Pueblos with proposed fracking near Chaco Canyon that is to be addressed in the 2017 Resource Management P lan Amendment by the Bureau of Land Management. The New Mexico House of Representatives underscored the need for our communities to have tribal input in discussions about the protection of Chaco Canyon as outlined in House Memorial 70, introduced by Rep. Derrick Lente from the Sandia and Isleta pueblos in the most recent legislative session.

We are taught by our parents and grandparents the way of life that honors and respects everyone and everything.

Our ancestors sacrificed a tremendous amount to make sure our lands, cultural patrimony-heritage, and other essential elements critical to maintain our way of life, culture and language are sustained and fulfilled, to be passed on to future generations. As youth we are faced with the threat of not having these essential elements to pass on, when access or damage to sacred lands becomes a challenge and cultural patrimony leaves our communities and appears on auction blocks. These disruptions have a huge impact on our ability to fulfill our sacred trust to maintain a way of life as gifted to us by our Creator.

This threatens our existence as a people.

Therefore, legislation such as the STOP Act, introduced by Sen. Heinrich, is a critical step to protect our sacred items. The PROTECT Patrimony resolution carried

by Rep. Steve Pearce was an important first step in condemning the harmful impact of the loss of our sacred items.

The public conversation regarding the protection of our cultural resources needs to go to a deeper level to convey that we have a life-or-death connection to what we are fighting for. In particular, our cultural patrimony and sacred items have great meaning to us and we must take the extra step to express what we have been taught

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and help defend our ancestors’ sacrifices.

The use of our knowledge and way of thinking reflecting our core values may give others the perspective to recognize that there is a tremendous amount of meaning and reason behind our fight.

The creation of our life started out as a circle of gifts coming from our Creator.

Since the beginning of time we were blessed with many gifts such as life, land and these sacred items to be used in ceremony. Each item, land and life connects us to our identity and core values. Core values such as love, respect and culture were gifted to us by our Creator and passed on to us from one generation to another since time immemorial. These values help define what is expected of us as family and community members. Without our cultural patrimony and sacred items, we risk the disruption of our ties to our Creator and the loss of our core values.

An increasing amount of historic tribal lands and sacred sites are now part of state monuments, state parks, national parks, national forests and designated wilderness areas. These places are our footprints, tying us to our Creator. Unfortunately, there are now restrictions that limit our access to these areas that we have long used for ceremony and pilgrimages. We want to be able to teach our younger generations our traditional way of life and how to use and respect the land.

Sen. Heinrich hears from CarlyJo Chavarría, KeShaun Shendo and former Cochiti Pueblo governor Regis Pecos on the importance of protecting sacred tribal items.

the opportunity for Pueblos to have adequate consultation in dealing with development and be able to comment on the potential impacts to sacred sites such as Chaco Canyon. ■

Our sacred items are gifts and tools to sustain a way of life through ceremonies.

We use these items to educate ourselves with the values that our ancestors gave us. Our generation is faced with growing challenges unseen by previous generations.

Language and culture are very fragile and are directly threatened by limited access to traditional sites, disruptions to ceremonies and sacred items “missing” or stolen. Failing to protect our sacred objects and maintain access to our lands could end the circle of life. Without both, future generations and those yet to be born are robbed of the right to a way of life. The knowledge and means for our generations to fulfill their sacred trust to future generations is destroyed.

We ask for your support of the STOP Act and continued efforts to return sacred items. We also ask your support to provide

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CarlyJo Chavarría (Santa Clara Pueblo/ Pyramid Lake Paiute) and KeShaun Shendo ( Jémez Pueblo) are fellows in the Santa Fe Indian School’s Summer Policy Academy.

BILL TO SAFEGUARD SACRED ITEMS INTRODUCED U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M) has introduced the bipartisan Safeguard Tribal Objects of Patrimony (STOP) Act, a bill to prohibit the exportation of sacred Native American items and increase penalties for stealing and trafficking tribal cultural patrimony.

The bill’s cosponsors include U.S. Senators Jeff Tribal leaders, government officials, directors of cultural Flake (R-Ariz.), Tom Udall programs and the director of the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture met in Santa Fe in 2016 to endorse (D-N.M.), John McCain the protection of sacred tribal objects.

(R-Ariz.) and four others.

The bill has been endorsed by tribes across Indian Country, as well the All Pueblo Council of Governors, the National Congress of American Indians and the United South and Eastern Tribes Sovereignty Protection Fund.

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Sen. Heinrich announced the legislation at a meeting in his Washington, D.C. office with students from the Santa Fe Indian School Leadership Institute’s Summer Policy Academy, which focuses on leadership development, public policy and community issues.

Sen. Heinrich said, “We can recognize a clear difference between supporting tribal artists or collecting artifacts ethically and legally as opposed to dealing or exporting items that tribes have identified as essential and sacred pieces of their cultural heritage. We need to take all possible action to stop the latter and help repatriate stolen culturally significant items to their rightful owners.”

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VOICES FROM A CHACO COMMUNITY why the enormous quantity of turquoise artifacts and offerings at Pueblo Bonito was brought to Chaco by people from distances of hundreds of miles. And even less is known about the end of Chaco—the careful sealing up of the kivas, removal of the roofs, and the final fires that scorched the inner walls after 250 years of building 10 immense great-houses.

Much has been written and researched a b o u t C h a c o’s v a s t a s t ro n o m i c a l architecture and political influence over a 95,000-square-mile “empire” that extended into Utah, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico and beyond. Less is known about

Today, the Chaco landscape and the living communities remain—and both are highly threatened by a renewed drive by the oil industry for a final “play” in Mancos shale extraction. The gamble is a big one. As the world’s energy economy is rapidly

What is known is that in 1100 A.D. the Southwest entered a prolonged drought and that Chacoans migrated away, leaving small communities behind that returned to subsistence farming.

BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT PROMISES PROTECTION FOR CHACO Over the last five years, hundreds of new oil and gas wells approved by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM), mostly near Navajo communities, have been drilled and hydraulically fractured (fracked) in the Greater Chaco Canyon region of northwest New Mexico as horizontal drilling has been used to tap the Mancos shale formation.

Horizontal wells have double the surface impact (5.2 acres) of vertical wells, emit more than 250 percent more air pollution, require 5-10 times more water, and utilize a toxic cocktail known to include carcinogens and chemicals harmful to human health.

Earlier this year, the Navajo Nation and the All Pueblo Council of Governors called for a moratorium on fracking-related activities in the region until the current resource-management planning process is complete. The request came on the heels of demands from 15 Navajo Nation chapters’ resolutions and letters from more than 100 organizations represented by the Protect Greater Chaco Coalition.

A final scoping report released on June 6 by the BLM and the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) offers hope for safeguarding what some call “the cultural heart of the American Southwest” from a surge in oil and gas production. It presents a thorough accounting of the more than 15,000 comments received opposing more fracking in the region and presents an outline for the agencies’ new plan for managing oil and gas activities. If the promises in the scoping report are followed, the new management plan will address tribal interests, social and cultural issues, economic, environmental and public health issues. It will address climate change, air, water and soil impacts, seismic activity, wildlife, livestock grazing, night-sky impacts, traffic and roads, recreation, archaeological resources—and the area of greatest public concern—landscape-wide cultural protection.

The planning area encompasses 6,500 square miles of federal, state, tribal and private lands. The next step for the BLM and BIA is to prepare a draft analysis for the new plan, which the agencies expect to release in the fall of 2018. The planning process for the region is to be completed by 2020. In the meantime, the BLM continues to approve more fracking wells and lease more land for oil and gas in Greater Chaco.

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A site at Chaco Canyon

shifting to renewable energy, the rusting infrastructure and escalating impacts of oil and gas extraction are destroying much of the rural West and sickening rural Oil tanker on its way to the Highway 550 turnoff communities. to Chaco Culture National Historical Park One small Navajo community, located near a county road that leads west off Highway 550 toward the great Chaco outlier at Pueblo Pintado, has looked at the current wave of new oil wells moving into the area and has decided the time for balance between profit and survival has come.

Counselor Chapter has fewer than 850 residents. The community school in Lybrook is located less than one-half mile from several active oil wells. Since 2015 local families have discussed their growing health problems and safety issues at public meetings, scoping sessions with the Bureau of Land Management and Bureau of Indian Affairs and at chapter gatherings. Similar stories of impacts from oil development have simultaneously emerged in the Navajo chapters of Nageezi, Ojo Encino, TorreónStar Lake and Huerfano.

In May 2016, a Counselor area sheep grower told chapter members: Yes, it bothers me. My lambs are being born deformed. My family, father, sister have medical issues. It really smells. The people doing the work must have no sympathy for us. The drillers are all over the place. You can’t just let the cattle go free. They might go to the site and eat some of the dirt, grass, or whatever is there. I think what the drillers are doing needs to stop right now. They can frack and drill beside allotments near my homesite. They told me they can even

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drill right next door. The road is getting really busy. Trucks go really fast, and it’s really dangerous.

Other residents report persistent health problems they believe are related to living in proximity to multiple oil wells. Some say emissions from flaring have caused dizziness, nose and throat irritation, fatigue, nosebleeds, coughing, shortness of breath and chest pain. Persistent odors from the wells are said to have caused nausea, headaches and an inability to concentrate. There has been an increase in sleeping difficulty because of the noise from compressors and well equipment, while light pollution and constant traffic have caused irritability, anxiety, depression and anger. Oil company trucks and tankers speed on narrow dirt roads and cut across residents’ land.

The Counselor Chapter drafted a resolution that reads, in part: “Counselor Chapter requests assistance to secure funding to conduct health impact assessments, baseline water and soil testing and air quality monitoring for the impacted acres.”

In meetings throughout the Ne w Mexico portion of the Navajo Nation—from Becenti to Whitehouse to Pueblo Pintado—11 other chapters passed similar resolutions that begin: “The Chapter is against all pending and future federal fluid mineral

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haco Canyon is one of the most unchanged ancient landscapes in the entire world. Chacoan architecture provides an unparalleled example of an ancient scientific ability to measure the Earth’s relationship to the heavens by recoråding solar cycles, lunar phases and the exact hours of darkness and light during the spring and fall equinoxes. Chaco was the astronomical center of the ancient Pueblo world. It unleashed the power of predictability and knowledge of time and seasons that governed, and still govern, human activity, availability of food and the success or failure of a subsistence culture.

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BLM leases within Navajo Eastern Agency areas until a reasonable revenuesharing mechanism is developed, a new Farmington Field Office Resource Management P lan Amendment is developed, and a full understanding of potential environmental and health impacts of horizontal hydraulic fracturing is developed.”

The voices raised in Counselor have been heard and repeated in chapters throughout the greater Chaco area that are being explored for oil and gas. This year, several steps have been taken to draw attention to the living communities around the area. Air and water samples

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are now being collected and analyzed in a Navajo citizen-driven and citizenfunded effort.

Newly elected Representative Derrick Lente successfully crafted a Memorial titled the “Protection of the Greater Chaco Landscape” that passed the New Mexico House of Representatives. Navajo President Russell Begay and All Pueblo Governors Council had a historic meeting and wrote a letter stating their ancient connections to Chaco and their concern for the communities being impacted.

Ancient Chaco provides all people with a way to understand the Earth’s

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The All Pueblo Council of Governors and the Navajo Nation president and vice-president held a summit in February to discuss protection of sacred sites in the greater Chaco region.

Navajo leaders and residents of Counselor stand with Rep. Lente (far right), sponsor of HM 70, Protection of Chaco Landscape, which passed the New Mexico House in 2017.

relationship to the heavens. It is a lesson on how far people have traveled for that knowledge, motivated by the belief that we can control the chaos on Earth by matching human activity to the precise order of the sun’s hours and the moon’s phases. It shows us how to time the growing of food based on the seasons, how to predict rainfall and animal abundance, and it provides understanding about the scale of nature’s

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ability to change, destroy and regenerate.

The canyon landscape is irreplaceable. The descendants who remain and live in the small communities that surround Chaco are the keepers of that time and heritage. ■ Teresa Seamster is member of the Counselor Health Impact Assessment Committee.

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WE TOO HAVE A HISTORY!

Reflections on Kaafedeh (Blowing Leaf ) – Herman Agoyo To the Pueblo people here, Po’pay is our hero.

Tribes were on the verge of losing their cultural identity when the Pueblo Revolt brought everything back on track for our people. – Herman Agoyo

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his past April, our respected elder, educator and councilman, Herman Agoyo, walked on with all those who came before. At Ohkay Owingeh, he was known as a former governor, religious leader, farmer, father and friend. He built a lifelong legacy of bringing the stories and experiences of Native people to the forefront.

I’m honored to be one of many who have been influenced by Herman’s knowledge and wisdom.

and experiencing history. This was, in his belief and Tewa practices, pursued through oral traditions, working with the land, in ceremonies, as well as by the scholarly pursuit of documenting stories. In one of his last published articles, in 2010 Herman recalled, “In many ways my love of history and the search for Yungeh’s past has greatly influenced my life. As a child ‘helping’ my Grandpa plant his fields—an incident that I still vividly remember—during one of the corn planting times was the revelation of the plow splitting a black pot in half. This occurred during my rest period, but Grandpa stopped the horse and waved me over to the spot where he stood. I was witness to see the broken pot, which also contained white corn meal. Although I was young, I realized that this was an important connection to our past.

I also remember later, as a young man, attending a tribal council meeting with my mother where the subject of excavating the site and building a museum was discussed. It was decided that the ancient Yungeh past was important not only for its archaeological value but also as a reconnection to our ancestors. It was further decided, with the full cooperation of the residents that lived on the site, to have it excavated. It seemed that much of my life’s path was determined.”

(White Shell Water Place, 2010)

Perhaps Herman’s most prominent contribution was successfully leading the charge to honor the legacy of Po’pay.

Herman loved history.

He was passionate about sharing personal stories of his childhood and connecting them to our pueblo’s experiences. He often conveyed mixed emotions about education while growing up: “As a child I was very fortunate to have a grandpa who, during the winter months, shared with me many fireside stories… I was being taught Indian history, but because Indian history was not written down and presented in school, I grew up thinking that we did not have a history.”

(Archaeologies of the Pueblo Revolt, 2007)

His life pathway—p’ôe—was one he clearly

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Herman had a meticulous sense of understanding the varied ways of reading

Ohkay Owingeh tribal officials and Eagle dancer in front of Po’pay statue by Cliff Fragua (Jémez), prior to its 2005 installation in National Statuary Hall in Washington, D.C.

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Herman Agoyo participating in a Deer Dance at Ohkay Owingeh

carved out as a governor, cultural warrior and advocate for education. As a freshman at the University of New Mexico in 1993, I vividly recall attending a public forum at the Salt of the Earth Bookstore titled We Are Still Here: A Response to When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away. The place was standingroom-only and filled with community leaders, academics and students in response to a recent controversial publication by Ramón Gutiérrez. In my personal archives, I was able to locate a series of articles that included Herman’s passionate responses.

“Frankly, I’m not too happy to be here,” Agoyo said. “I didn’t expect so many people—although this is the year of the Indigenous people.” Herman’s objections to the book were based on the notion that the Pueblo Indians were misrepresented in the Spanish accounts on which the book was based. “I look at a book to benefit all of mankind,” he said. “The subject at hand does not benefit the Indian people. It benefits the author. When these kinds of books and articles appear, it only drives a wedge between Pueblos and others. I thought the Indian Wars were over, but they still continue.” (New Mexico Daily Lobo, 1993) Perhaps Herman’s most prominent contribution was successfully leading the charge to honor the legacy of Po’pay (Ripe Pumpkin) as one of our state’s leaders in the National Statutory Hall in Washington, D.C. Prior to the statue’s installation in 2005, Herman organized a collective effort to raise awareness about the legacy

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of Po’pay—leader of the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. From the onset, this was a contentious undertaking. A sector of New Mexicans felt that acknowledging Po’pay would be an embarrassment to the state and that honoring such a figure would be condoning violence and would put the Catholic Church and traditions that represent New Mexico in an unfavorable light.

Herman’s efforts brought public light to the Spanish suppressions of indigenous practices, hangings and lashings in the 1600s. According to Herman, “Po’pay organized a ‘Holy War’ against the Spanish with support of most of the Pueblos. Much like the war between England and the American colonies in 1776, the Pueblo Holy War was fought to regain our independence from Spanish rule and to end religious oppression. I have no doubt that Po’ Pay, or El Pope, as the Spanish called him, was a religious leader. It makes sense to me that a holy war would be planned and executed by such a man, and from my point of view, such a spiritual man would indeed draw on our ancient deities such as Poseyemo, Caudi, Tilimipovi and Tleume for guidance and instruction.” (Po’Pay Leader of the First American Revolution, 2015) Because of Herman’s steadfast dedication to highlight Pueblo history, the state of New Mexico is better situated to appreciate the experiences of all of its people. Herman copublished Po’Pay Leader of the First American Revolution with noted Jémez Pueblo historian CONTINUED ON PAGE 14

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Joe S. Sando. This is now a standard textbook for many high schools and colleges teaching New Mexico history. August 2017 marks 337 years since the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. The legacy of leaders like Po’pay is ever present in the continuance of Pueblo people, traditions and languages. Herman taught us that we are all here because of the work of our ancestors.

Matthew J. Martínez, Ph.D., is currently serving as 1st lieutenant governor at Ohkay Owingeh.

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At Ohkay Owingeh, Herman was actively engaged in farming and sharing what he grew among neighbors. With striking colors of bright yellows and deep greens, he was extremely proud of his heirloom melons and squash. These practices of land-based traditions are what sustain the histories and experiences of a people. Through his Tewa sensibilities, working with his hands was practiced in the same manner as writing the histories of Pueblo people. Herman’s life passion confirmed, in his words, that “we too have a history!” ■

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Today in the United States, there are more than 500 federally recognized indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the 15 million Native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the U.S. settler-colonial regimen has largely been omitted from history.

Now, for the first time, acclaimed historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz offers a history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples and reveals how Native Americans, for centuries, actively resisted expansion of the U.S. empire.

With growing support for movements such as the campaign to abolish Columbus Day and replace it with Indigenous Peoples’ Day, and the Dakota Access Pipeline protest led by the Standing Rock Sioux, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States is an essential resource providing historical threads that are crucial for understanding the present. With rigorous scholarship, DunbarOrtiz adroitly challenges the founding myth of the United States and shows how policy against the indigenous peoples was designed to seize the territories of the original inhabitants, displacing or eliminating them. She reveals that this policy was praised in popular culture, through writers like James Fenimore Cooper and Walt Whitman, and in the highest offices of government and the military. Dunbar-Ortiz also discusses the ways that plants and animals and the land itself have been targeted and have suffered through colonization.

Spanning more than 400 years, this classic bottom-up peoples’ history radically reframes U.S. history and explodes the silences that have haunted our national narrative. Dunbar-Ortiz argues for a distinctly indigenist approach that integrates tribal knowledge, indigenous practices and ongoing and potential future efforts to create social change as necessary for developing robust and accurate histories.

An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States won the 2015 PEN OaklandJosephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature.

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DEBRA HAALAND CONTINUES THE LEGACY OF NATIVE WOMEN LEADERS

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A former New Mexico Democratic Party state chair (the first Native American to chair a state party), Haaland ran unsuccessfully for lieutenant governor on the ticket with then-Attorney Gen. Gary King in 2014. She has a background in business management and economic development. She is former chairwoman of Laguna Development Corp., which runs the pueblo’s businesses. A graduate of the University of New Mexico and its law school, Haaland has also worked as a tribal administrator and has done a lot of grassroots organizing.

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While chairwoman, Haaland went to Standing Rock, South Dakota, in support of the “water protectors,” and divested the party’s funds from Wells Fargo because of its investment in the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Haaland has said that she wants to double down on New Mexico’s renewable energy; she sees solar as the way of the future. She also wants to improve veterans’ services and strengthen the state’s public education system.

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ebra Haaland, from Laguna Pueblo, hopes to become the first Native American woman elected to the U.S. Congress. She is running in the June 2018 Democratic primary against three contenders who seek to fill the open seat that has been held by Michelle Lujan Grisham in New Mexico’s 1 st Congressional District. Grisham is running for governor.

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Debra Haaland continues the legacy of Native American women leaders such as Agnes Dill and Verna Teller.

Agnes Dill (1913–2012) Dill (Isleta/Laguna) was an educator, cultural ambassador and staunch advocate for Indian women’s rights. In the 1960s she became active in tribal affairs at Isleta Pueblo, ser ving as assistant director of the Community Action Program. She was appointed clerk of the tribal court, where she became active in voting rights. In 1976, she was a member of a committee whose efforts to amend the tribal constitution set in motion the reform necessary to e l e c t t h e t r i b e ’s f i r s t woman governor, Verna Teller. Dill went on to cofound the New Mexico state chapter of the North American Indian Women’s Association (NAIWA) in 1971, initiated a study for setting up a job/talent bank for Indian women, and was appointed by President Gerald Ford to the National Advisor y Council on

Women’s Educational Programs. Later she was elected president of the New Mexico Indian Council on Aging and received many distinguished awards for community service.

Verna Teller Verna Olguín Teller was the first woman governor of Isleta Pueblo, serving from 1987 to 1990. Following her tenure as governor, Teller served as the pueblo’s chief justice, president of the Tribal Council and as a council member.

Teller went on to ser ve as project manager for the Native Peoples-Native Homelands Southwest Initiative, a project sponsored

by NASA to examine the effects of climate change on Native Americans. As project director for Tribal Tobacco Health, Education and Outreach, she helped de velop c ancer pre vention p ro g r a m s t h ro u g h I n d i a n H e a l t h S er vices, the Centers for Disease Control and the American Cancer Society.

“I feel like as a woman, and a woman of color, in this time… it’s so important for our voices to be heard out there.”

Under her guidance, Isleta Pueblo became the first tribe in the United States to assert its right under federal law to establish water-quality standards. In the 1990s, as the city of Albuquerque grew by leaps and bounds, the Río Grande became so foul that, as governor of the pueblo immediately downstream, Teller decided that she had no choice but to challenge the city. With help from the Environmental Protection Agency, she invoked a littleknown provision in the Clean Water Act to assert her tribe’s right to establish its own water-quality standards. The city

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filed suit to prevent Isleta’s standards from taking effect. The city lost. In the final appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1998, the tribe’s right to establish its own water-quality standards was upheld. From Maine to California, dozens of tribes have since followed Isleta’s lead.

During her career as a political and community leader, in the face of adversity, discrimination and uncertainty, Teller’s political leadership and civic activism have had a lasting impact on the people in her community. ■

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SANTA CLARA PUEBLO’S RESERVED TREATY RIGHTS LANDS PROGRAM TALAVAI DENIPAH-COOK

In 2002 and 2003, extensive wildfires swept across the West and devastated tribal communities.

The Spanish Crown believed that all lands of the American continents were under the “the Rights of Conquest” and “the Law of Nations.” However, as determined by the Queen and the Spanish Royal Council, the “already acquired rights of indigenous people found in the lands discovered

by Spain” were to be excluded from the sweeping territorial assumption (Hall, “Pueblo Grant Labyrinth,” 71-73). Indian tribes were to “be left in possession of all lands belonging to them, either individually or in communities, with the waters and irrigation streams and the lands which they have drained or otherwise improved, whereby they may, by their own industry, have rendered fertile, are reserved in the first place, and in no case be sold or alienated” (Warren, 1991; Jenkins, 1961).

Santa Clara Indians have stated that their ancestors did indicate the boundaries of their homelands to the Spaniards (Warren, 1991; I.C.C Testimony, 1953).

The Spanish, however, did not view Santa Clara “indigenous land area” according to

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the boundaries of the “People of the Valley of the Wild Roses’” ancestral homeland.

To the Spanish, “all the land…that belongs… to individuals…” would most likely have meant solares (town lots) and suertes (farming lots). Considering that Santa Clara’s boundary markers were shrines, sacred springs and areas of special religious significance, it is easy to understand why this information was not provided in detail to the occupying forces. During this time, the Spanish had a fervent interest in destroying the “heathenistic and devilish” religious practices and beliefs of the natives. In and before 1680 (the Pueblo Revolt), a great number of Spanish documents pertaining to New Mexico were destroyed, erasing records, along with laws and regulations and how they were implemented, so much remains unclear and unknown. For this and other reasons, land grants and rights, first under Spain and then México—including those specifically regarding Indians—may have been just as unclear to the local Spaniards and Indians at that time as they are to historians today. SCP acknowledged the boundaries superimposed by the Spaniards (even as twisted and incorrect as they were, due to many prejudiced practices). The people of SCP retained their ancestral homelands’ boundaries in beliefs, tradition, and (to whatever extent possible), practice.

During the Mexican Era (1821–1846) these attitudes and the general neglect of the pueblos by civil and religious authorities became more pronounced. All of the property and the “inhabitants” of New Spain were guaranteed protection under México; thus Santa Clara and other land grants in the vicinity were reaffirmed.

On Aug. 18, 1846, the forces of the United States’ “Army of the West” entered New Mexico and obtained the surrender of New Mexico’s political leaders in Santa Fe. Pueblo Indians met the new American government and requested that something be done to restore the lands stolen from them by Spanish and Mexican settlers.

Many years of turmoil, arguments and litigation ensued. Yet in 1894, in the Court of Private Land Claims, SCP made progress, even if facts and boundaries were incorrect.

The court confirmed SCP’s claim to the Cañada de Santa Clara Grant. Though surveys and re-surveys, arguments and more

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anta Clara Pueblo (SCP) (Kha’po Owingeh) considers the Jémez Mountains adjacent to the current reservation boundary as ancestral lands of critical importance. During the late 1400s, SCP’s ancestors, the “People of the Valley of the Wild Roses,” came to possess and use their “homeland” almost exclusively.

Through the 16th and 17th centuries, the establishment and gradual expansion into the region by nomadic tribes, as well as by Spanish and Hispanicized populations, had very little impact on the pueblo’s use of the lands. Historically and currently, in addition to hunting and fishing, these lands provide necessities such as medicinal plants, piñón nuts, dyes, edible roots, berries and other vegetable products; salt, flint, obsidian, clay and many other mineral products; wood for fuel and construction; and materials for making soaps, clothing, basketry, cosmetics, ornaments and other things.These lands have also, of course, had traditional religious uses.

Forested land near Santa Clara Pueblo’s ancestral Puye cliff dwellings

litigation would continue for 13 years, many challenges lay ahead in the final boundary determination. As a result, a patent for the “shoestring grant” was established.

However, in the end, none of 26,228-acre claimed lands would be included within the boundaries of the patent.

Protection of SCP’s OffReservation Tribal Resources Presently, Santa Clara’s highest offreservation priority is the protection of Tribal Indian Trust Resources from fire, floods, insects, disease or other threats coming from outside lands under jurisdiction of the U.S. Forest Service (USFS), National Park Service (NPS), Bureau of Land Management (BLM), as well as other adjacent state and private lands. This extends into areas identified

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Santa Clara Pueblo Governor J. Michael Chavarria, VCNP Superintendent Jorge Silva-Banuelos, VCNP Chief Scientist Robert Parmenter and staff on the Valles Caldera National Preserve

by SCP for the protection of natural and cultural resources.

In 2002 and 2003, extensive wildfires originating on national forests or other federal lands swept across the West and devastated tribal communities. Lives were lost and resources held in trust by the U.S. for the benefit of Indians were severely damaged.The Tribal Forest Protection Act of 2004 (TFPA) was passed in the aftermath in order to provide a means for tribes to propose projects that would protect their rights, lands and resources.

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helping the U.S. fulfill its responsibilities to protect the trust corpus, while promoting restoration of healthy forest ecosystems.

Under the TFPA, the secretaries of Agriculture and Interior are authorized through the Reserved Treaty Rights Lands Program (RTRL) to enter into agreements or contracts pursuant to tribal proposals to address hazardous conditions on USFS or BLM lands adjacent to tribal trust lands.

In January 2011, a former SCP governor submitted a request to utilize the TFPA to enter into agreements for co-management and stewardship contracting on USFS lands sharing a common boundary with the SCP Reservation. SCP also identified National Forest System lands adjacent to the reservation that included the Valles Caldera National Preser ve (VCNP). These lands were turned over to the National Park Service.

Approximately 90 percent of the Santa Clara Creek Watershed is located within SCP lands; 10 percent is on USFS lands. There are shared boundaries of forested lands between SCP and the USFS. The proposed projects were implemented by the SCP Forestry Program to improve forest health through thinning, insect and disease control work, the implementation of fuel breaks, hazardous fuel reduction, acceleration of forest management activities in aspen stands, restoration of subalpine meadows, improvement of wildlife habitat and protection of cultural resources.

to wildland fire and meet historic Fire Regime Condition Class I. Priority landscapes are being treated by a myriad of prescriptions with the focus to renew and restore degraded, damaged, or destroyed ecosystems and habitats. Many of the projects are reservation-wide, from the bosque (riparian woodlands) corridor (altitude of 5,500 feet) to the sub-alpine ecosystem at the highest elevation of the reservation (11,000 feet). SCP’s Forest and Woodland Restoration Management plans place emphasis on accelerating recovery of multiple ecosystems with respect to the health, resiliency, integrity and sustainability of the ecosystem. Many prescribed treatments are implemented right up to and along tribal reservation boundaries. Adjacent f eder al or pr ivate lands have few or no activities taking place “across the fence ” which poses threats t o S C P ’s m a j o r investments to protect tribal trust resources.

The people retained their ancestral homelands’ boundaries in beliefs, traditions, and practice.

SCP and the VCNP share a common boundary on the west end of the reservation.

With the turnover of the lands to the NPS, SCP must now utilize the authorities of the National Indian Forest Management Act (NIFMA) and the National Defense Authorization Act (December 2014) to establish co-management and enter into cooperative agreements with the NPS to perform land and facility improvements, including forestry and other natural resources protection.

Collaboration and co-management of these lands has been under discussion and planning with the responsible agencies and will continue as additional resources are identified and developed. SCP has invested millions of dollars into ecological restoration projects for tribal landscapes due to three wildfires that occurred during the last 18 years. Landscape treatments are to provide long-term ecologic resilience

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Pueblos and other tribes such as Taos, Picurís, Tesuque, Jémez, Santa Ana, Acoma and Mescalero Apache have all been awarded the RTRL program.

As this is a fairly new initiative, it is difficult to broach new ideas and projects with outside agencies. At the beginning of 2017, the pueblos with the RTRL program decided to start a coalition to support each other. As the pueblos’ RTRL programs continue to be planned and implemented, outside agencies are required to take into consideration our issues and concerns.

Our mission statement is shared with outside agencies: “Strengthening and maintaining healthy sustainable tribal relationships by building partnerships for collaborative resiliency to enhance our forested lands, natural and cultural resources, while respecting traditional values for co-management of aboriginal lands for future generations.” Q Talavai Denipah-Cook is the Reserved Treaty Rights Lands program coordinator for Santa Clara Pueblo. She is from Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo, Hopi and the Diné Nation. She has a bachelor’s degree in Environmental and Organismic Biology with a Geographic Information Systems Certificate. Her goal is to protect native lands and keep them resilient.

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REIMAGINING THE BUFFALO COMMONS STEPHEN WALL

To look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense of proportion. Your imagination comes to life, and this, you think, is where Creation was begun.

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hen I was a young man, I used to go to work on my uncle’s ranch for a couple of weeks each summer. I marked lambs, branded calves and helped with the myriad of tasks that needed to be done on that 70-square-mile ranch about 80 miles north of Roswell, New Mexico. On those high plains, I learned to appreciate the land as an undulating ocean of grass, hills and valleys. I enjoyed the exhilaration of space. There was a high point overlooking the valley that held the ranch headquarters, and from that hill I could look west and see the tops of the highest peaks in the Sacramento Mountains, a place I consider my spiritual home. If I looked east, I saw the land descending towards the Pecos River under a great sky that stretched from horizon to horizon.

I was caught in the rapture of space and imagination. I bathed in the spiritual power of that place. As I have ventured into the Plains many times in the last few decades, that spiritual connection has been renewed.

A new paradigm for resource management in which the “Commons” provides the foundation for the economy

The Buffalo Commons In December 1987, Deborah and Frank Popper co-authored an essay that appeared in Planning Magazine. In The Great Plains: From Dust to Dust, the Poppers coined the phrase “Buffalo Commons.” The concept was that the challenges of economic development on the Great Plains presented an opportunity to create a new paradigm for resource management, one in which the “Commons” would provide the foundation for the economy. The Buffalo Commons was seen as that great open space in the middle of the continent; short-grass prairie bounded by the 98th parallel to the east and the Rocky Mountains to the west, south as far as San Antonio and north to where the Canadian plains gave way to northern forests.

The Buffalo Commons is a conceptual proposal for the voluntary creation of a vast nature preserve by returning 139,000 square miles of the drier portion of the Great Plains to native prairie, and by reintroducing the American bison that once grazed the shortgrass prairie. The pace of rural depopulation may aid aspects of the proposal, which would affect ten states.

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The Poppers had an exclusively economic argument for the creation of the Buffalo Commons. In each state that contains a portion the Commons, the counties within the Commons had extremely low populations, averaging fewer than s persons per square mile. The largest city within the Commons was Lubbock, Texas, with Denver sitting at the western edge, relying more on the resources of the mountains than the plains.

In a later article, The Buffalo Commons: Its Antecedents and Their Implications (2006), the Poppers pointed out that all of the development that took place on the Commons occurred in an environment of massive federal subsidy and continual crisis-based economic insecurity. The Homestead Act brought people to the Plains with the promise of free land, land that became federal land through land cessions by Indian tribes, some by consent, most by force. Weather and a national financial panic depopulated the Commons in the 1890s and again in the Dust Bowl era of the 1930s. Agricultural subsidies have allowed the rancher and farmer to remain where natural laws of supply and demand would have left them with no basis for support.

Another point brought out by the Poppers was that the short-grass prairie was a delicate ecosystem with little precipitation and weather extremes. Thus the “sodbusters” who thought that breaking the soil for cultivation would bring prosperity only found that the power of nature overwhelmed their dreams. It has only been through federal subsidies and the development of technology that the marginal agricultural capacity on the Commons has continued.

What the Poppers saw in the 1980s and reflected upon in 2006 has been magnified in the past decade. A worldwide economic crisis has increased economic insecurity for millions or maybe billions of people. Economic growth is at a standstill in the U.S. and other industrial countries, while daily survival is problematic for millions in Africa and even in the industrial countries. Similarly, climate change on the Great Plains has begun to impact weather patterns, with extremes in weather increasing stress on plant and animal communities and increasing costs for agriculture, energy development and other human activities.

Farming in the Commons is dependent upon the Ogallala Aquifer. The aquifer water is millions of years old. It was created by water flowing from the Rocky Mountains during the Pleistocene Age. The Ogallala Aquifer covers parts of New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming and South Dakota. The average saturated

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thickness is about 200 feet; it exceeds 1,000 feet in west-central Nebraska and is only one-tenth that in much of western Texas, with a water table ranging from 50-300 feet from the surface, although there are some places where springs are charged from the aquifer. “ The Ogallala Aquifer, whose total water storage is about equal to that of Lake Huron in the Midwest, is the single most important source of water in the High Plains region, providing nearly all the water for residential, industrial and agricultural use. Because of widespread irrigation, farming accounts for 94 percent of the groundwater use.

Irrigated agriculture forms the base of the regional economy. It supports nearly one-fifth of the wheat, corn, cotton and cattle produced in the United States. Crops provide grains and hay for confined feeding of cattle and hogs and for dairies. The cattle feedlots support a large meatpacking industry.

W ithout irrigation from the Ogallala Aquifer, there would be a much smaller regional population and far less economic activity.”

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efficiency, and there have been attempts to force the groundwater into specific areas to increase saturation using air injection. As valiant as these efforts are, they cannot stop the mining of the aquifer and its eventual depletion.

T h e O g a l l a l a Aq u i f e r re p re s e n t s further diminishment of the promise of the Great Plains as imagined by most Americans. The delicate balance of the shor t-grass prair ie, empire and de velopment through subsidy and technology are rapidly coming into contention with the reality of climate change, costs of production and diminishing populations. It is from this reality that a new paradigm for resource management must emerge.

The Buffalo The American buffalo (bison) is accorded the status as the primar y symbol of the Great Plains.

Herds of thousands of bison ranged freely over the Great Plains from Canada to Texas.

Fro m a n e s t i m a t e d 50 million buffalo in t h e m id- 1 8 0 0 s, th e population declined to fewer than a few hundred by the end of the 19th century, mostly because of sport hunting and the federal policy of reducing the herds to gain control over the Plains Indians who relied on the animal for just about all of their needs. The great buffalo migrations, so graphically depicted in the movie “Dances with Wolves,” is a symbol of the Buffalo Commons: the movement of thousands of animals, unimpeded by fences, rights-of-way or fears of infecting domestic cattle.

Lack of economic growth has led many to think that privatization of the Commons is the key to economic growth.

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The Ogallala Aquifer is being mined, meaning that more water is being taken out than what can be recharged through precipitation. This mining process has been taking place ever since the development of internal-combustion-engine-powered irrigation wells. The eventual depletion of the aquifer will mean that the Commons will no longer be a place where industrialscale farming can take place, and most human activity will be threatened.

Today the Ogallala Aquifer produces w a t e r f o r 2 0 p e rc e n t o f t h e U. S. agricultural production. The industrial agricultural use of the Ogallala has reduced the saturated thickness by about 100 feet in Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. The rate of depletion is now about 2.5 feet per year.

There has to be a level of saturation high enough to support water withdrawal.

Apparently, there is only about 15 percent of the aquifer that has the saturation level sufficient for irrigation pumping. Increasingly, the economic basis for agricultural activity has been improvements in technology. Centerp i vo t i r r i g a t i on s y s t e m s , c o u p l e d with drop sprinklers, have increased

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The buffalo is a national symbol, but it is even more. As the largest and most powerful herbivore on the Plains, the buffalo carries a legacy that cannot be compared. Almost every tribe west of the Mississippi River has a buffalo dance in some form or another. And although we know that many tribes have not been able to recover their specific buffalo dance tradition, reverence for the animal remains. We can see the power of that reverence in the Pueblo Buffalo dances today. That reverence translates to the buffalo as a metaphor for the spirit of the land, the power of Nature, the revitalization of traditional cultures.

The Commons As a social and cultural concept, the

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commons encompassº an area of land that is owned by all of the members of the community. The commons are set aside from private ownership to ensure that resources needed for the benefit of the whole community are not withheld from the community. Historically, for most Americans, the best-known commons is the Boston Common. The Boston Common was established, first, as a place to graze animals and later as a central park in which community activities took place including hangings, funerals, protests and celebrations.

For people in New Mexico, which became a part of the United States in 1848 with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, the concept of the commons has a different level of meaning. During the time of Spanish colonization and for a period thereafter, land grants were given to the pueblos, municipalities and families by the Spanish Crown. Each land grant set aside land that was to be used as commons. That was land to be used and shared by the beneficiaries of the land grant for grazing, hunting, gathering of wood, medicinal plants and foods, and to protect the watershed. But we see that with the arrival of the Americans in 1848, the concept of the commons was not appreciated by the newcomers. Very quickly there were attempts to separate the land grant owners from their land.

What the Santa Fe Ring was unable to commandeer in he 1870s, the United States took over through the Transfer Act of 1905. All of the land grant commons were folded into the National Forest system. Suddenly, control and management of the commons went from kivas, council houses and community centers to Washington, D.C. and its regional and local agencies.

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Commons,” public land owned by all Americans. But the management of U.S. public lands often does not reflect the concept of commons; it reflects current political and economic interests with the notion of private property underlying many management decisions. Ranchers holding federal grazing permits regularly prevent ingress by hunters, sport fishermen and hikers. Mining companies hold large swaths of lands for exploration and extraction while prohibiting access by the public for recreation and other land-based practices. Today ’s political climate is one in which there is an attack on the American Commons. The lack of economic growth has led many to think that the privatization of the Commons is the key to economic g row t h . At t e m p t s t o p r i v a t i z e o r eliminate the National Park system, counties claiming jurisdiction over t h e Fo re s t S e r v i c e lands, federal land takeovers and refusal of federal permit holders to pay their fees or f o l l o w re g u l a t i o n s are examples of these attacks. The problem with the individuals, b u s i n e s s e s a n d c o u n t i e s re s i s t i n g federal control of the Commons is that their intentions are based in private property, exclusive use by the owner and sale to the highest bidder, leaving the community without access and without the ability to participate in traditional land-based practices.

Spirit of the Commons is recognition o f t h e i n t e rc on n e c t e d n e s s o f o u r private lives and private needs and the life and needs of the community. The well-being of the individual is based on the well-being of the community as a whole. La vida buena y sana por todos. The Spirit of the Commons also recognizes that all beings of the commons have a right to exist and their existence is necessary for the well-being of the commons. The idea of separation of humans from nature is hard to overcome. But in order to recognize the power of interconnectedness, we need to recognize that it is our choices and technolog y that reinforce our disconnection. It is not our status as human. The Spirit of the Commons is calling out to us to give up our notions of separateness so that we can again share our common legacy with the animals, plants, mountains, plains, rivers and lakes.

Private property can leave a community unable to participate in traditional land-based practices.

The Spirit of the Commons The Spirit of the Commons mitigates against the idea of private use of the commons. The commons is based in the idea that a community needs to have a place that is for the benefit of the community as a whole. Of course, this the antithesis of privatization. The

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The symbol of the Buffalo Commons i s on e o f a re t u r n to a way of seeing the world in which resources are not for the benefit of a select few. Tribal peoples had no concept of private property beyond what people needed in their household and personal effects. The Spanish land grants recognized the need for individuals to have private property: a house, tools, fields, livestock and more. However, the power of unlimited private property accumulation was held in check. The presence of the commons ensured that everyone in the community had access to resources necessary for la vida buena y sana. A person could become rich through management of the property he or she had, not by monopolizing the resources of the community and demanding payment for access. At that time in the history of the Southwest,

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Thus, the concept of the “Buffalo Commons” is more than an economic argument. It has spiritual overtones that reflect the primordial space of the Great Plains, the connection between humans and other beings, animate or inanimate, of the Plains and the awareness that we must, as a people, recognize the need for shared space and the vida buena y sana por todos. ■ B o r n i n R o s w el l, New Mexico, Stephen Wall, J.D., is a member of the White Earth Nation (Chippewa). Wall serves as chair of the Indigenous Liberal Studies Department at the Institute of American Indian Arts. He is also an artist and writer.

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The polemics of pr ivate proper t y versus government property has not ser ved the needs of public resource management. The task before us is to redefine resource management in a way that acknowledges the right of people to have private property while recognizing the community and its needs and rights.

Models for that resource management lie within our collective imagination and creativity. Historical precedents such as tribal land management concepts and Spanish land grants can give insight to the process. Human organization can take many forms. Political and economic organization can also take many forms. The human mind is capable of miraculous accomplishments, if we do not burden it with ideas and beliefs that created the situation in which we currently find ourselves.

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REMEMBERING OUR SACRED PLACE IN NATURE The Mother Earth Restoration Trust ERICA OHLIGER AND NELSON CARABALLO

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fter 15 years of ongoing relationship and work with the Four Peoples of the Earth from La Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia, the Mother Earth Restoration Trust (MERT) was created. In 2015 it was formally established as a non-profit organization in the state of Colorado.

Witnessing the world spiral into deeper and deeper crisis, MERT was inspired by a call from indigenous elders of La Sierra who were listening and responding to the living planet herself and her request for humankind’s collective attention. They say she is speaking out to guide humanity along a pathway that leads to her restoration— which ultimately is our restoration as Peoples of the Earth, dependent upon and in communion with our Earth Mother.

The Heart of the World, La Sierra, is an isolated bioregion considered home to the native South American Tayrona culture, consisting of the Kogui, Wiwa, Arhuaco and Kankuamo.

The Four Peoples are a living example of sustainability after thousands of years of preserving a harmonious relationship with Mother Earth. Though their way of life and culture has become increasingly entangled with the modern world, as a collective people they continue to maintain a rare spiritual connection with the Mother.

This connection—preserved by some of the Four Peoples through pristine ancient lifestyles—enables them to hear and receive her guidance directly. Because the global, social and bio-cultural crisis has escalated beyond critical levels, the Four Peoples have been instructed by the Mother to come out into the world to share their insight and join greater humanity in our common initiative for global transformation.

The Four Peoples’ mission—which they hold as their sacred responsibility in the Web of Life—is to be vigilant of all events taking place in the world and to preserve Universal Balance on Mother Earth.

Presently, the Elders are encouraging the human family to maintain and hold Angüe Duna (Aahn-gwa Doo-na) ~ positive spiritual thought ~ and focus

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The tribal elders requested that a water photo from their territory in La Sierra be included with this article to honor the feminine. To them, this image is a representation of the “Universal Womb,” reminding men and women to consecrate the feminine by consecrating all of life.

on our individual and collective internal order (Ikwashenduna) for the changes we seek. From their perspective, change will only come when we decide to shift our conscious awareness towards an analysis of self. Change through the implementation of laws, policy, movements and activism can be of great value and will be effectual when the internal order (coherence) becomes the foundation of our actions.

Mother Earth emphatically reminds us there is a Natural Order in the universe, in the cycles within Nature and on her earth body. Remembering the sacredness of the Feminine Principle—as all her children, both men and women, are birthed from the feminine—is the key to understanding and restoring our sacred relationship with her. She is therefore showing us a pathway that begins with the feminine principles present in both men and women.

The Four Peoples have preserved a harmonious relationship with Mother Earth for thousands of years.

We are being counseled

by Mother Earth to stop depending solel y on external agents (legal and political frameworks). Our collective commitment to our internal order is fundamental.

We are not victims; the outside world reflects our internal order. This has many components, but begins with a simple view and understanding that we are intricately connected to all things that are transpiring.

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to what the Elders call Natural Order.

In their wisdom, the Elders share that we all have Sacred Sites (meridians included) on/in our bodies, which hold qualities of the feminine (love, compassion, tenderness, kindness, gentleness, understanding, etc.), forgotten by so many in today’s world. Thus, our forsaken relationship with our Mother Earth can only be healed through a collective awareness

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of her existence as a living, feeling and breathing being humanity is a part of.

With great respect we share the following message from the Elders: Women are the representation of the Earth; to violate her is the demise of humanity.

It is time for the balancing, delimitation (placement of limits or boundaries) and reestablishment of the feminine w i t h i n t h e o r d e r o f t h e w o m a n .

It is the time of the climate and seasons in which nature cleanses herself according to the Law of Origin.

It is the time for women (all daughters, sisters, mothers, grandmothers of the Earth) to remember and restore the Feminine Principle, beginning with themselves, to help all the men (sons, brothers, fathers, grandfathers) also remember.

What does this mean?

It is time to place boundaries, both internally and externally—what each woman puts

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forth externally and what she allows to come to her internally—based on the sacredness that she holds.

The Mother Earth and Nature will also establish her/their own boundaries.

The climate is changing due to all that has and continues to violate her.

After presenting spiritual offerings to the Mother for her restoration from both men and women, the Elders were shown in their deliverance that the Mother was not receiving the spiritual offerings from the men (masculine) due to the forgotten feminine principles within the masculine.

This triggered an investigation with the Mother Earth at a specific site of great relevance to the present moment, the Spiritual Office of the Woman, where she gave the following message, conveyed by the Elders: The women are the ones who can restore the balance and overcome the force of negativity that has multiplied in La Sierra and worldwide. For the restoration of Mother Earth, which includes all life on the planet, it is agreed that now is the moment for women to enter a deeper process to remember their original roles and responsibilities. Because women internally possess all the same elements and sacred sites as the Mother, healing themselves is seen as the vital component to the unification process. If this healing does not take place, humanity will continue the path of self-destruction!

This brings greater inspiration to an initiative that MERT is working on involving women in the Heart of the World to heal the Feminine Principle.

The women of La Sierra living within the cultural ancient norms of the Four Peoples of the Earth understand that every female born is considered a Saga (Saah-ga). Sagas (women) and Mamas (men) are enlightened spiritual leaders of their communities. They are chosen either at birth or at an early age, trained and sometimes sequestered for long periods of time, to preserve their purity.

The Young Girls represent the springs, which hold the pure spiritual basis for the continuity of the waters of life. The Mothers represent the rivers and the Elders (grandmothers) represent the oceans.

The women of the Four Peoples are bonding in agreement to strengthen and empower themselves and their original roles within the Four Peoples, while raising greater awareness in our collective need to heal and cleanse the waters (the Universal Womb) for healthy reproduction of all life and the future generations.

In healing the Earth body/Nature, we must begin with the waters.

Mother Earth is calling out to women all over the world to heal and step forward responsibly as an expression of the Mother, while asking men to h o n o r, s u p p o r t a n d c o m p l e m e n t this healing by remember ing the sacred Feminine Principle, which will bring to realization the greatest potential of the masculine.

To the Elders this begins with healing the feminine, as women’s natural ability to gestate life (in the womb) is the greatest expression of Mother Earth.

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They understand that the restoration of the waters correlates directly to the restoration of our wholeness within (internal order).

Erica Ohliger and Nelson Caraballo are cofounders of the Mother Earth Restoration Trust.

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From a traditional Native perspective, we have some understanding of the actual physical and spiritual damage that is being done to the Earth with m a s s i v e m i n e r a l e x t r a c t i o n . We

Going to a new planet sounds so far out there, science fictional and unrealistic, but science and technolog y say it ’s possible. Who will be on the spaceship to the new wor ld? It is not going to be us “regular folks.”

If it happens, it will be the millionaires and billionaires.

America, as much of the civilized world, is hooked on extractive energy development.

This addiction is fatal, as it is killing the planet.

And just like with any addiction, it craves more and more. The physical addiction is further driven by the gluttony to make more money profit.

The Navajo Nation, as Chili Yazzie an energ y state, is also hooked and contributing to the reality of climate change. Our Navajo leadership demonstrates that addiction by frantically looking for ways to keep Navajo Generating Station running and also appearing to be in favor of the dastardly business of fracking.

I understand that the current level of extractive energy development around the globe is already beyond the limits of what was considered “safe,” in terms of realizing the opportunity for extended life of the Earth, and that any new development will only accelerate the end of life of the Earth. The advocacy of opposition to new development is

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tephen Hawking, regarded as one of the greatest modern day scientific thinkers on the realities of Earth and space, says the human race has only 100 years to find a new planet and to relocate. He suggests that life on this planet will come to an end because of climate change, nuclear war and viral genetic diseases. So according to Hawking, there are only four generations left.

willingl y take par t in hur ting the Earth, and then we talk about honoring the Earth Mother and how we should walk in beauty on her. This makes me wonder how those who pray with the corn pollen or sit at the sacred fireplace justify their support for hurting the Earth and for those that do. The other great contradiction is: We say the future belongs to our grandchildren and generations to come. By participating in killing the Earth, we are also killing the future of our children. ■ Duane “Chili” Yazzie, a farmer and champion of indigenous peoples’ rights, is president of the Shiprock Chapter of the Navajo Nation.

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ecognizing a need to develop and grow Native American entrepreneurial businesses, the Native Entrepreneur in Residence (NEIR) program was formalized in 2014 by the nonprofit, Albuquerque-based, New Mexico Community Capital. NEIR is unique as an accelerator or business incubator. It is by, for and about Native Americans. Its sole mission is to bring financial literacy, business skills and a network to Native entrepreneurs and their communities.

• Strengthen entrepreneurial and business skillsets for sustainable profitability • Move from a state of “possibility” to a state of “probability” in tribal economic growth • Grow the reality and awareness of high performance of Native American entrepreneurs throughout the U.S.

The program’s goals: • Reduce “economic leakage” in tribal communities • Retain and grow circulation of money earned via development of local entrepreneurship • Create tribal economic diversification, growth and sustainability

Since 2014, 24 entrepreneurs have graduated the six-week mentorship experience. Eighty-four new jobs have been created, $7.365 million in gross revenues have been generated, and four companies have received further investment as a result of their NEIR work. Program Director Peter Holter says that 61 percent of the

program’s participants to date have been women and that the average age is 31.

In addition to New Mexico, the program also serves people from nations, tribes and pueblos in Arizona, California, Montana and Oklahoma.

NEIR has received long-term grants and funding from the Administration for Native Americans (ANA-SEEDS), the Native American CDFI Assistance Fund, the Small Business Administration (SBA), and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.

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NEIR provides a culturally appropriate, supportive place for participants to gain confidence, grow and become successful.

The program’s management team, board of

directors and advisory board are comprised of Native American business leaders, along with a variety of entrepreneurs, educators and mentors. NEIR graduates continue to be involved as a resource, and in so doing, give back to their communities and pay it forward to the next generation of graduates as part of a peer-to-peer advisory team.

New Mexico Community Capital’s Native Entrepreneur in Residence Team celebrating success at recent graduation party

Current NEIR participant Jaclyn Roessel (Grownup Navajo) with NEIR alumni Kalika Tallou (Salon Tallou), Jake Foreman (Karuna Collectiva) and Warren Montoya (Rezonate Art)

Vanessa Roanhorse (Roanhorse Consulting) receives her NEIR graduation plaque from Peter Holter.

NEIR Graduate Lisa Foreman (Mahadevi’s) and her daughter Neela are congratulated by New Mexico Community Capital Managing Director Peter Holter (l) and Chairman of the Board Kip Ritchie (r).

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Each funded project aims to achieve objectives such as strengthening local food-system control; increasing access to local, healthy and traditional foods; and/or decreasing food insecurity and food deserts, all with an emphasis on serving Native American children and families. Additionally, the projects help increase awareness of and involvement with the origins of the community’s food, and expand knowledge of the linkages between foods, Native cultures, tribal economic growth and the development of entrepreneurial food ventures.

New grantees in the Southwest included: Tewa Women United, Santa Cruz, N.M. $35,000 for The Española Healing Foods Oasis. The project provides opportunities for a distressed area to experience sustainable agriculture while expanding knowledge of linkages between foods, Native cultures and food justice through community education workshops, forums and mentoring on dry-land farming techniques, water catchment and other topics.

F l o w e r i n g Tr e e Pe r m a c u l t u r e Institute, Española, N.M. $21,000. The grant will support expansion of the Pueblo Food Experience/Kwi-tewah project, an effort that has included building traditional adobe ovens, a traditional bread house and a women’s ceremonial house. The project is about returning to a diet of original foods for health purposes, while keeping native seeds and traditional crops alive and supporting spiritual and ceremonial life.

Pueblo of Nambé, NM. $15,000 to help the Community Farm Project in its continued expansion and field renewal.

The grant will help increase production

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of healthy, nutritious food for this isolated food desert while also helping revitalize and retain traditional farming knowledge, language and culture.

Diné be’ iiná, Inc., Window Rock, Ariz. $27,000. The Sheep-to-Table project helps retain and share traditional Navajo foodways.

Navajo families gain an understanding of food sources and how survival skills are embedded in tribal traditions. It involves gathering, documenting and sharing vanishing knowledge of wild edible plants, cooking techniques and traditional shepherding practices.

North Leupp Family Farms, Inc. Leupp, Ariz. $35,000. North Leupp Family Farms is a small cooperative with about 100 acres of land cultivated by 30 family farmers. It aims to develop solutions to deficiencies in the community food system, encourage healthy lifestyles and promote food security. It is developing a business plan for a local food enterprise to aggregate, process, store, market and distribute fresh, locally grown vegetables.

First Nations also recently awarded grants to conduct food sovereignty assessments The results will be used to develop plans to increase local control of food systems to better address community health issues, build the local economies and help preser ve Native cultures.

First Nations recognizes that Native food systems ser ve as a mechanism for entrepreneurship and economic development. Like most assets of Native people, Native food systems have been altered, colonized and, in some cases, destroyed. Reclaiming control over local food systems promotes healthy Native communities, economies and people. ■

Food Sovereignty Assessment grants were awarded to: Pueblo of Jémez, Jémez Pueblo, NM. $14,000 Red Willow Center, Taos Pueblo, NM. $15,000 Santa Clara Pueblo, Española, NM. $13,500

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DANCING BUTTERFLY NATURALS

“Love yourself from the inside out.”

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ancing Butterfl y Naturals is owned and operated by Addelina Lucero. The business specializes in organic high-quality bodycare products (shampoos, soaps, lotions, salves, herbs, oils, tinctures, cough medicines, toothpaste, healing balms, etc.) that reflect Lucero’s Taos Pueblo and Yaqui roots.

Lucero’s philosophy is to be kind to yourself and considerate of what you are taking into your body, and not just foods and medicines. “If we consume unnatural things, that is reflected in our appearance and in the way we feel and think,” she says. “Products that contain parabens or other synthetic preservatives are absorbed directly into our bloodstream.”

Lucero’s most popular products are yucca shampoo and conditioner, which

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have a shelf life of six months. She learned to make them with locally gathered herbs and flowers after a year of trial-and-error experiments. She uses ingredients such as organic goat’s milk, aloe vera gel, organic oils (olive, coconut, virgin shea butter, sunflower, hemp, sweet almond, grapeseed, pure vitamin E and other plant-based essential oils), as well as mineral clay dyes, Indian salt, wild herbs and flowers.

She also makes oils from juniper berry, sage, wild rose, Taos wildflower and cactus flower.

Dancing Butterfly Naturals handmade p ro d u c t s , i n re c yc l a b l e B PA - f re e bottles with paper labels, are available directly from Lucero (505.779.7020, dancingbutterflynaturals@gmail.com or on Facebook) or at Red Willow Farmers’ Market at Taos Pueblo, every Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. ■

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TEN YEARS OF ALTERNATIVE ENERGY, RENEWABLE ENERGY AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY PROJECTS AT THE SOUTHWESTERN INDIAN POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE

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he Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute’s (SIPI) Renewable Energy Program intends to continue to design, install, operate and maintain renewable energy (RE) technology hardware—photovoltaic, wind and solar hot water systems—on and around the campus, to supplement and create hands-on educational resources to train Native American students.

SIPI’s Renewable Energy Program’s goals are: • To enable students’ pursuit of advanced studies in RE engineering and technology, preparing them for technical careers • To provide examples and demonstrate practical uses of RE technology for students, faculty and the community at large These goals have already been advanced through the commercial RE systems that have been installed and used on SIPI’s campus for 10 years and through the integration into the school’s curriculum of an innovative academic program in the burgeoning fields of RE, energy efficiency (EE) and green building. It

is our firm belief that EE implementation and training come first and take precedence over RE technology training and implementation.

There is a lot of interest and excitement on the part of our students in these areas, especially those with the aspiration and commitment to go back to their communities to create jobs and help improve the local economy.

Since the fall of 2007, SIPI’s research and development projects have included community outreach components.

Some of SIPI’s past and ongoing projects in EE and RE: 1. Wind Turbine Design – Vertical and Horizontal Axis – Argonne National Lab – Indian Energy Program – National Championship for SIPI team 2. Biofuel Technology – Alga to Biodiesel Process – Argonne National Lab – Indian Energy Program – National Championship for SIPI 3. Energy Audit for the existing building on the SIPI campus – American

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High Technology Materials (CHTM Center) and AIREI – AIHEC grant 10. Solar Decathlon – A SIPI–UNM collaboration ■ Nader Vadie, Ph.D. is a faculty member and coordinator of SIPI’s Engineering Technology Program.

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Santa Fe Renaissance Fair | September 17 & 18 Clan Tynker and Order of Epona jousters, fairies, jugglers, dancers, kids’ games, craft and food vendors and so much more.

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ACADEMY FOR THE LOVE OF LEARNING

SIPI STUDENTS—NATIONAL LEADERS IN ROBOTICS AND ENGINEERING

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SIPI team (l-r): Emery Sutherland (Navajo): computer aided design/drafting and network management; Ty Shurley (Navajo): pre-engineering and computer aided design/drafting; Christian Martinez (Pueblo of Laguna): network management; Nader Vadiee, SIPI Engineering Professor and Team Faculty Advisor; SIPI-NASA I-C- MARS Program PI Schulte Cooke (Navajo): liberal arts and geospatial information technology

The Swarmathon Challenge is organized each year to promote the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) fields and applied robotics. The space agency plans to use the technology that the schools develop. Small, fourwheeled rovers called “swarmies” will roam the Martian surface, autonomously collecting ice deposits, minerals and elements that can be refined into building materials or fuel. A NASA press release says that the robots could also be used to clean up hazardous waste or rescue people in disaster zones. The insect-like swarmies were designed and built through collaboration between Kennedy Space Center’s Swamp Works laboratory and the University of New Mexico.

SIPI’s students spent months in three teams of four people devising and refining algorithms and code to guide the rovers.

The initiative was headed by faculty lead of the engineering program, Nader Vadie, Ph.D. The students included Schulte Cooke (Navajo), Emery Sutherland (Navajo), Christian Martinez (Laguna),

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Ty Shurley (Navajo), Glen Allen (Navajo), Brian Bahe (Laguna), Mathew Gachupín ( Jémez), Geoff Gustina (Navajo), Simonie Salazar (Isleta), Joshua Sparvier (Assiniboine), Collin Whitehair (Navajo) and Andrew Wright (Navajo).

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At a celebration ceremony honoring the SIPI team, UNM’s Distinguished and Regents Professor Ted Jojola (Isleta Pueblo) drew comparisons between the students’ success and the achievements of indigenous peoples from past millennia.

“Our ancestors were great innovators,” he said. “ They built pyramids and massive irrigation systems that sustained populations of 150,000 people. We need to bring back that sense of innovation.” ■

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n April, a robotics team from the Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute (SIPI), an Albuquerque, New Mexico-based tribal college, took grand prize ($5,000) in NASA’s 2017 Swarmathon Challenge held at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. SIPI’s students competed against 19 other higher education institutions, scoring nearly twice as many points as the runner-up. In 2016, SIPI’s team took third place.

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In a disaster scenario, where would you turn for clean drinking water?

In the last decade, natural disasters occurring in human populated areas have increased in both frequency and intensity. These events often incapacitate vital infrastructure, including essential potable water delivery systems and utility services. Disasters also debilitate access to critical medical care and equipment. There is an urgent need to deploy immediate, temporary relief of ȱ ȱ ȱ ȱ ȱ ȱ ȱ ě ȱ ¢ȱ ȱ disasters.

To solve this, a New Mexico startup has designed a self-sustaining portable shipping container that will house an atmospheric water-capturing device to provide emergency potable water in disaster situations.

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IMAGES FROM SANTA FE INDIAN MARKET IN 2015 AND 2016 The 2017 market—the largest and most prestigious juried Native arts show in the world —takes place on August 19–20. www.swaia.org PHOTOS © SETH ROFFMAN

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Native NEWSBITEs SERVICES FOR NATIONS, TRIBES AND PUEBLOS THREATENED BY FEDERAL BUDGET Last month New Mexico’s legislative Interim Indian Affairs Committee held meetings in Gallup to listen to presentations and testimony from tribal leaders and community members about the myriad of challenges facing the 22 pueblos and tribes in the state. Cuts in services from the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) proposed in President Trump’s 2018 budget would dramatically impact an already underfunded and strained system, potentially forcing parents, seniors and the most vulnerable to seek services from state government to help fill the gaps. “State resources are already stretched past their limit,” stated Rep. D. Wonda Johnson (D-Crownpoint).

Under the president’s budget, funding for programs that help families secure housing loans will be eliminated entirely. Funding for the BIA will be slashed by $181 million. The Bureau of Indian Education, which operates 44 schools throughout New Mexico, would suffer a reduction of $64 million. The draft proposal calls for $300.5 million in cuts to Indian Health Services. According to vice chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, U.S. Sen. Tom Udall (D-NM), “Passing the president’s budget would mean less money for inpatient services, preventive health programs, drug addiction treatment, mental health programs and specialty care.

It would mean fewer resources to recruit and retain a qualified workforce and to address already underfunded facility infrastructure needs.”

A PUSH TO PRIVATIZE NATIVE AMERICAN LANDS The Trump administration’s 27-member Native American Affairs Coalition has been drafting proposals on Indian policy issues ranging from energy to healthcare to education. The coalition, which includes Sharon Clahchischilliage (R-NM, 4th District), a Navajo tribe member, as one of its four co-chairs, wants to privatize all tribal lands to free them from federal regulations they see as impeding self-reliance.

Indians, they say, will then be able to pursue development projects that will lift them out of poverty.

Interior Secretar y Ryan Zinke recently suggested that tribes should consider incorporating, a move that In 1911, the U.S. Department of the Interior promoted “Indian Land For Sale.” Congress would help privatize tribal lands repudiated the allotment era policy in 1934 and reduce land held “in trust ” through the Indian Reorganization Act. by the federal government. U.S. Native American reservations are federally owned lands held in trust for tribes. The reservations may contain about a fifth of the nation’s oil and gas, along with shale and coal reserves. The administration’s energy policy aims to allow industry to drill on many of those lands.

“Our spiritual leaders are opposed to the privatization of our lands, which means the commoditization of the nature, water, air we hold sacred,” said Tom Goldtooth (Navajo-Dakota), director of the Indigenous Environmental Network. “Privatization has been the goal since colonization—to strip Native Nations of their sovereignty.”

SANTA CLARA AWARDED NEARLY $3 MILLION FOR LOS ALAMOS PUEBLOS PROJECT The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded a cooperative agreement to the Pueblo of Santa Clara, near Española, N.M., to conduct a broad assessment of environmental, ecological and human health conditions on the Santa Clara Reservation. The study is to identify issues of concern and then determine the extent that those issues impact and compromise the Pueblo community’s traditional uses of its natural resources. The $2.8-million award will run for a period of five years.

Members of Santa Clara Pueblo and other tribal communities have raised concerns for decades about the effects of living downwind and downstream of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and the contamination from decades of nuclear weapons work. Santa Clara Pueblo Gov. J. Michael Chavarría expressed concerns that the new cleanup agreement among the lab, the state and the DOE released in June wasn’t stringent enough to protect the lab’s neighboring communities.

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chromium plume, discovered in 2005, that is threatening drinking wells, a major aquifer and San Ildefonso Pueblo’s land, which borders the federal property. LANL has said that addressing the plume is one if its “highest environmental priorities” and has installed a pilot pumping well.

GRAND CANYON URANIUM MINES Four old uranium mines near the Grand Canyon were able to reopen since former U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s 2012 moratorium. One of them, the Canyon Mine, has been forced to suspend operations pending the outcome of a federal district court ruling. The Havasupai Tribe, Grand Canyon Trust and others sued the U.S. Forest Service for letting Energy Fuels Resources re-open the mine without consulting the tribe or conducting environmental reviews beyond one from 1986.

If the lawsuit fails, the mine would produce up to 109,500 tons of high-grade ore per year. As much as 13,100 tons would be stored on-site; 25 flatbed trucks each day would take the rest 300miles through towns and cities such as Flagstaff, Ariz. and over the San Juan and Little Colorado rivers, across the Navajo reservation and Ute Mountain community to a mill near Blanding, Utah.

Members of the Red Water Pond Road Community Association attended Uranium Workers Day at the NM Legislature on Feb. 21. They live between two massive uranium tailings piles that impact their community.

The quilt commemorates the Church Rock tailings spill.

The Canyon mine is not far from Red Butte or “Wii’ gdwiisa” (clench fist mountain), Traditional Cultural Property that the Havasupai say, if destroyed, would destroy them and their world. Red Butte is also culturally significant to the Diné and Hopi, as well as to the Hualapai, Kaibab Paiute and Zuni. The mine is directly above a groundwater aquifer that feeds into seeps, springs and the Havasupai’s main source of water. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality does not require monitoring of deep aquifers, remediation plans or bonding to prevent aquifer contamination.

Meanwhile, after a wet winter, water has been filling the mineshaft. Energy Fuels has reportedly been spraying the water into the air, onto the adjacent Kaibab National Forest, and trucking it from the site.

GRAND CANYON ESCALADE PROJECT ON HOLD The confluence of the Colorado and Little Colorado rivers has been proposed as a site for a major tourist development. A 1.6-mile tram would take visitors from the rim, down 3,200-feet into the Grand Canyon in about 10 minutes to commercial and retail spaces, a multimedia complex, a river walk and administrative buildings.

The development has faced ardent opposition from numerous Navajo chapters, neighboring tribes such the Hopi and Zuni, environmental advocacy groups and the public. They say it would turn part of the Grand Canyon into an amusement park.

Some Navajo lawmakers are in favor of the project. However, last month, following a 14-2 vote in opposition by one of the four committees that must approve the project, the Navajo Nation Council again put off debate on the project until their fall session.

For the Hopi Tribe, according to its chairman, Herman G. Honanie, at stake are decades of extensive negotiations regarding the Intergovernmental Compact between the two tribes. The compact commits each tribe to protect religious sites and landscapes they are located in. The Hopi consider the confluence as an area to which they have aboriginal title and use.

NATIVE AMERICAN BUSINESS OWNERSHIP IN NEW MEXICO Ranking after Alaska and Oklahoma, New Mexico, at 5.8 percent, had the third-largest share of businesses Native American/Alaska Native owned in the country as of 2012. Those businesses generated $591 million in sales, receipts and shipments that year. Yet, only 4.6 percent of those businesses had paid employees, totaling 3,890 people, according to the Minority-Owned Business in New Mexico report by the New Mexico Department of Workforce Solutions.

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NATIVE NEWSBITEs PREDATORY LENDING AROUND THE NAVAJO NATION Most of those businesses were in the wholesale trade industry, followed by manufacturing. The majority are labor-intensive industries and arts and services.

New Mexico is home to more than 219,000 Native American citizens, more than 10 percent of the population.

ACOMA PUEBLO’S 25-YEAR AGREEMENT WITH BRIGHT GREEN Acoma Pueblo has a 2,000-year history of farming; but nothing like what is being developed on the tribe’s land in western New Mexico. A $160-million state-of the-art greenhouse for researching and growing medicinal plants, including marijuana, is being built. Bright Green Group of Companies, under a landmark 25-year business agreement with the pueblo, is creating the nation’s largest commercial growing operation and research center that will eventually cover 6 million square-feet, or about 100 football fields. Once construction is completed, operating the facility will create high-tech jobs for the region and opportunities for universities to collaborate with the research center, according to Bright Green’s website.

The Delaware-based company’s business plan details the production of herbal supplements, oils and popular homeopathic remedies. Pennywort and Indian ginseng will be among the millions of organic medicinal plants grown, although marijuana is expected to constitute a significant portion of the operation. New Mexico is one of more than two-dozen states with medical marijuana programs, but because of federal laws, marijuana currently cannot be shipped out of state. Acoma leaders and the company think that, with science backing up the medicinal benefits of marijuana for pain and other conditions, eventually the laws will change.

As their operation will be on tribal land, Bright Green doesn’t intend to seek a state license, believing that the enterprise will be subject only to tribal and federal laws.

The company plans to work with the FDA to approve its “novel prescription drugs.”

Bright Green holds a number of provisional patents.

NAVAJOS GREENLIGHT HEMP CULTIVATION In 2016, the Navajo Nation signed a resolution to grow industrial hemp. The tribe, whose lands are larger than 10 states in the U.S., has taken steps to establish agricultural commerce on a 70,000-acre farm in New Mexico. “We are striving for the first, if not the largest, hemp crop in the country,” CannaNative CEO Anthony Rivera told Forbes magazine. CannaNative’s website says the company’s goal is to help tribes develop hemp and cannabis-based economies on Native lands throughout the U.S. The global hemp market is said to already be an $800 million market.

Rivera said that his company is working closely with the commerce and agricultural divisions of the Navajo tribe. The company also expects to negotiate with the federal government and the State of New Mexico, which currently doesn’t allow hemp cultivation, in contrast to at least 27 states that have enacted laws since 2014.

Hemp uses less water than some farmland crops such as corn, and since commodity prices have been lowered, hemp can provide a higher payback. Hemp oil and construction materials are among hemp’s many uses.

RAYTHEON’S NEW DINÉ WAREHOUSE In April, Raytheon Co. opened a new $5-million, 30,000-square-foot warehouse near the Navajo Agricultural Products Industrial Park south of Farmington. The warehouse will increase storage for the company’s 95,000-square-foot manufacturing facility, which makes electromechanical assemblies and other products for missiles. Raytheon promotes itself as the world’s largest missile manufacturer.

A $200,000 Local Development Act grant from the New Mexico Economic Development Department went toward the cost of architectural design. The warehouse was financed by the Navajo Nation and leased to Raytheon.

Forty-eight percent of the Navajo population is unemployed, and the average household income is $8,240, well below the poverty line. About 350 people comprise Raytheon’s Diné workforce, including 70 new jobs that were recently added, encompassing assembly line operators, engineers, supervisors and managers.

Ninety-three percent of the staff is Navajo.

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A loan company with offices in Navajo country is the subject of a federal class-action lawsuit, accused of making predatory tax-refund-anticipation loans. According to the complaint, T&R Market, Inc., Tancorde Finance, Inc. and T&R Tax Service, Inc., which make thousands of loans each year in Gallup, Farmington, Shiprock and Chinle, imposed “hidden charges, deceptively understated [the interest rate], and engaged in other unlawful and deceptive conduct.” The company is also accused of violating the Truth in Lending Act. A young Gallup couple who are plaintiffs in the suit were charged 385 percent annual interest on a $1,250 loan they obtained in 2014 to pay for food and travel for Thanksgiving.

A bill was passed in the New Mexico Legislature in 2017 eliminating “payday loans,” but tax-refund-anticipation loans were exempted by an amendment.

INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN INDIAN ARTS NEWS IAIA Partners with San Juan College The IAIA established a partnership with a Farmington community college to bring students into the institute’s film program. Students who complete San Juan College’s Associate of Applied Science degree in Digital Media Arts will be accepted into IAIA’s Cinema Arts and Technology BFA program. Those with a 2.0 GPA or higher will be able to transfer all their credits into the four-year program. IAIA will offer a 300-level film class on SJC’s campus starting in fall 2017.

IAIA Joins Achieving the Dream IAIA has joined Achieving the Dream (ATD), a network of more than 220 colleges in 39 states. ATD helps students achieve goals for academic success, personal growth and economic opportunity. ATD’s coaches and advisors will work with IAIA to help build institutional capacity in seven areas. IAIA’s ATD initiative will start by focusing on improving students’ experience in their first year and ensuring that everyone at the institution is committed to student success. ATD’s initiatives include addressing the challenge of engaging adjunct faculty more deeply as key members of colleges’ workforces.

IAIA Receives Donation of Suzan Harjo Archives American Indian activist, lobbyist, scholar and policy-maker Suzan Shown Harjo (Cheyenne/Hodulgee Muscogee) recently donated her archive and art collection to IAIA. Harjo’s papers document her work from 1965 to the present, including the development and passage of important pieces of national legislation such as the American Indian Religious Freedom Act (1978), the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (1990), and the Indian Arts & Crafts Act Amendment (1990). The archive also follows Harjo’s role as executive director of the National Congress of the American Indian (1984-1989) and the Morning Star Institute (1984-present).

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WHAT'S GOING ON! Events / Announcements ALBUQUERQUE Aug. 3, 8:30 am–7 pm DIPLOMACY BEGINS HERE SUMMIT ABQ Convention Center and Hyatt Regency Downtown Summit will focus on the creative economy, social entrepreneurship and indigenous entrepreneurship and explore the impact of innovation, culture and international relations on economic development. Cohosted by Global Ties ABQ and the Santa Fe Council for International Relations in association with the State Department. 505.888.1687, www. globaltiesabq.org Aug. 5, 9 am–4 pm NATIVE AMERICAN MOVIE ACTORS WORKSHOP Indian Pueblo Cultural Center 2401 12th NW Learn how to prepare and compete for being a background actor or extra.

Open to Native Americans of all ages. $50/$35 for children under 12. Advance registration required. 505.820.0552, Silverbulletproductions.com Aug. 6, 5–10:30 pm DOWNTOWN SUMMERFEST Civic Plaza between Tijeras and Marquette Music from a local band and national headliner. Market, kids’ activities, food trucks. Free. Cabq.gov Aug. 7, 21, 5 pm 350 NEW MEXICO ABQ Center for Peace & Justice 202 Harvard SE Help build a grassroots climate movement to address the impacts of climate change on New Mexicans. http://350newmexico.org

SEASONS OF GROWTH GARDENING CLASS IPCC, 2401 12th NW Cultural Education Team will examine the origin of corn and how it has changed throughout history. Also, a look at contemporary seeds—from heirloom to Monsanto. $5 suggested donation. 11 am: One hour of volunteer work. 505.843.7270, Reservations: learn@indianpueblo.org Aug. 13 Application Deadline CREATIVE BUSINESS CUP USA FINALS “The United Nations of entrepreneurship and creativity” is the world’s largest gathering of creative entrepreneurs. The USA finals will take place in ABQ Sept.

14–15, hosted by Creative Startups. julia@creativestartups.org, www. creativestartups.org/cbc-usa Through Aug. 13 BIRDS OF A FEATHER WOVEN TOGETHER Open Space Visitor Center 6500 Coors Blvd. NE Tapestry artists of Las Areñas. Also Scribes 8 exhibits: Trees: 505.897.8831, www. cabq.gov/openspace Aug. 15, 5 pm SANTOLINA HEARING Vincent Griego Chambers, 1 Civic Plaza Public comment will be taken on the proposed development. The Bernalillo County Commission will vote on whether to approve Level B. The Contra Santolina Working Group will present Future Fair on Civic Plaza prior to the hearing. www. cesoss.org/comunidad-presente

Aug. 8, 2–4 pm, 6–8 pm PUEBLO BOOK CLUB IPCC Pueblo House, 2401 12th NW Po’Pay: Leader of the First American Revolution.

A discussion of Joe Sando’s book. Free.

Aug. 19, 9 am ACEQUIA TALK & WALK Pajarito Acequia, St. Edwins Parking Lot Learn about acequia history and traditions in the Valle de Atrisco. Presented by the Center for Social Sustainable Systems with the South Valley Regional Association of Acequias. www.cesoss.org

Aug. 12, 9 am–2:30 pm NURTURE NATURE PROGRAM Bachechi Open Space at the Bosque and Arboretum Rev. LoraKim Joyner, wildlife veterinarian and co-director of One Earth Conservation will guide the day. $20 includes lunch All welcome regardless of finances.

Sponsored by First Unitarian Earth Web. sharonoldhall@aol.com, www.meetup.com/ Nurture-Nature-Community-Albuquerque/

Aug. 19, 10 am–7 pm BOSQUE CHILE FESTIVAL National Hispanic Cultural Center 1701 4th St. SW Celebration of food, art and culture on the Río Grande. Entertainment, kids’ activities, demonstrations. Presented by Bernalillo County and the NHCC. $5/Ages 5 and younger free. www.nhccnm.org/event/ bernalillo-county-nhcc-present-bosquechile-festival/

Aug. 12, 10 am–12 pm ABQ CITIZENS’ CLIMATE LOBBY Edna Fergusson Library 3700 San Mateo NE Monthly meeting of group working for climate change solutions that bridge the partisan divide. lisas.ccl@gmail.com, https://citizensclimatelobby.org/chapters/ NM_Albuquerque/

Aug. 25, 6 pm NM APPLESEED’S PARADE OF PLAYHOUSES GALA AUCTION ABQ BioPark Botanic Garden 2601 Central NW Fundraiser to support work addressing poverty in NM. Professionals and builders create imaginative playhouses that will be on display for several weeks. A custom designed playhouse created by Meow Wolf will be raffled off for $10 tickets. Admission: $100.

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505.814.1200, paradeofplayhouses.com Through Aug. 27 HOLLYWOOD SW: NM IN FILM AND TELEVISION Albuquerque Museum Explores three critical elements of NM’s film history: the state as a location, as a topic either historical or contemporary, and the people as subjects. 505.243.7255, AlbuquerqueMuseum.org Sept. 1 Submission Deadline 4TH ANNUAL PUEBLO FILM FEST IPCC, 2401 12th NW The only film fest in the country (Nov. 17–19) devoted to the work of Pueblo filmmakers. Screenings, presentations and discussions. 505.8437270, http://www.indianpueblo.org/ centerevent/4th-annual-pueblo-film-fest/

Through Nov. 11 LONG ENVIRONMENTALISM IN THE NEAR NORTH UNM Art Museum, 1 University of New Mexico A collection of photos and writings by UNM professor Subhankar Banerjee. Closed Sundays and Mondays. Unmartmuseum.org First Sundays NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 1801 Mountain Road Museum admission is free to NM residents on the first Sunday of every month.

505.841.2800 Fri, Sat, 7–9 pm and Sundays 1–3 pm SUMMERTIME IN OLDTOWN CONCERTS ABQ Old Town, 303 Romero St. NW

Sept. 7– 17 NM STATE FAIR Louisiana and Lomas http://statefair.exponm.com/ Sept. 9, 1–6 pm TEDXABQ Kiva Auditorium, ABQ Convention Center TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion on innovative ideas. $50/$25 students. www.tedxabq.com Sept. 9, 6–9 pm IPCC 8TH ANNUAL GALA IPCC, 2401 12th NW Indian Pueblo Cultural Center’s Season’s of Growth Gala. Art, food, dance and history. Live and silent auctions. Fundraiser supports IPCC’s library and archives. www. indianpueblo.org/gala/ September 22–23 GLOBALQUERQUE NHCC, 1701 4th St. SW Annual celebration of world music & culture. 20 performances by 17 acts from 5 continents on 3 stages. Tickets: 505.724.4771, www.globalquerque.org/ tickets.html Through September WE ARE OF THIS PLACE Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, 2401 12th St. NW The Pueblo Story. A historical overview and contemporary artworks. Through July 2018: Long Ago: Pueblo People & Our Modern Environment, exploring cuttingedge sustainability issues. Multimedia exhibit links elders’ wisdom to modern relationship with the Earth. Native dances Fri. 2 pm; Sat. & Sun. 11 am & 2 pm. $8.40/$6.40/$5.40; 505.843.7270, indianpueblo.org Through Nov. 5 OUTSTANDING IN HIS FIELD: SAN YSIDRO NHCC Art Museum, 1701 4th St. SW Contemporary and traditional depictions

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of the patron saint of farmers & gardeners.

More than 65 artists. $6/$5/16 & under free. Nationalhispaniccenter.org

Saturdays, 1 pm WEEKLY DOCENT-LED TOURS National Hispanic Cultural Center 1701 4th St. SW Tours of different exhibits and themes in the Art Museum. $2-$3, free with museum admission. 505.246.2261, nhccnm.org PAID AMERICORPS TERMS Young women and men ages 18–25 sought for seasonal, full-time conservation projects in Albuquerque area wilderness starting in September. 575.751.1420, www. youthcorps.org ABQ 2030 DISTRICT A voluntary collaboration of commercial property tenants, building managers, property owners and developers; real estate, energy, and building sector professionals, lenders, utility companies; and public stakeholders such as government agencies, nonprofits, community groups and grassroots organizers. Property partners share anonymous utility data and best practices. Professional partners provide expertise and services. Public partners support the initiative as it overlaps with their own missions. Info: albuquerque@2030districts.org

SANTA FE Aug. 2–4, 9 am–4 pm YOUTH FILMMAKING AND DIGITAL STORYTELLING INTENSIVE SF Community College Presented by Littleglobe co-founder Chris Jonas and project director Katy Gross. Students ages 13–17 will explore basic skills in camera operations using professional equipment and their own smart phone. $225. SFCC course # KS418 01/CRN 10504 Aug. 2, 5–6:45 pm FARMS, FILMS, FOOD CCA, 1050 Old Pecos Tr. CONTINUED ON PAGE 46

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Food trucks, cooking demos by local chefs and farmers, gallery tour. Featured speaker: Don Bustos of Santa Cruz Farms.

Free. 505.982.1338 Aug. 4–6 QIGONG AND CONSCIOUS AGING CONFERENCE Wisdom Healing Qigong Center Galisteo, NM Presenters include Dr. Judith Orloff, Father Richard Rohr, Joan Borysenko, Andrew Harvey, Dr. Gregory Shushan, Master Mingtong Gu, George and Sedena Cappannelli, Nathan Crane and others. Saturday evening concert with Robert Mirabal. 1.800.959.2892, admin@ ChiCenter.com, www.qca.life Aug. 5, 5 pm BUCKAROO BALL La Mesita Ranch, Pueblo of Pojoaque Benefits at-risk children. Dinner, dancing, live music, auction. Info: 505.603.0833, Tickets: $125. 505.988.1234, www. ticketssantafe.org Aug. 7, 9 am PNM RATE HIKE PUBLIC COMMENT HEARING PERA Building, 1120 Paseo de Peralta Aug. 7, 6 pm MAKING OF THE TEWA WORLD Hotel Santa Fe Summer and Winter People. SW Seminars lecture by author Dr. Sam Duwe. $15.

505.466.2775, www.southwestseminars.org Aug. 11, 6–8 pm FARMERS’ MARKET COMMUNITY PICNIC SF Farmers’ Market Pavilion Locally-sourced foods prepared by vendors and chefs. A benefit for the SF Farmers’ Market Institute. 505.983.7726, ext. 0. $20/12 under free. Tickets: farmersmarketinstitute.org Aug. 11–13, 18–20, 11 am–6 pm HACIENDAS: A PARADE OF HOMES Experience “Santa Fe Style” in cuttingedge, inspiring design and creative use of materials in green building, architecture and construction. Presented by the SF Area Home Builders Association. Tickets: $15. tinyurl.com/SFPOH Aug. 12, 10:30 am SF CITIZEN’S CLIMATE LOBBY Location TBA Monthly meeting. Working for climate change solutions to bridge the partisan divide. santafe@citizensclimatelobby.org Aug. 12, 1:30–3 pm SPIRIT OF PLACE Main Library Community Rm. 145 Washington Ave. Earth Walks director Doug Conwell presents an exploration of earth mystery traditions, ancient traditions, wisdom and geomancy around the world and in the American Southwest. Dialogue, videos, music. Free. http://earthwalks.org/ Aug. 13, 2 pm SF CONCERT BAND Federal Park Marches, show tunes, classical favorites.

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Aug. 15, 6–9 pm AT THE ARTIST’S TABLE SF School of Cooking 125 N. Guadalupe A Taste of Chaco with executive chef Kai Autenrieth and artist Lorraine Gala Lewis.

A benefit for Partners in Education and the SF Arts Commission. Includes dinner and limited signed edition print. $250. https:// www.eventbrite.com Aug. 15–18 ANTIQUE AMERICAN INDIAN ART SHOW SANTA FE El Museo Cultural 555 Cam. de las Familia 8/15, 6 pm: Opening night gala ($50), 8/16–18, 11 am–5 pm: show ($15) antiqueindianarts.com

Aug. 17–19 WE ARE THE SEEDS Santa Fe Railyard Contemporary/traditional indigenous art market/festival including literary and culinary arts, performances and fashion designs. 8/17–18, 9 am–5 pm, 8/19, 9 am–4 pm: art show and sale.

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Aug. 25, 9:30 am OUR CHILDREN’S TRUST NM State Capitol, Rm. 307, 490 Old SF Trail Youth petitioners will present testimony before the Environmental Improvement Board asking them to consider a rule to limit greenhouse gas emissions. www. ourchildrenstrust.org/new-mexico/

Through Feb. 11, 2018 VOICES OF COUNTERCULTURE IN THE SOUTHWEST NM History Museum, SF Plaza Exhibit spans the 1960s and 70s exploring the influx of young people to NM and the collision of cultures. Archival footage, oral histories, photography, ephemera and artifacts. Curated by Jack Loeffler and Meredith Davidson. http://nmhistorymuseum. org/calendar.php?

Aug. 25–27 SF TRADITIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL Camp Stoney, 7855 Old SF Trail Bluegrass, old-time and Americana bands, workshops, jam sessions, food, camping.

Round Mountain, Fast Peso String Band, Jean Luc Leroux, Bayou Seco, Lone Piñon, Squash Blossom Boys. $15–$50. 505.983.7019, sftradmusic.com, brownpapertickets.com/ event/2993885 Sept. 1–4 UNIFY FEST Chi Center, Galisteo, NM Co-create community and through art, ceremony, health, sustainability, music and unification of a global tribe. $70–$399, 12 & under free. https://www.eventbrite.com

Aug. 17–18 42ND ANNUAL BENEFIT AUCTION Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian Aug. 1–11 online; 8/17: silent and live auction preview, 8/18: artist demonstrations info@wheelwright.org/auction, www. wheelwright.org Aug. 19, 9 am–6 pm; Aug. 20, 9 am–4 pm ZUNI SHOW Scottish Rite Temple, 463 Paseo de Peralta Aug. 18–19, 9 am–5 pm INDIGENOUS FINE ARTS MARKET Inn and Spa of Loretto, 211 Old SF Tr. Aug. 19–20 SANTA FE INDIAN MARKET The Plaza and surrounding streets Contemporary and traditional American Indian arts. The largest and most prestigious juried Native arts show in the world. 8/15–20: Native Cinema Showcase. 8/18: ticketed Best of Show Ceremony and luncheon, Sneak Preview and General Preview. Market: 8/19, 7 am–5 pm, 8/20: 8 am–5 pm. 505.983.5220, SWAIA.org Aug. 20, 6 pm SQUASH BLOSSOM SUPPER Santa Fe Opera Chef Guido Lambelet will prepare a locallysourced multi-course meal. SFO Apprentice Showcase afterward. $75. http://www. squashblossomlocalfood.com

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cultivate collaboration among individuals, groups and movements. Presenters: Helena Norberg-Hodge, Winona LaDuke, Arvol Looking Horse, Larry Dossey, Judy Wicks, Craig Childs, many others. $150/adv. Some discounts available. www.localfutures.org/

Through August 25 SANTA FE BANDSTAND Santa Fe Plaza Live performances. Free.Santafebandstand.org/

Aug. 15–20 NATIVE CINEMA SHOWCASE Presented by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian and SWAIA SF Indian Market. Free. www.nmai. si.edu or www.swaia.org

Aug. 24, 5:30 pm NAVAJO CODE TALKERS Museum of Indian Arts and Culture Presentation by Laura Tohe: Nihizaad bee

Nidasiibaa “With Our Language We Fought a War.” $75. Benefits workshops in writing and filmmaking so students can continue the practice of storytelling and preserving cultural heritage through film. http:// silverbulletproductions.com

Sept. 7, 5:30 pm SOL NOT COAL AWARD Fundraiser for New Energy Economy’s work for 100% renewables. $100. 505.989.7262, www.newenergyeconomy.org/ Sept. 9, 5:30–10 pm FALL FIESTA SF Farmers’ Market Pavilion Celebrating local food, culture & community.

5:30–8 pm: Plated dinner: $150. 8–10 pm: Community Celebration: $35. 505.983.7726, ext. 5, alexis!santafefarmersmarketinstitute. org, www.farmersmarketeinstitute.org Sept. 16, 12–4 pm AMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY DAY Ragle Park This event, organized by the SF Indian Center, brings the SF community together to celebrate Native culture with music, dances and fun activities including art projects, food and nonprofit tables. 505.660.4210, sfindiancenter@gmail.com Oct. 6, 6:30 pm GUARDIANS GALA SF Farmers’ Market Pavilion WildEarth Guardians benefit dinner.

505.988.9126, ext. 0 Oct. 6–8 SF YOGA FESTIVAL Tickets: $299/$199 or for individual speakers and events. www.santafeyogafestival.org Oct. 12–14 ECONOMICS OF HAPPINESS CONFERENCE James A. Little Theater Reconnecting to Our Local Future – Celebrating Diversity and Community. Conference will

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Sundays, 10 am-4 pm RAILYARD ARTISAN MARKET Farmers’ Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo de Peralta Local artists, textiles, jewelry, ceramics, live music. 505.983.4098, Francesca@santafefarmersmarket.com, artmarketsantafe.com Sundays, 11 am JOURNEY SANTA FE CONVERSATIONS Collected Works Books, 202 Galisteo St. 8/6: Sen. Bill O’Neil on Poetry and New Mexico Politics with Red Mountain Press Editor Susan Gardner 8/13: Renee Athay on Taking Political Action with Indivisible Santa Fe; 8/20: Author Paul Connors on Fire Season – Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout with Lois Mano of the NM Wilderness Alliance. 8/27: Sen. Jerry Ortiz y Pino on the state of NM’s political, social and budgetary situations. Hosts: Alan Webber, Bill Dupuy and James Burbank.

Free. www.journeysantafe.com Mon.–Sat. POEH CULTURAL CENTER & MUSEUM 78 Cities of Gold Rd. Pueblo of Pojoaque In T’owa Vi Sae’we: The People’s Pottery.

Tewa Pottery from the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. Nah Poeh Meng: 1,600-sq.-ft. core installation highlighting the works of Pueblo artists and Pueblo history. Poehcenter.org Tues.–Sat. EL MUSEO CULTURAL DE SANTA FE 555 Cam. de la Familia Rotating exhibits, community programs and performances designed to preserve Hispanic culture. Elmuseocultural.org Tues., Sat., 7 am-1 pm; Weds., 3–7 pm SF FARMERS’ MARKET 1607 Paseo de Peralta (& Guadalupe) Tues., 3–6 pm: Plaza Contenta 6009 Jaguar Dr. Northern NM farmers & ranchers offer fresh greenhouse tomatoes, greens, root veggies, cheese, teas, herbs, spices, honey, baked goods, body care products and much more. santafefarmersmarket.com Tuesdays, 12 pm OFFICE OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL STUDIES BROWN BAG TALKS Center for NM Archaeology 7 Old Cochiti Rd. 8/8: Suspension of Belief – Why I Don’t Believe Mesa Verde Became Tewa by Eric

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Blinman, Dir., Office of Archaeological Studies; 8/22: Variation in Earth’s Magnetic Field Strength and Direction as Seen in the American SW by Shelby Jones-Cervantes.

9/5: Early Pueblo Occupation of the Dinetah Region by Eric Blinman. 9/19: Cooking Jar Technology in the Ancient Southwest by Eric Blinman. 505.476.4404, friendsofarchaeology@gmail.org, nmarchaeology.org Weds.–Sun. SANTA FE CHILDREN’S MUSEUM 1050 Old Pecos Tr. Interactive exhibits and activities.

505.989.8359, Santafechildrensmuseum.org Weds., 6–8 pm ST. JOHN’S MUSIC ON THE HILL St. John’s College Athletic Field Free family-friendly concert series. Picnic and enjoy live music.

Sat., 8 am–4 pm RANDALL DAVEY AUDUBON CENTER 1800 Upper Canyon Rd. Striking landscapes and wildlife. Bird walks, hikes, tours of the Randall Davey home. 505.983.4609, http://nm.audubon. org/landingcenter-chapters/visitingrandall-davey-audubon-center-sanctuary Daily SANTA FE BOTANICAL GARDEN 715 Cam. Lejo, Museum Hill Living museum on 14 acres. Ojos y Manos, Orchard Gardens, The Courtyard Gardens and the Arroyo Trails.

Santafebotanicalgarden.org SUSTAINABLE GROWTH MANAGEMENT PLAN FOR SF COUNTY Hard copies $70, CDs $2. Contact Melissa Holmes, 505.995.2717 or msholmes@ santafecounty.org. The SGMP is also available on the county website: www. santafecounty.org/growth_management/ sgmp and can be reviewed at SF Public libraries and the County Administrative Building, 102 Grant Ave.

TAOS Aug. 5, 2 pm TAOS PLAZA: HISTORY, MYTH AND MEMORY Kit Carson Electric Co-op Boardroom, 118 Cruz Alta Rd. Illustrated lecture by author/professor Dr. Sylvia Rodríguez. Presented by the Taos County Historical Society. 575.779.8579, pcfl1947@yahoo.com, www. taoscountyhistoricalsociety.org Sept. 9, 2 pm RTE. 66 IN NM Kit Carson Electric Co-op Boardroom, 118 Cruz Alta Rd. Illustrated lecture by historian Baldwin Burr. Presented by the Taos County Historical Society. 575.779.8579, pcfl1947@yahoo.com, www. taoscountyhistoricalsociety.org Sept. 11–Dec. 8 CONSERVATION CREW Now hiring young men and women 18–25 for trail maintenance and/or forestry/ fuels reduction projects. Americorps members receive personal and professional

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development training. 575.751.1420, Youthcorps.org/apply Through Sept. 29 EARTH BAG BUILDING WORKSHOP Learn to build a sustainable, affordable, off-grid solar home. 575.770.0085, earthandsunsustainablebuilders.com Third Tues. Monthly, 5:30 and 7:30 pm TAOS ENTREPRENEURIAL NETWORK KTAOS Networking, presentations, discussion and professional services. Free. 505.776.7903, www.taosten.org

HERE & THERE Aug. 5, All Day NORTHERN RÍO GRANDE NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA CELEBRATION Casa Rosada (former Oñate Center), 848 State Rd. 68, Alcalde, NM Grand opening. A day of events, music, dance, art, education and food.

505.852.0030, www.RioGrandeNHA.org Aug. 10 AGSPIRIT ASSEMBLY NM Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum, Las Cruces Agricultural tech experts and entrepreneurs will discuss how to promote and develop investments in NM. Growers, suppliers and funders will attend. The AgSpirit accelerator program will pitch its products and services.

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GallupNativeArtsMarket.org Aug. 11 Application Review Deadline ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROPOSALS The NM Economic Development Dept. invites communities to submit proposals. Next FUNDIT meeting is Aug. 22, 1:30–3:30 at WESST Enterprise Center, 609 Broadway NE in ABQ. The meeting will help local leaders identify local, state and federal funding opportunities. Business, community, infrastructure development and downtown redevelopment projects are eligible. Commercial businesses are not.

RSVP: 505.827.0264, Johanna.Nelson@ state.nm.us

heritage and the environment. A cash or in-kind match is required.

505.852.0030, info@riograndenha.org, www.riograndenha.org Aug. 15–16 WRRI-NM WATER CONFERENCE NM Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM 62nd Water Resources Research Institute annual conference. The theme: Hidden Realities of New Water Opportunities.

Poster session showcasing water research around the state and region. https://nmwaterconference.nmwrri. nmsu.edu/2017/register/ Aug. 18, 9 am–3 pm PROTECTING FARMLAND AND WATER RIGHTS Los Luceros Ranch, Alcalde, NM Statewide conference/workshop.

Irrigating crops and pasture. Tools for land restoration. Ag revitalization techniques and demonstration. $15. Presented by the NM Acequia Assn. and USDA. 505.995.9644, www.lasacequias.org Aug. 21 TRIBAL JUSTICE PBS POINT OF VIEW National broadcast premiere of documentary on rehabilitation justice.

Two Native American judges reach back to traditional concepts of justice in order to reduce incarceration rates, foster greater safety for their communities, and create a more positive future for their youth.

Aug. 21–22 TRIBAL SUMMIT Twin Arrows Resort, Flagstaff, Ariz.

Gathering of tribal leaders, administrators, program directors and service providers to network and learn about new programs for Native communities in Northern Ariz. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/4th-annualtribal-summit-tickets-35225703026 Sept. 20–23, 10 am–1 pm MOTHER EARTH GATHERING: WATER IS LIFE Along riverbanks of northern New Mexico – TBA For all cultures and all ages. Sponsored by Tewa Women United, Honor Our Pueblos Existence, NM Acequia Assn. and others.

505.747.3259, info@tewawomenunited. org, tewawomenunited.org

First Mondays each month, 3–5 pm SUSTAINABLE GALLUP BOARD Octavia Fellin Library, Gallup, NM The City of Gallup’s Sustainable Gallup Board welcomes community members concerned about conservation, energy, water, recycling and other environmental issues. 505.722.0039.

Mon., Wed., Fri., Sat., 10 am–4 pm PAJARITO ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER 2600 Canyon Rd., Los Alamos, NM Nature center and outdoor education programs. Exhibits of flora and fauna of the Pajarito Plateau; herbarium, live amphibians, butterfly and xeric gardens.

505.662.0460, www.losalamosnature.org Tuesdays, 6–8 pm FAMILY NIGHT PEEC, Los Alamos, NM The second Tuesday of every month.

Games, activities experiments or crafts at the Nature Center. 505.662.0460, www. losalamosnature.org Weds., 10 am GREEN HOUR HIKES Los Alamos Nature Center, Los Alamos, NM Kid-centered hikes. Free. Losalamosnature.org 3rd Tues., 7 pm FOUR SEASONS GARDENING CLASSES Sabana Grande Rec Center 4110 Sabana Grande Ave. SE Río Rancho, NM http://sandovalmastergardeners.org First 3 Weds. Ea. Month, 6–7 pm SOLAR 101 CLASSES 113 E. Logan Ave., Gallup, NM Free classes about all things related to off-grid solar systems. No pre-registration necessary. 505.728.9246, gallupsolar@ gmail.com,Gallupsolar.org BASIC LITERACY TUTOR TRAINING Española area After training by the NM Coalition for Literacy, volunteer tutors are matched with an adult student. 505.747.6162, read@raalp. org, www.raalp.org/become-a-tutor.html SPIRIT OF THE BUTTERFLY 923 E. Fairview Land, Española, NM Women’s support group organized by Tewa Women United. Info/RSVP: Beverly, 505.795.8117

Aug. 15, 7:30 am Registration Begins NMSU AG SCIENCE CENTER FIELD DAY 1036 Miller St. SW, Los Lunas, NM Wagon tours, presentations, displays and demonstrations start at 9 am. Concludes with catered lunch at noon. Free and open to the public. 505.865.7340 Aug. 15, 5 pm Application Deadline NORTHERN RÍO GRANDE NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA GRANTS Communities, tribal and local governments, land grant associations and nonprofit organizations in Río Arriba, Santa Fe and Taos counties are eligible for grants ($3,000 or less) for initiatives that support the protection of

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