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REBUILDING SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES IN THE SOUTHWEST Hopi Tutskwa Sustainable Building Program

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ndigenous peoples have always built dwellings from the land and into the land. Hopi houses, traditionally built cooperatively by clans or families, are composed of sandstone gathered from mesa-tops or roughly cut, laid and finished in earth plaster. The ceilings are supported by ponderosa pine or piñón-juniper beams and cross poles and consist of a compressed mixture of brush and clay. The floors are constructed of flagstone or tamped earth, and the interior walls are generally whitewashed with white kaolin clays and sometimes ornamented in simple geometric bands.

These traditionally built stone-and-earth homes and traditional building techniques have been developed and nurtured by my people, the Hopi, for countless generations.

Last year in Kykotsmovi Village, young Hopi natural building students carried on these traditional building techniques as we began construction on our first home through the newly developed Hopi Tutskwa Sustainable Building Program. Through a partnership between Hopi Tutskwa Permaculture and Moab, Utah-based Community Rebuilds, we have developed a student education program that trains young emerging professionals in how to build affordable, energy-efficient and sustainable homes using local natural materials. In addition we offer low-interest home construction loans to qualifying lowincome families who are in need of housing.

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SANTO DOMINGO VILLAGE HOUSING PROJECT UNDERWAY ARTICLE AND PHOTOS BY SETH ROFFMAN

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anto Domingo Pueblo is situated about halfway between Albuquerque and Santa Fe on the same land tribal members have called home for thousands of years. The 5,200-member pueblo is now in the process of transforming itself into a 21st-century Rural Transit-Oriented Development (RTOD) that will celebrate the tribeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s heritage and artistic culture.

In May, after four years of planning and a Kewa prayer, the Santo Domingo Tribal Housing Authority broke ground on a 41-unit aï¬&#x20AC;ordable rental housing complex and a 3,000-square-foot community center with daycare, a computer lab, a playground, a basketball court and a large multipurpose space for social events.The complex is situated across from the newly rebuilt Santo Domingo Trading Post (a tribal arts incubator) and a New Mexico Rail Runner stop.

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The Housing Authority also participated in the design of the Heritage Arts Trail, a 1.5mile walking and biking path that will connect the housing complex to the central portion of the pueblo and provide six nodes where Pueblo artists can showcase their traditional and contemporary artwork. Running parallel to the Rail Runner route, the trail will be a critical artery of transportation in a place where car ownership is often expensive for community members. It is also intended to raise the awareness of passersby of the puebloâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s distinctive artistic culture.

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A 21st-century Rural TransitOriented Development will celebrate the tribeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s heritage and artistic culture.

Art Trail bring well-thought-out urban planning to Indian Country.

The master plan leverages creative place making, high-density housing and public transit to remake the community into a functional RTOD. The development is designed to mesh with the surrounding landscape.

The project has brought together innovative federal and state ďŹ nancing, along with a comprehensive, aďŹ&#x20AC;ordable housing development and design process. Many groups helped make the project possible. They include the Route 66 Corridor Preservation Program, New Mexico State University, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Mortgage Finance Authority, Native Capital Access and Cornerstone Community Partnerships.

Santo Domingo Pueblo is one of the more traditional pueblos and does not operate a casino. Some tribal members operate their own businesses. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Santo Domingo artisans value their independence through their entrepreneurship,â&#x20AC;? said Cynthia Aguilar, a librarian and member of the Housing Authority. Â

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INDIGENOUS DESIGN AND PLANNING

UNMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S INDIGENOUS DESIGN AND PLANNING INSTITUTE FORGES ITS ROLE IN PLACEMAKING TED JOJOLA AND MICHAELA SHIRLEY

A three-day workshop on Indigenous Planning was held with faculty, Indigenous students and Indigenous leaders from the region.

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he Indigenous Design and Planning Institute (iD+Pi) was established in the School of Architecture and Planning, UNM. As it continues to expand, it has made major inroads both in its work with Indigenous communities and with the Schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree programs.

Beginning in the fall of 2016, the Masters Program in Community and Regional Planning (CRP) will begin oďŹ&#x20AC;ering a new concentration in Indigenous Planning. The centerpiece of this curriculum is a capstone CRP studio called iTown (for Indigenous Town). iD+Pi has been oďŹ&#x20AC;ering a series of iTown studios, and projects have included Ysleta del Sur (Cultural Corridor Plan), NambĂŠ Pueblo (Plaza Restoration Project), Zuni Pueblo (Zuni MainStreet) and Santo Domingo Pueblo (Tribal Comprehensive Plan).

Similarly, as part of its international activities, a special study abroad iTown was oďŹ&#x20AC;ered in Ecuador during the summer of 2015.

This entailed an ecotourism project with the Kitchwa CaĂąari in the Andean village of Quilloac. Professors Ted Jojola and Laura Harjo were the lead instructors, accompanied by two other faculty, Levi Romero and AdĂŠlamar Alcantara. Eight graduate students and three staďŹ&#x20AC; rounded out the group.

The one-and-a-half-week visit was timed to coincide with the Inti Raymi summer solstice festival. After engaging with community leaders and being hosted at sacred sites, the group traveled to the University of San Francisco, Quito, where a three-day workshop on Indigenous Planning was held with faculty, Indigenous students and Indigenous leaders from the region.

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This fall, iD+Pi will partner with the UNM Indian Law program to conduct a joint iTown studio that entails an Art Masterplan for the Zuni MainStreet. Funding from ArtPlace America and the SURDNA foundation will allow engagement with Zuni artisans and youth to rethink the representation of its state highway into the pueblo. In turn, the plan will help inform a series of architecture design-build studios in the spring that will construct pop-up prototypes for vendors and tourists.

Because of such experiences, iD+Pi has begun to rethink its role in the school and in the university. Originally founded as an institute that would provide technical assistance, it is rethinking how it can use an education learning approach in design and planning. By integrating communitybased activities into a learning environment, ongoing projects would involve faculty, students and professionals into their team or individual coursework. By encompassing a broader mandate in

â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is interesting to note that among the professions, our designers and planners appear to be the ones who have been thrown out with the bathwater. For decades, well-meaning efforts have been directed towards medicine, education, law, business and engineering. Yet, the social indicators for our populations have either stayed the same or gotten worse. Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wrong with this picture? Its due time that design and planning become part of the solution, not the afterthought!â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;Śremarks by Ted Jojola at the designing Equity convening.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was looking at those abandoned houses. I wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just looking at old walls, but I was remembering what happened inside. I was remembering the laughter and the life that used to exist inside. What happened to that? Where did it go?â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;Śremarks from a Zuni Pueblo resident at a recent ZETAC, Zuni ArtPlace MainStreet teacher workshop.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Many people fall through the cracks. It starts with an unhealthy place and a dysfunctional community. All of this thinking is what propelled me explore the role schools have had in the historic and present-day community development of remote places. At least for my community, schools have been the center of that transformation. It was more than education. It created the roads, layered the basic infrastructure and attracted families to live nearby. This has been going on since the turn of the 20th century. And, It has been largely done without a cultural voice.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;Śremarks by Michaela Shirley at the designing Equity convening.

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Indigenous placemaking, interdisciplinary work with other degree programs could occur.

Indigenous planning is a movement that is established on the belief that Indigenous communities should beneďŹ t from the best practices that design and planning have to oďŹ&#x20AC;er, but in a manner that is culturally informed. It requires that leadership balance the immediacy of action (short term) with a comprehensive vision (long term). iD+Pi has been representing such approaches at various national venues. In May of 2016, for example, Ted Jojola, director, and Michaela Shirley, professional intern, of the Indigenous Design and Planning Institute (iD+Pi), UNM, were invited to set the tone for the convening of a designingEQUITY event staged in Washington,D.C.At this convening,the SURDNA foundation and NEA Artworks sponsored over 60 architects including landscape architects, to discuss approaches on community-engaged design.

These individuals and their organizations work in partnerships with communities of color and low income.

Other events continue to be staged. Since January, its work has been presented at the SmartGrowth conference in Portland, Oregon, and the ArtPlace America convening in Phoenix, Arizona, and its work will be showcased alongside others at a soon-to-be opening at the NYC Cooper-Hewett Museum of Design â&#x20AC;&#x153;By the People, Designing a Better Americaâ&#x20AC;? exhibit (Sept. 20, 2016 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Feb. 26, 2017). iD+Pi recently participated in an Indigenous Planning Summer Institute held at the College of Menominee Nation in Keshena, Wisconsin. Sponsored by the Sustainable Development Institute, its director, Chris Caldwell (Menominee Nation), teamed up with associate professor Kyle Whyte (Citizen Potawatomi Nation) to oďŹ&#x20AC;er a weeklong workshop for incoming student forestry interns. The central theme was on climate change and Indigenous Planning.

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A s i d e f r o m i D + P i â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s workshop presentations, one major takeaway was seeing how the Menominee tribe practiced sustainableyield forestry management.

It is the centerpiece of a burgeoning timber industry that not only provides economic opportunity but also affirms their cultural roles and identity. Unlike many forests, the goal is to diversify its stands by maintaining 14 diďŹ&#x20AC;erent cover types, each of which is an ecological mix of tree species. Groves of pine, beech, maple and hemlock coexist. Lumber harvest is not determined by outside demand but by what the ecosystem can yield. The cultural health of the people is directly attributed to the health of the forest.

Another highlight at the IP Summer Institute was a visit at the neighboring Oneida Tribal Nation of Wisconsin. Hosted by JeďŹ&#x20AC;rey Witte, Oneida Nation indigenous planner, a tour was given of lands that have been restored from farms to wetlands. Equally impressive was a cultural ArtBridge project that was constructed along a 2.6-mile walking trail that links public services to residential areas. Together, such successes demonstrate the power and value of placemaking.

In her remarks at a recent youth conference on STEAM (Science,Technology, Engineering, Art + Math), Michaela concluded, â&#x20AC;&#x153;ReďŹ&#x201A;ect, pray, and think about the type of places you envision. If it is one thing you remember about my talk it is this: Placemaking and Indigenous Planning at the end of day is about designing and planning a place where everyone belongs.â&#x20AC;?This aptly sums up iD+Piâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eďŹ&#x20AC;orts to date. # Ted Jojola, Ph.D., is director of iD+Pi and a Distinguished Professor and Regentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Professor, School of Architecture and Planning, University of New Mexico. He is from the Pueblo of Isleta.

PBS BROADCAST OF NATIVE AMERICAN GREEN: NEW DIRECTIONS IN TRIBAL HOUSING The Natural Heroes TV series, seen nationally on Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) stations, is airing an episode entitled Native American Green, produced by Sustainable Native Communities Collaborative with Adventure Pictures. Viewers can tune in locally or stream the program at http:// sustainablenativecommunities.org The show tells the stor y of a remarkable transformation in green architecture on Native American lands. A new generation of tribal leaders, architects and planners is creating sustainable buildings that restore traditions and revitalize native communities.

Native American Green features ďŹ ve of these innovative projects, including the Oweâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Nehbupingeh Rehabilitation Project. (Ohkay Owingeh in New Mexico was formerly known as San Juan Pueblo.) Oweâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;neh Bupingeh, the traditional name for the Ohkay Owingeh village center, has been occupied for at least 700 years. Sixty of the homes remain and are being restored with tribal members, earthen-building constructors and the team of Atkin Olshin Schade Architects.

The Menominee tribe practices sustainableyield forestry management.

Michaela Shirley is interning as an iD+Pi Program Specialist. She is a graduate of the Masters in Community and Regional Planning program at UNM. She is DinĂŠ (Navajo) from Kin Dah Lichii, Arizona.

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Hopi students along the way. According to program Director Jacobo Marcus, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re teaching the students every step of the way, which is what Community Rebuilds does.

Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re empowering them so that they can build homes together for their own families.

Since we started our program we have received a positive response from the Hopi community. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are in a very remote location, so weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re looking to empower the community here in Hopi,â&#x20AC;? Marcus said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re trying to empower the young and all people to gain the skills and knowledge so they can build their own house, which is how it was done for generations.â&#x20AC;?

Our first home was completed by our ďŹ rst group of natural-building students in October of 2015 and is a wonderful example of sustainability. It is a passive-solar designed home that features an oďŹ&#x20AC;-grid solar electrical system, rainwater har vesting cisterns, greywater plumbing, solar water-heating, trombe walls and a passive solar greenhouse. Building elements include local sandstone stem walls, exterior straw-bale walls, interior thermal mass cob walls, adobe ďŹ&#x201A;oors, earthen plasters, lime and tadelackt ďŹ nishes, and the use of natural wool insulation and locally sourced ponderosa pine.

addition, 75 percent of non-owners live with extended family, and 35 percent of homes are overcrowded (www.hopi.nsn.us).

There is also the problem of aďŹ&#x20AC;ordability and lack of agencies or programs that are addressing the need for aďŹ&#x20AC;ordable and sustainable housing.

Generally, homes constructed today include recently built cinderblock homes,manufactured homes (trailers) and poorly built federal HUD homes. Homes constructed today on the Hopi Reservation cost between $65,000 and $100,000. Statistically, 56.5 percent of the Hopi population is below poverty level, while 22.9 percent are considered low-incomeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; and therefore, adequate housing lies outside the financial reach of many. These statistics demonstrate the great need for aďŹ&#x20AC;ordable, culturally relevant housing within the Hopi community, and are typical of many Indigenous communities throughout the world.

There are many aspects of modern earth and natural stone construction that address these various housing problems within Indigenous communities.

Sustainable housing is particularly important for low-income families of Indigenous communities, who have the greatest need for utilities savings, lower maintenance costs and homes that are culturally sound. With the onset of global environmental problems and the effects of logging, mining and drilling for the construction industry and modern development, we understand that it is time to focus on ideas of sustainability and innovation when building communities.

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In addition, the homes are regenerative in design by functioning oďŹ&#x20AC;-grid, and families have the opportunity to grow a substantial amount of food in passive-solar greenhouses that are included in the building design.

Our focus is to make the homes as energyindependent as possible. The homes will be connected and interrelated to the environment to serve more than the function of housing.

They will interact with the environment in a positive wayâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;harvesting and reusing water to vegetate the landscape, generating energy needs from the sun and not from fossil fuels, and so much more.

Our program is committed to building aďŹ&#x20AC;ordable and culturally relevant sustainable housing for the Hopi community and is designed to address the critical housing need within the Hopi community, where families are often homeless or live in substandard housing. As within many Indigenous communities within the U.S. and around the world, new housing construction is of poor quality, ignorant of cultural needs, and expensiveâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;particularly in relation to income and traditional lifestyle. Within the Hopi community of 10,000, only 41 percent are homeowners, and 30 percent of existing housing has serious deďŹ ciencies. In

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Through the process of building homes, students and homeowners will gain opportunities to continue to be stewards of the environment. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We want to inspire the community to have a closer relationship with their homes and their own traditional knowledge,â&#x20AC;? Marcus said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;By having a closer relationship to the materials for the earthen walls and ďŹ&#x201A;oors, they know where the materials come from.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more appreciated and better for the environment to use natural materials,â&#x20AC;? he added. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our intent is to help people make wiser choices about buildings and to learn simple alternatives that we have known for thousands of years.â&#x20AC;?

Hopi Tutskwa Permaculture will ďŹ nish its second sustainable, natural home in August.

To follow our process online and read student blogs, visit our Facebook page: Hopi Tutskwa Permaculture: Natural Building Internship Program. And visit our website: www.hopitutskwapermaculture.com #

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OUR CLIMATE, OUR HEALTH VAL WANGLER, M.D.

But the health implications of climate change are not limited to forest fires.

Hotter summers mean higher rates of heat exhaustion and heat stroke. Oil and natural gas extraction and burning mean more pollutants in our air and water, leading to high rates of cardiac, pulmonary and other diseases. Warmer winters mean expanding ranges for “vector-borne disease,” those infections carried by mosquitoes and ticks. In the longer term, crops’ inability to adjust to climatic shifts will mean less food security and poorer nutrition, and sea level rise will displace untold numbers of coastal residents.

Indigenous people in many places lead the charge against climate change today.

Native Americans are and will continue to experience the effects of global warming acutely. Coastal Alaskan Native communities are being forced to vacate lands inhabited for many generations in favor of higher ground. In New Mexico, Native traditions dependent on traditional water supplies and crops are threatened by precipitation and temperature changes. Here in Zuni, the Zuni River, once the center of the community’s agriculture and ceremonies, now only flows occasionally, sitting dry much of the year.

The health effects of global warming are magnified in communities, such as many Native communities, with higher rates of chronic disease such as diabetes and respiratory disease. Similarly vulnerable are children and the elderly who have less capacity to regulate body temperature and fight off disease.

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The world has much to learn f rom indigenous people who successfully lived in balance with the natural wor ld for thousands of years, and who in many places lead the charge against climate change today.

In 2013, members of the Rosebud Sioux set up a Spirit Camp in opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline, slated to endanger water supply and areas important to several tribes.

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In New Mexico, too, tribal communities are leading the way with the vision and innovation to tackle this difficult issue. New Mexico’s first net-zeroenergy building was completed last October. Picurís Pueblo’s fire station runs completely on renewable energy and serves as an inspiration for other communities looking to reduce their c ar bon f oot pr int. Now, P icur ís is working to install a 1-megawatt solar array, enough to power all homes and tribal buildings there, and making it the nation’s first all solar-powered tribe. Over the next 25 years, this will generate $3.5 million in revenue for Picurís Pueblo.

Taos Pueblo’s Red Willow Farm pairs Taos’ rich agricultural history with cuttingedge ideas in sustainable agriculturesuch as solar-powered irrigation, a biomassheated greenhouse and organic farming methods. Red Willow inspires young community members to consider careers in agriculture by providing them with entrepreneur ial oppor tunities and resources. This approach means Taos Pueblo is able to address global warming and food security while growing healthy food for the community.

New Mexico’s Native communities are also impacted by the proximity of much of the state’s

In April, Navajo, regional and national conservation groups filed suit in federal district court, challenging the U.S. government’s approval of extending coal operations at Four Corners Power Plant and Navajo Mine through 2041. The groups say the approval failed to adequately analyze impacts to air, water, land, people and endangered fish and lacked any assessment of clean energy alternatives.

The lawsuit comes as the world’s largest mining company, Peabody Energy, joins Arch, Alpha, Patriot and other U.S. coal companies in bankruptcy, and as industry efforts to export more coal to Asia have hit roadblocks.

Meanwhile, the Navajo Nation has taken over ownership and liabilities of Navajo Mine from BHP Billiton and is preparing to buy El Paso Electric’s share of Four Corners Power Plant.

“We deserve real attention to how our region can diversify,” said Mike Eisenfeld, of San Juan Citizens Alliance, based in Farmington, New Mexico. “It’s a serious disservice for government leaders to tell the Four Corners to stick with collapsing coal without even a look at alternatives.”

Shiloh Hernandez, attorney with the Western Environmental Law Center said, “That the U.S. Department of the Interior has largely swept these dangers aside is a health and environmental injustice, and its deafening silence on transition options is an economic injustice.”

Carol Davis of Diné CARE said, “Approving 25 more years of coal mining and burning at the Navajo Mine and Four Corners Power Plant blindly assumes profitable operations when in reality they are suspect at best, and places the Navajo Nation at great economic risk with the cost of owning and operating Navajo Mine with full responsibility for eventual reclamation.”

“The same coal pollution that makes people sick is driving endangered fish toward extinction in the San Juan River,” said Taylor McKinnon of the Center for Biological Diversity.

“Mercury is the most common pollution problem in lakes and reservoirs in the region, and mercury is in coal pollution,” said Rachel Conn of Amigos Bravos.

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The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has postponed an oil and gas lease sale on San Juan Basin land near Chaco Canyon until Jan. 18, 2017.

Approximately 843 acres, 15 miles from the ruins of an 11th-century ceremonial great houseâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a three-story building that encloses a plaza and four kivas, and is surrounded by 14 buried kivas and a great kivaâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;have been proposed as drilling sites. Three parcels near Chaco Culture National Historical Park, a World Heritage Site, had been slated to be sold at the BLMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s October 2016 lease sale but were withdrawn to allow analysis related to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and for consultation with the 22 pueblos in New Mexico, the Navajo Nation, Hopi and Jicarilla Apache. The tribes consider the area â&#x20AC;&#x153;culturally sensitive,â&#x20AC;? or sacred. Rebecca Sobel, climate and energy senior campaigner for Wild Earth Guardians, a conservation group, said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is the ďŹ rst time that tribal consultation has been used as a reason for a postponement.â&#x20AC;?

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In 2015, the Western Environmental Law Center filed suit against two federal agencies on behalf of the Navajo organization DinĂŠ Citizens Against Ruining our Environment (DinĂŠCARE) in an attempt to prevent horizontal fracking around Chaco Canyon.In March 2016, the law centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attorneys were in federal court in Denver arguing their case. Erik Schlenker-Goodrich, executive director of the Western Environmental Law Center, said in a statement about the litigation, â&#x20AC;&#x153;If we win, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll create space for a dialogue about keeping fossil fuels in the ground and investing in a just transition of the region toward clean energy.â&#x20AC;?

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The Zuni River, once the center of much of the communityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s agriculture and ceremonies, now only flows occasionally. disease such as heart attacks and stroke.And high air pollution days studied in other communities correlate with a higher all-cause death rate.

Near Chaco Canyon, where land ownership is a checkerboard of tribal, private, federal and state, fracking (hydraulic fracturing) poses other grave concerns. Local Community Health Workers are concerned about rates of cancer, asthma and upper-respiratory problems and are worried that these are related to fracking in the area. Concerned Navajo

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citizens and leaders have joined together with the Sierra Club, health groups, community members and volunteers to conduct a Health Impact Rapid Assessment (HIRA) to document citizensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; levels of exposure to toxic emissions. Leaders of the Counselor, Torreon-Star Lake and Ojo Encino Chapters all passed emergency declarations supporting the assessment and voicing their concern for the health eďŹ&#x20AC;ects of nearby oil activity. By understanding and documenting the impact that fracking has on Navajo people and local lands, the HIRA will further empower the three chapters and other communities to demand transparency, improve safety and reduce health hazards for the community.

Three hundred acres in Kayenta, Arizona, have begun to host an array of photovoltaic panels that will constitute the Navajo Tribal Utility Authorityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ďŹ rst utility-scale solar plant. It will be capable of powering about 7,700 homes. The $64 million 27-megawatt (MW) plant, funded by federal loans and tax credits, will be completed by the end of 2016.

By buying some of the electricity the project will generate, the Salt River Project, a major utility in the Phoenix area, will get credits toward meeting its mandated goal of getting 20 percent of its energy from sustainable sources by 2020. The Salt River Project also has a two-year agreement with the tribal utility to buy power from a natural gas plant the tribe invests in.

The project has broad support from the Kayenta community, one of the few places where there is a large population of Navajos. The tribe was traditionally a loose confederation of semi-nomadic clans, and many Navajos today live in more isolated desert areas. The Kayenta site also has access to an electrical substation and transmission lines that can carry power to homes in the region. The Navajo Nation has never before generated any of its own electricity, except for a few small solar facilities. The tribal utility reportedly spent $30 million on electricity in 2014.

The health impacts of climate change are daunting, especially for New Mexicoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s indigenous communities.With a long history of living in successful balance with the land and the ingenuity and dedication of these communities today, however, our Native communities hold many solutions in the ďŹ ght to protect human health from these dire threats. # Val Wangler, M.D., is a family physician and member of Physicians for Social R e s po n s i b i l i t y, s pe c i a l i z i n g i n t h e intersection of climate change and human health. vwangler@gmail.com

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Wandering, hunting, living, loving life, we were once free.

One breath with the stars and earth, all that we could see.

On life path of blissful hardship where we were supposed to be.

With blessed ways, values and songs, we knew who to be.

Columbus came stumbling, unleashing euro-colonist attack.

Conquistador enslaved the people for God, Gold and Glory, Mexican stole our women and children; we hit them back.

Eons-old paleface war on tribal peoples is our painful story.

Doctrine of Discovery commanded by the pope endorsed annihilation to quench euphoric lust to amass all the gold.

Old world savages do genocide, imposing christiandom by force, kidnap, slavery, disease blanket, long walk treacheries unfold.

Scheming U.S. government complicit in rape of our lands, instituting colonial governmental ways to get the oil lease.

Our grandpa leaders didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see devious government plan was to allow greedy corporations to dig up the energy beast.

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With whispered prayers, miners go deep into the earth, Unsuspecting, unprotected, they werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t told of the danger.

Industryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s expendable family dying, uranium is our curse.

Our miner men are gone, left us with tears, cancer and anger.

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Frack poison leaking into aquifer waters is our nightmare fright.

We say clearly and strongly that our earth is hurt and weary, there is little notice, people are comfy, don’t seem to care.

5LFKHV E\ JUHHG VFKHPLQJ IRU PRUH LV $PHULFDQ ZD\ DQG WKHRU\ Unconscionable exploitation destroying, earth life end is near.

We are earth, earth is us, we cedar and sing her our songs.

Government bureaucrats don’t see sanctity of sacred sites.

Crap on, dig up medicine mountains are sacrilegious wrongs.

Sleazy playground on a place of emergence is no way right.

FOOD SOVEREIGNTY AND TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE GATHERING FOR CLIMATE CHANGE RESILIENCY

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Coal burn climate change is here, earth is furious and crying.

By Chili Yazzie

Our elders lived the beauty and happy times of life of earth.

Now we see a future of troubles, what about our little ones?

ƵŐƵƐƚ ϭϮʹϭϯ͕ ^ŚŝƉƌŽĐŬ͕ EĂǀĂũŽ EĂƟŽŶ

/Ŷ ƚŚĞƐĞ ƟŵĞƐ ŽĨ ƵŶĐĞƌƚĂŝŶƚLJ ŽĨ ƚŚĞ ůŝĨĞ ŽĨ ŽƵƌ ĂƌƚŚ DŽƚŚĞƌ ĂŶĚ Ăůů ůŝĨĞ ŽŶ ŝƚ͕ ŝŶ ƚŚĞƐĞ ĚĂLJƐ ŽĨ ǁĞĂƚŚĞƌ ǀŽůĂƟůŝƚLJ ĂŶĚ ŵŽŵĞŶƚƐ ŽĨ ĂƉƉƌĞŚĞŶƐŝŽŶ ŽŶ ƚŚĞ ƋƵĂůŝƚLJ ŽĨ ůŝĨĞ ĨŽƌ ŽƵƌ ŐĞŶĞƌĂƟŽŶƐ ƚŽ ĐŽŵĞ͕ ǁĞ ƐĞĂƌĐŚ ĨŽƌ Ă ǀŽŝĐĞ ŽĨ ƌĞĂƐŽŶ ĂŶĚ ĐůĂƌŝƚLJ ŽŶ ŽƵƌ ĐŽŶĚŝƟŽŶ͘ dŚĞ /ŶĚŝŐĞŶŽƵƐ ƉĞŽƉůĞƐ ŽĨ ƚŚĞ tĞƐƚĞƌŶ ,ĞŵŝƐƉŚĞƌĞ ŚĂǀĞ ŵĂŝŶƚĂŝŶĞĚ ƚŚĞŝƌ ƐƚŽƌŝĞƐ ĂŶĚ ƐŽŶŐƐ ĂŶĚ ŚĂǀĞ ƌĞƚĂŝŶĞĚ ƚŚĞŝƌ ŽƌŝŐŝŶĂů ƌĞůĂƟŽŶƐŚŝƉ ǁŝƚŚ ƚŚĞ ĂƌƚŚ ĂŶĚ ƚŚƵƐ ŚĂǀĞ ĂŶƐǁĞƌƐ ƚŚĂƚ ƚŚĞ ǁŽƌůĚͲŝŶͲƚƌŽƵďůĞ ƐŚŽƵůĚ ďĞ ƐĞĞŬŝŶŐ͘ dŚĞ ^ŚŝƉƌŽĐŬ ĐŽŵŵƵŶŝƚLJ ŝƐ ŚŽƐƟŶŐ ƚŚĞ &ŽŽĚ ^ŽǀĞƌĞŝŐŶƚLJ ĂŶĚ dƌĂĚŝƟŽŶĂů <ŶŽǁůĞĚŐĞ 'ĂƚŚĞƌŝŶŐ ĨŽƌ ůŝŵĂƚĞ ŚĂŶŐĞ ZĞƐŝůŝĞŶĐLJ ŽŶ ƵŐ͘ ϭϮ ĂŶĚ ϭϯ͘ ƉƉƌŽƉƌŝĂƚĞ ŬŶŽǁůĞĚŐĞ ǁŝůů ďĞ ƐŚĂƌĞĚ ŽŶ ƚŚĞ ĐŽŶĚŝƟŽŶ ŽĨ ƚŚĞ ĂƌƚŚ ĂŶĚ ǁŚĂƚ ǁĞ ŵƵƐƚ ĚŽ͘ dŝŵĞͲŚŽŶŽƌĞĚ ƉƌĂĐƟĐĞƐ ǁŝůů ďĞ ƐŚĂƌĞĚ ŽŶ ƚƌĂĚŝƟŽŶĂů EĂƟǀĞ ĂŐƌŝĐƵůƚƵƌĞ͕ ĨŽŽĚ ƉƌĞƐĞƌǀĂƟŽŶ͕ EĂƟǀĞ ƉůĂŶƚƐ ĂŶĚ ŵĞĚŝĐŝŶĞƐ͕ ƉĞƌŵĂĐƵůƚƵƌĞͬǁĂƚĞƌƐŚĞĚ ƉƌŽũĞĐƚƐ ĂŶĚ ǁĂƚĞƌ ƐĞĐƵƌŝƚLJ͘ dŚĞƌĞ ǁŝůů ĂůƐŽ ďĞ ƚĂůŬƐ ŽŶ ƚŚĞ ĚŝůĞŵŵĂ ŽĨ zĞůůŽǁ ZŝǀĞƌʹ'ŽůĚ <ŝŶŐ DŝŶĞ ƐƉŝůů͕ ĨƌĂĐŬŝŶŐ͕ ŝŶĚŝŐĞŶŝnjŝŶŐ ĂŶĚ ĚĞĐŽůŽŶŝnjĂƟŽŶ͕ ŶĞǁ ĚŝƌĞĐƟŽŶƐ ŝŶ ůĂŶĚ͕ ǁĂƚĞƌ͕ ĨŽŽĚ ƉŽůŝĐLJ ĂŶĚ /ŶĚŝŐĞŶŽƵƐ ůĞĂĚĞƌƐŚŝƉ ŝƐƐƵĞƐ͘ tĞ ǁŝůů ĚƌĂŌ Ă ĞĐůĂƌĂƟŽŶ ŽĨ hŶŝƚLJ ƐƚĂƚĞŵĞŶƚ͘ &ƌŝĚĂLJ ĞǀĞŶŝŶŐ ƚŚĞƌĞ ǁŝůů ďĞ ĐĂŵĂƌĂĚĞƌŝĞ͕ ƐŽŶŐ ĂŶĚ ƐƚŽƌŝĞƐ͘

Child of earth rise, sing the drum, stand to defend the earth.

Indigenous must turn the tide, weren’t we the chosen ones?

Duane H. Yazzie (Chili), a down-to-earth farmer, is president of the Shiprock Chapter and served as the first chairman of the Navajo Human Rights Commission. As a champion of indigenous peoples’ civil rights, Yazzie has participated in many non-violent actions. In 1978, in a probable hate crime, he was shot twice, resulting in the loss of his right arm. chili_yazzie@hotmail.com

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THE PAOLO SOLERI AMPHITHEATER Envisioned as a Center for Native American Performing Arts CONRAD SKINNER

The Paolo Soleri Amphitheater, built between 1966 and 1970 and named by New in its architect’s honor, today remains embedded in the earth of the ancient Santa Fe watershed plain.

It was designed as a highly functional theatrical machine to encompass the unique needs of Indian theater.

– Lloyd Kiva New When established in 1962,the IAIA offered the first academic curriculum in multidisciplinary arts education to indigenous students from the Americas. Native drama and architecture were prominent innovations contemporaneously born at the IAIA. Christy Stanlake, in her

Native American Drama: A Critical Perspective, while acknowledging early

20th-century public Indian writer/performers such as Te Ata (Chickasaw), Lynn Riggs (Cherokee) and Will Rogers (Cherokee), cites the IAIA program as the first formal training dedicated to Indian writers and performers.

Lloyd New believed that earth-formed construction suited an Indian theater.

New’s Credo for American Indian Theater provided the f r ame work within which drama instructor Rolland Meinholtz, dance instructor Rosalie Jones Daystar and others invented tenets of Native performance, some of which seem to derive from ritual but remain secular. © Seth Roffman

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harles Loloma, Hopi jeweler, brought Cherokee educator Lloyd Kiva New to visit visionary architect Paolo Soleri at his Cosanti Foundation in Arizona in the fall of 1962.

The three discussed building a theater for contemporary Indian performing arts at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where New was the arts director. Loloma, working in cast metals, evidenced curiosity about Soleri’s siltcast bells. Soleri, an ex-Frank Lloyd Wright apprentice, had also been casting on a much larger scale, shaping his foundation’s campus in concrete over molded-earth forms.

We believe that young Indian People must be trained in the fullest degree regarding all aspects of theatre; the history of universal forms, the technical aspects, acting, speech and movement. Against this understanding they must then be led to examine culture for that which is theatrical and then find ways to interpret those unique aspects for contemporary audiences in true theater settings.

New proclaimed the requirement for an IAIA theater building: If Indian theater is to happen, the emphasis must be upon that which is culturally unique to the American Indian, in terms of performance, actor-audience relationship and a uniquely conceived architectural setting ... it must be a highly functional theatrical machine designed to encompass the unique needs of Indian theater.

Rolland Meinholtz, in Notes on Indian Theater and Practice, voiced the theater’s architectural program: The theater should be designed in such a way that theatrical action is not necessarily localized to the stage area. Action in the aisles, at the sides, in the midst of and behind the audience should seem feasible.

The arrangement of spectator and audience should make it plain that the theater is a three-dimensional art.

Lloyd Kiva New N received eived a standing din ovation at the Native Roots & Rhythms Festival in 1998.

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Soleri’s imagination transformed the IAIA ideas into architecture. The amphitheater divides vertically into upper and lower zones, with the lower level—the main stage— backed by a cave-like shell, labeled in his sketches as “physical” and the upper level denoted as “ghostly.” Double worlds. Soleri programmed the upper in two modes— weather, and the diurnal cycle that coincide

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SITE Santa Fe’s SITElines 2016 exhibition, "much wider than a line," on view through Jan. 8, 2017, includes Paolo Soleri's original drawings for the theater's design. in a central sun symbol. At the extreme left, a moon bridge crosses a canyon ramping down from an artificial hill.

The IAIA withdrew from the campus during the 1980s as the Santa Fe Indian School returned, with its student body drawn largely from New Mexico pueblos.

The Indian School used the amphitheater for its graduation, spoken-word performances and talent shows. The school also opened it to privately booked concerts ranging from Bob Dylan to Bob Marley to the Tibetan Gyuto Monks, events extremely popular in Santa Fe. From 1996 to 2008, Seth Roffman produced or coproduced 13 Native Roots & Rhythms Festivals, which were impressive showcases for traditional and contemporary Native American music, dance, storytelling, theater and comedy, staged in conjunction with Santa Fe Indian Market.

In 2010, the Indian School suddenly announced the amphitheater’s planned demolition, which drew a great outcry, and fortunately, for a building with such a rich history, which is, for now, in abeyance.

Despite its potential as a center for Native American performing arts, the amphitheater today stands empty and crumbling behind a chain-link fence with new campus buildings built close by. Coyotes are rumored to have taken up residence within its hidden passageways. Its future is uncertain. $ Architect Conrad Skinner has written a histor y of the Paolo S o l e r i A m p h i t h e a t e r.

In 2014, he delivered a TEDxABQ talk, Architecture Ahead of its Time: The Paolo Soleri Amphitheater.

NATIVE ROOTS & RHYTHMS PERFORMING ARTS FESTIVAL PAOLO SOLERI AMPHITHEATER 1996–2008

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ver the course of 13 years, as a result of the Native Roots & Rhythms Festival, the Paolo Soleri Amphitheater at the Santa Fe Indian School became the country’s leading venue for contemporary and traditional Native American performing arts. In respectful and creative ways that bridged heritage and talent, NR&R showcased established entertainers while providing a platform for up-and-coming performers. The ambitious productions were designed to appeal to both Native audiences and visitors from around the

world. The festival was profiled in national and international media.

Each year took a different approach; from a show with a traditional focus that projected close-ups of the performers, combined with images of land and culture onto large screens above the stage—to a variety show that featured Native rock, rap, blues and reggae. Award-winning musical acts were often interspersed with dance troupes, comedy and film clips of Native actors. Some years the production was more theatrical.

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Fifty singers and dancers from New Mexico’s 19 pueblos opened the show in 2004 with a traditional song. NR&R presented the American Indian Dance Theater several times. Some of the other performers that were featured: Buffy Ste. Marie, Floyd Westerman Red Crow, R. Carlos Nakai, Joanne Shenandoah, John Trudell, Robert Mirabal, Bill Miller, Ulali, Walela with Rita Coolidge, Joy Harjo,Kevin Locke,Litefoot,A. Paul Ortega, Vincent Craig, Mary Redhouse, Brent Michael Davids, Mary Youngblood, Derek Miller, Black Eagle, Drew Lacapa, Charlie Hill, Keith Secola, Radmilla Cody, Arvel Bird, Jim Boyd, Rulan Tangen, Casper, Native Roots, Clan Destine, Levi and the Plateros, Hopi Second Mesa Dancers, Pamua (from Alaska) and many others.

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provided positive role models for Native youth and mentorship to aspiring producers and performers through workshops facilitated by participants and collaborators that included GRAMMY in the Schools® and Emergence Productions.

Native Roots & Rhythms was sponsored by the Santa Fe-based nonprofit, Southwest Learning Centers (SWLearningCenters. org). The festival received funding from the Eight Northern Indian Pueblos Council, the Seminole Tribe of Florida, Acoma Business Enterprises, New Mexico Arts (then a division of the New Mexico Dept. of Cultural Affairs), the New Mexico Department of Tourism, the McCune Charitable Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.

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ribal populations are doubling every 18 years. The 2.5 million American Indians living on or near the 560-plus tribes spread across the United States are concerned about four areas of scarcity : water, food, energy and healthcare.

After much thought and consideration, a dedicated group of highly accomplished individuals committed to positive change has decided to launch a new not-for-profit organization, F lower Tree Institute. T h e J e m e z Pueblo-based group recognized the impor tant elements to Indian tr ibes and Indian peoples as Ar t, A g r i c u l t u r e , Wa t e r a n d C l i m a t e Change. They decided to work with these elements through a communityand economic-development approach concentrating on youth, language and cultural preservation.

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Flower Hillâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s executive director will be Roger Fragua of Cota Enterprises, who has worked with tribal development in the energy sector. Brophy Toledo will ser ve as a cultural advisor. A management team, board of directors and an advisory board comprised of people f rom many different tribes is being formed. The group intends to seek funding f rom corporate and tribal sponsorships, federal grants and f rom presenting conferences and workshops.

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What do the practices used by American Indian farmers in the Southwest for millennia teach as contemporary farmers work to build a resilient and regenerative agriculture?

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The Santa Fe National Forest has released an environmental impact statement draft to help forest managers determine the viability of utilityscale geothermal energy development on public lands. The plants generate electricity by recirculating water heated by the Earthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s core to turn turbines.

The U.S. Geological Survey has identified 195,000 acres west and north of the Valles Caldera National Preserve in the Coyote, JĂŠmez and EspaĂąola ranger districts as having significant geothermal potential. Parts of the Santa Fe National Forest could be leased for exploration and development of geothermal starting in 2017. The popular JĂŠmez National Recreation Area is among some parts of the JĂŠmez Mountains that would be excluded from geothermal exploration.

Years ago, the Jemez Pueblo had many gardens and fields in and around the pueblo. In recent years there have been just a few, but farmers who are part of Flower Tree Institute are actively working to keep traditional farming alive and build sustainable local food systems. Although there are great challenges involved in passing the torch to the next generation, the farmers have found it to be very gratifying. Growing crops seen many years ago reinforces connections to elders, and ancestors and strengthens the culture.

Public meetings on the topic were held at Jemez Pueblo and El Rito last month. Written comments on the draft are being accepted through Aug. 22. MarĂ­a GarcĂ­a, the forest manager, is then expected to make a final decision on whether some of the land will be leased. At previous meetings, public concerns were raised regarding where transmission lines would be located, and the potential for seismic activity as a result of geothermal power operations around a collapsed volcano. Advocates say that geothermal can generate a lot of energy with minimal geological disturbance.

Musician/farmer Justin Casiquito is among the participating farmers. A father of two, Casiquito accompanied his father in the ďŹ elds as a young child and has been farming ever since. For the last eight years he has planted an organic ďŹ eld at the pueblo. He wants to provide nutritious homegrown options for Pueblo people and increase fresh foodsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; accessibility and aďŹ&#x20AC;ordability.

For more information about Flower Tree Institute, write to P.O. Box 692, Jemez Pueblo, New Mexico, 87024. Â&#x20AC;

In recent years, Jemez Pueblo drilled geothermal test wells and found water that was not hot enough for commercial energy production. Heated greenhouses, tilapia farms and hot springs are currently utilizing geothermal resources in the area.

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Jemez Pueblo has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government over the title to 89,000 acres that include the Valles Caldera National Preserve. The federal government, which purchased it from a private owner in 2000, claims that the pueblo abandoned its title to the land.

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BACK TO MOTHER EARTH

Pueblo Men Reconnect to Traditional Activities in “Healing Fields” JON NARANJO

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n a recent hot summer’s day, a client named Bruce was working in a field adjacent to the Española Farmers’ Market. To no one in particular, he said, “I know what I am doing here; I’m a farmer!”That statement resonates deeply. Pueblo men cultivated and farmed these lands in the Tewa Basin thousands of years ago. How many Pueblo men before Bruce have shared this sentiment?

Bruce and 13 others, including staff from New Moon Lodge, are working in unison this season, planting, cultivating, irrigating, weeding and working with the soil as part of individualized programs to recover from chemical dependency.

A thousand years ago there was no such thing as chemical dependency.

New Moon Lodge is a 14-bed inpatient facility at the Pueblo of Ohkay Owingeh that provides treatment programs for Native American men. The agriculture initiative is part of the Circle of Life program coordinated by Eight Northern Indian Pueblos Council, Inc. New Moon Lodge is a place of healing and transition for people with chemical dependency problems who are on the road to recovery.

The lodge is a low-intensity, clinically managed, residential treatment program.

Its goal is to provide an environment that supports clients in making appropriate choices so that they can establish and maintain a clean and sober lifestyle.

This year, New Moon Lodge entered into a partnership with the Española Farmers’ Market to use its land to grow crops so that the lodge’s farmland can recover from 20 years of production. In exchange, New Moon Lodge cleaned up the front entrance and set up signs for the market. The lodge’s clients have planted sweet corn, traditional heirloom white and blue corn, a variety of watermelons, string beans, Indian tobacco and onions.

Most of the participants agree that working in the 2-acre field reminds them of growing

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Jon Naranjo cultivating crops in Española up and playing in the fields as their fathers and uncles worked. A few have never planted and are learning experientially. One of our clients, Henry, said, “I love working in the field. It makes me feel good smelling the water as it rolls over the dry dirt, listening to the birds and working with others, but most of all, sharing the harvest.” These men come from various Pueblo, Navajo or Apache families and talk about how they lost connection with this kind of work.

Another client expressed a different view.

He said, “This is hard work and it is hot standing under the sun for hours. I did not sign up for hard labor!” Working with this individual, discussing the benefits of how working in a farm field can help a person, persuaded him to open up his heart and his mind. He eventually changed his attitude.

What does working in the field provide? It definitely is hard work. Asking someone who has not participated in physically demanding work to stand out under the hot sun for hours cultivating, irrigating or cutting weeds naturally will elicit protests. It is not apparent at first that this is an opportunity to learn skills that can reap physical, health, spiritual, cultural and financial benefits.

Working the land helps clear the mind as one focuses on the tasks at hand. One can take advantage of this time to think through problems that may be hindering

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A thousand years ago there was no such thing as chemical dependency. The “healing fields,” as we call them, allow an individual to partake in a role as a Pueblo man, to reconnect to cultural and traditional activities that reeducate and provide selfsustaining life skills.

Pueblo agriculture personal progress. Working the land is holistic therapy. Working with the soil, water, plants and even grasshoppers does something magical that is cleansing, simple and methodically slow, which teaches even the most experienced and knowledgeable farmer patience and humility.

Some of the crops produced in these “healing fields” are sold at the Eight Northern Indian Pueblos Arts and Farmers’ Market, which is held every Saturday through Oct. 8, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The market is located at 327 Eagle Drive,

Ohkay Owingeh, just north of Española, behind the Ohkay Casino. They are also sold at the Española Farmers’ Market, which operates on Mondays and Fridays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. through Oct. 31 at 1005 Railroad Ave. in Española.

The crops also supplement the nutritional program at New Moon Lodge. If you are interested in purchasing produce, call 505.852.2788 or email: JNaranjo@colbhn.com # Jon Naranjo (Santa Clara/Hopi) is a programs coordinator for the Eight Northern Indian Pueblos Council.

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NATIVE FOOD SOVEREIGNTY: Growing A Food System AT Taos Pueblo ADDELINA LUCERO

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s a result of historical trauma, a succession of treaties, forced assimilation and federal underfunding, Native Americans continue to experience higher rates of health, educational and economic disparities than the general population of the United States.

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Taos Mountain overlooks a blue corn field at Red Willow Farm time and how we can develop youth and community activities, projects and programs to address these issues. To encourage positive change and a return to traditional agriculture, we provide farmers and the community access to resources they need.

Food is directly linked to our identity, our spirituality, our land, water and familial systems.

RWC operates a diverse vegetable farm and a small orchard. It includes four greenhouses (two heated for winter production), a seasonal 1½-acre field, an outdoor and indoor yearround farmers’ market (Wednesdays, 11 am to 6 pm), full-site drip irrigation, cold storage for produce, a biomass district heating system that serves three onsite organizations in three buildings, solar-thermal and 3.2-kW solar photovoltaic systems, an additional subterranean phase-change heating/cooling system in one greenhouse, an online, realtime data readout system for important operating parameters (still being refined) and a compost site.

Traditionally, food is more than just sustenance or a dietary or health concern; it is sacred. It is directly linked to our identity, our spirituality, our land, water and familial systems. It is a huge consideration as we keep in mind our future generations.

Through dances, songs, food processes and feasts that coincide with planting and harvest seasons, we practice and continue our way of life.

Yet we still have to contend with disruption and loss.

Red Willow’s educational activities include observing and discussing agricultural and food system disruption, federal food policy and its effects on our community over

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THE RED WILLOW CENTER

Red Willow Center (RWC) is a 501(c) (3) nonprofit demonstration farm, located at Taos Pueblo. The center’s goal is to “revitalize the agricultural heritage of the Taos Pueblo community and re-establish food sovereignty by regaining control of and rebuilding its food system.” RWC seeks to accomplish this and support the health of our people by demonstrating sustainable farming, providing community and youth education and increasing tribal members’ access to local healthy foods.

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Taos Pueblo has not been immune to these effects. In addition to loss of land, water and language, we have endured countless dietary changes since European occupation.

And we have witnessed a steady decline in our traditional agriculture and its role in our daily lives. This has impacted our economic structure, our traditional ways of knowing and our culture. At Taos Pueblo we practice purposeful acts to maintain our lifeways and the pathways of our ancestors through prayer, reflection and religious practices.

recovery and experiential training. RWC also collaborates with several Taos Pueblo programs: Healthy Hearts (via incentive bucks), Headstart (school garden), Senior Center (garden and orchard care) and Community Health (recipe sharing, fresh produce and logistics planning). The center also works with the town of Taos’ Holy Cross Hospital cancer program and with the Regional Farmers Market.

YOUTH INVOLVEMENT

The Heart of Red Willow Center is youth. Youth involvement is vital to the success of the center’s mission. Traditional growing practices are integrated with modern technology to teach our future leaders. Youth participants are fully engaged in the entire process—f rom seed to sell—with the hope of inspiring and creating farmers and agricultural business people. In an outdoor classroom, valuable skills taught include practical math, communication, responsibility and cooperation, environmental responsibility and Tiwa language and its application to farming and community. Students are offered opportunities to gain life and job skills through hands-on farming. They also develop an understanding of healthy nutrition, Taos Pueblo’s traditional food system, native food sovereignty and how to create a sustainable community. All the interns have year-round paid positions that offer the youth an opportunity to grow, sell, donate or keep their own produce.

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Youth engagement in traditional farming

The Red Willow Center partners with local high schools and the University of New Mexico/ Taos to provide credit

Students and mentor visit Taos Pueblo Dry Creek, where their ancestors farmed Through providing education and cultivating awareness, we believe that we can help reverse the effects of historical trauma in our community. Demonstrating that farming is a viable way to make a living is crucial for the success of our programs, along with the understanding that a return to our traditional agriculture is a step in the right direction in order to maintain, preserve and pass on this heritage to future generations, as well as a means to protect our land and water.

For more information, call 575.770.8688, email addelinalucero@gmail.com or visit www.redwillowcenter.com " Addelina Lucero, executive director of Red Willow Center/Farm, is an active Taos Pueblo tribal member.

She grows traditional crops of blue and white corn, red beans, pumpkins and squash, and runs a homebased business producing handmade, organic, all-natural personal care products.

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outh are the future of a culture. A modern Native American dilemma is how to blend traditional and contemporary lifeways to forge a future based on time-honored traditions.

Over the past 30 years, the Oo-Oo-Nah Art Center has provided the gift of traditional and contemporary arts to Taos Pueblo’s children, youth, young adults and senior citizens. The center’s history of cultural sharing has been an integral part of that gift.

Oo-Oo-Nah’s approach is unique in Indian Country. The center operates separately from Taos Pueblo government.

It was developed and is directed by Marie Reyna, with extensive assistance from tribal members as well as non-Indian volunteers.

Oo-Oo-Nah means “any children.”

Children from Taos Pueblo pose on the bridge over the Río Pueblo Inside the Oo-Oo-Nah Center

The unemployment rate at Taos Pueblo is 11.1 percent—double the New Mexico rate. Income per capita at the pueblo is $14,900, compared to the state per capita of $23,749. Oo-Oo-Nah’s programs address poverty by strengthening cultural retention and making employment in the arts possible for many people.

TEACHING THE ARTS

Worldview relationships with nature and language are learned through the cultural arts.Throughout Taos Pueblo’s history, a wide range of cultural arts, both utilitarian and decorative, have been integrated into everyday life. The arts have also been important to traditional trade, where relationships with other tribes resulted in increased diversity of food, materials, tools and art supplies.

Art making is traditionally taught in the family. The Oo-Oo-Nah Center’s Robert Abeyta Memorial Mentorship Program encourages the family style of teaching, utilizing intergenerational mentoring. Other programs are often jump-started through these classes. The mentorship program focuses on preserving traditional arts such as micaceous pottery-making, buckskin sewing, red willow basketry, jewelry-making, leatherwork (moccasins, knife sheath, pouches) and the making of traditional clothing. Oo-Oo-Nah’s CONTINUED ON PAGE 35

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Firing-up the horno for baking Baking pies in an horno at the pueblo

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Marie Reyna, founder of the Oo-Oo-Nah Center, 2016 Heritage squash harvest

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Río Puerco Alliance has worked on various types of restoration projects to positively impact the Río Puerco Watershed. One of its most successful has been the Navajo Summer Youth Project. This provides training, supervision and salaries for students at Easter n Navajo c hapters, most notabl y O jo Encino and Torreon, with students also coming f rom Counselor, Pueblo Pintado and White Horse Lake. Students construct and maintain water-har vesting and erosion-control str uctures, largel y constructed of rock.

At least 12 students work for six to eight weeks on erosion control and water harvesting projects.

Students f rom earlier programs, who have gone on to college, have returned as super visors and trainers during their summer vacations. Three former super visors have started their own businesses installing erosion-control structures on ranches. Others have received master’s degrees, scholarships to universities, or have chosen other professions, such as dental assistant.

RPA has worked for more than 10 years with the Eastern Navajo chapters to maintain and fund a summer program where at least 12 students work for six to eight weeks on erosion-control and water-harvesting projects. This program has kept a high proportion of Navajo youth—who have one of the highest unemployment rates in the state—employed during the summer.

It has taught those kids about their watershed and instilled in them an interest in further education about watershed issues, among other things.

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oving large rocks in the hot sun may not sound like your idea of a great s u m m e r, b u t m a n y y o u t h i n t h e Eastern Navajo Agency compete to be hired for just that job. This summer, Eastern Navajo youth were busy completing a variety of low-tech erosion-control projects as part of the Río Puerco Alliance’s Navajo Summer Youth Project.

Constructing a media luna

Over the course of 12 years, students have installed more than 2,000 structures— one-rock dams, media lunas (semi-circles), headcut control structures and Zuni Bowls— designed by noted southwestern U.S. stream and wetland restoration consultant Bill Zeedyk of Zeedyk Ecological Consulting. The United States Geological Ser vice (USGS) has monitored the success of these structures and discovered that areas treated with them retain 60 to 66 percent more sediment than untreated areas. In other words, these low-cost projects, using only Navajo youth and rocks, have been having a significant, measurable effect controlling erosion and improving water quality.

This summer, the crew—as usual— was equally divided between gir ls and boys. The participants completed a report after finishing their work.

Comments included: “ This year we learned a lot of new things. We had a lot of fun. It was a great experience.”

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INDIGENOUS LIFE WAYS FIRST ANNUAL YOUTH WELLNESS CAMP Indigenous Life Ways, Inc. is a newly founded nonprofit that offers indigenous-focused c h i l d r e n’s p r o g r a m s t h a t suppor t a healthy lifest y le.

Soon after summer solstice, the Chichitah (Diné lands), New Mexico-based org aniz ation held its first Youth Wellness Camp in the Zuni Mountains for youth ages 3 to 10. They planted food crops and had a h e a l t h y f o o d s w o r k s h o p, had discussions about Diné culture and the impor tance of c lean water, and created art and music. Krystal Curley, I LW ’s p r o g r a m m a n a g e r, said, “We are looking forward to collaborating with our communities. We believe that indigenous teachings are the answers to our moder n-day problems, and from those teachings we can heal together.” Badger Springs, Chichiltah, New Mexico For more information, call 505.469.7647 or email ourindigenouslifeways@gmail.com

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SHEEP IS LIFE CELEBRATION Diné College, Tsaile, Arizona CAPTIONS AND PHOTOS BY ARETTA BEGAY

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he annual weeklong Sheep Is Life Celebration takes place at Diné College in Tasile, Arizona in June. There is a Navajo-Churro sheep and wool show, loom workshops, cultural arts and traditional foods demonstrations, craft sales and more. Info: 505.406.7428, info@navajolifeway.org, www.navajolifeway.org Lambs are raised using specific protocols set by the Navajo-Churro Sheep Association in collaboration with sheep industry experts.

The Young Artist Workshop Series offers a variety of traditional and contemporary projects for children 5 to 12 years old. Projects include traditional doll making, printmaking, painting and drawing, leatherwork, beading, making dreamcatchers and more through the “Art for the Fun of It” program.

“The past will be the new new.”

Students are able to develop as Pueblo artists who produce quality art for sale at exhibitions, as well as arts and craft shows.

Many former students have gone on to create their own styles.

Oo-Oo-Nah’s Heritage Project provides opportunities and experiences in Tiwa language, art, culture and history. Students are taught to utilize traditional “life skills.”

Over the past 10 years, more than 250 have participated in this cultural immersion project, which has been endorsed by parents and grandparents. Forty to 75 youth participate each year.

Navajo - Churro sheep have been sustenance for Navajo people for centuries. The meat is flavored by medicinal herbs of the desert scrubland where the sheep graze.

Navajo weavers teach how to make hand-spun yarn.

Working with natural fibers and elements that comprise a rug loom complement the natural order of Navajo culture.

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jewelry program offers an introductory class for students 13 to 19 years old. Intermediate and advanced technique classes are offered to adults and senior citizens.

THE HERITAGE PROJECT

Navajo Churro fleece is long and lustrous, with two undercoats. It keeps w e a v i n g s w a t e r p r o o f, wicking sweat and moisture.

It is ideal for blankets, rugs and utilitarian clothing.

An elder weaving a horse cinch on a travel-size loom. Navajo designs are entirely up to the weaver’s imagination.

Some patterns are passed down within a family for generations. Weaving is a gift for those who desire to challenge one’s self and one’s patience.

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In the program, students gain foundational knowledge and skills that include: t Wisdom about life cycles, seasons, weather cycles and climate t Farming with heritage Taos Pueblo seeds, using traditional irrigation techniques; planting a garden and maintaining it through harvest; and utilizing a Pueblo waffle-style garden for water conservation t Identifying medicinal plants, edible wild greens and f ruits; cleaning, preparation, drying and storage of these plants t Learning about neighboring pueblos and tribes t Reading and language practice for comprehension and vocabulary usage— in a cultural history class, through oral history and in articles and books. t Experiences such as adobe plastering, traditional gardening, cooking and baking

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Navajo Lap Spinning classes use raw fleece and hand-carders. Once perfected, the wool can be re-spun for warping to strengthen it or kept as rovings for all types of fiber art projects.

A recent planning process by tribal members identified a community need for Oo-OoNah to expand beyond an art center to become the “Oo-Oo-Nah Cultural Center,” which will teach additional cultural and economic sustainability skills.

Oo-Oo-Nah Art Center students enjoying the completion of their art project

They envision a time when economic conditions will encourage a return to traditional skills and livelihoods, where: t The language is strong and flourishing with 95 percent of tribal members being Tiwa language speakers— essential for cultural expression. t The health of the people is restored, with no more diabetes, substance abuse or cancer. Programs include stress reduction and exercise. Earning a livelihood through traditional activities allows time for both cultural participation and quality self-care. In turn, good health brings happiness. t Taos Pueblo tribal members have returned to traditional ways by creating culturally relevant education and employment. They support themselves through agriculture in community fields and through the arts, with the pueblo once again a center of trade.

Oo-Oo-Nah includes an artist co-op and art sales at the cultural center’s gallery.

The Oo-Oo-Nah Art Center is operated with volunteer assistance and donations.

If you would like to provide some support, contact Marie Reyna at 575.779.9566. # Susan Guyette, Ph.D., is of Métis heritage (Micmac Indian/Acadian French) and a planner specializing in cultural tourism, c ult ural ce nte rs , museums and native foods. She is the author of Sustainable Cultural Tourism: Small-Scale Solutions and Planning for Balanced Development and is co-author of Zen Birding: Connect in Nature. susanguyette@nets.com

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JEMEZ PUEBLOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S FANNIE LUCERO IN â&#x20AC;&#x153;SHE SINGS TO THE STARSâ&#x20AC;?

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the casting director and had called the director and producer and said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;You have to meet this lady.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; As soon as they saw me they were curious about everything. They left, and about two or three weeks later I got a phone call and they told me I got the part!â&#x20AC;? Âł:KHQ ZH GLG KHU VFUHHQ WHVW WKH ZKROH screen lit up,â&#x20AC;? said Jennifer Corcoran, WKH ÂżOPÂśV GLUHFWRU DQG VFUHHQZULWHU Âł,W was amazing. Fannie had just an amazing presence on screen and a natural sense of timing and rhythm in the way she delivered her lines. It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like she was trying to play a part.â&#x20AC;?

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The movie is filled with images and charactersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;in particular, a flamed-out white magician who winds up at Mabelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s house looking for water. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The magician is sort of your collective neurotic white man,â&#x20AC;? said Corcoran. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The characters arrive on your doorstop, and you have to live with them. I think what was really funny is that heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wearing a black hat. A lot of Native people tell me that the Mormon people wear black hats.

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Filming a scene with Fannieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s character Mabel and the magician Corcoran. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Over the years Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve come to really respect dreams, understanding that they arrive at a certain time. You donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make them up. I had a dream about this woman, Mabel, who came to me, and she was sitting on the back porch. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time to sing the song.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; That was the beginning of it. I was given these LQVWUXFWLRQV DQG , KDG WR ÂżJXUH RXW ZKDW GRHV this mean? It all came together. It took me a long time. It was a lot of about listening to people. I was a perpetual student, and it made me feel very humbled.â&#x20AC;?

For more information on She Sings to the Stars, visit shesingstothestars.com Harlan McKosato is the director of NDN Productions, a multimedia company based in Albuquerque. He is a citizen of the Sac and Fox Nation of Oklahoma.

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Native NEWSBITEs SAFEGUARDING SACRED TRIBAL ITEMS There is a clear difference between suppor ting tr ibal ar tists or collecting artifacts ethically and legally—as opposed to dealing or exporting items that tribes have identified as essential pieces of their cultural heritage.

Earlier this year, the Pueblo of Acoma discovered that a sacred ceremonial shield that had been stolen was about Panel discussion at School for Advanced Research to be sold to the highest bidder at an co-sponsored by the Ralph T. Coe Foundation. L-R: art auction in Paris. Gov. Kurt Riley Brian Vallo of SAR's Indian Arts Research Center; notified Sen. Martin Heinrich, who Anthony Moquino, Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo; Leigh wrote a letter to Secretary of State Kuwanwisiwma, Hopi Cultural Preservation Office; John Kerry urging the U.S. State Richard Begaye, tribal liaison to the USDA; Jim Enote, Department to help repatriate the A:shiwi A:wan Museum & Heritage Center (Zuni) shield and other stolen cultural items to American Indian tribes. In that particular case, public outcry and diplomatic pressure were enough to postpone the sale. In hundreds of other cases, tribes have been unable to stop sales of their religious and cultural items in international markets.

Under federal law, it is a crime to sell these types of objects. However, penalties in the Antiquities Act and the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act are not as high as similar statutes such as the National Stolen Property Act. Prosecutions are infrequent, and there is no explicit ban on exporting such items.

Sen. Heinrich plans to introduce the Safeguard Tribal Objects of Patrimony (STOP) Act, which would double the prison time to 10 years for illegally trafficking in tribal cultural patrimony. It would also prohibit exporting these objects and would create a tribal working group to help federal agencies better understand the scope of the problem and how to solve it. The Navajo Nation’s Naa’bik’íyáti’ Committee has passed a resolution to support the act. It has also been endorsed by the Jicarilla Apache Nation, the pueblos of Acoma, Isleta, Jemez, Laguna, Nambé, Ohkay Owingeh, Santa Ana and Zuni, as well as the All Pueblo Council of Governors and the National Congress of American Indians.

Changing the hearts and minds of art collectors and dealers who are engaging in this practice is also needed. The STOP bill includes an immunity period for collectors who may have illegal items in their possession to voluntarily repatriate those items without the threat of prosecution.

NEW RIGHT OF WAY RULE FOR INDIAN LANDS IN EFFECT The U.S. Department of the Interior’s new right of way rule for Indian lands took effect in April. The new rule will increase deference to tribal decisions, preempt state taxation of on-reservation economic activity (so that tribal governments can develop their own tax bases) and prevent uncompensated “piggy-backing” of new uses on old rights of way. The new rule also fixes the Supreme Court’s controversial decision in Strate v. A-1 Contractors; going forward, tribes and tribal courts will have authority and jurisdiction over new rights of way.

Some members of industry are opposed to tribal sovereignty, but the new rule will speed decision-making and approvals, so tribes and their industry partners will see economic development projects move more swiftly. The Department of Justice has already begun to successfully defend the rule. The rule is a success for tribal sovereignty and self-governance.

HEARTH ACT AGREEMENT SUPPORTS HOME OWNERSHIP ON TRIBAL LANDS Earlier this year, Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo Gov. Earl Salazar met with U.S. Department of the Interior Acting Secretary for Indian Affairs Larry Roberts to sign an agreement that formally approves a new tribal leasing regulation that gives the pueblo greater control of leasing on tribal lands. Sandia Pueblo has also signed the agreement.

The agreement was made possible through the Helping Expedite and Advance Responsible Tribal Homeownership (HEARTH) Act, a bill sponsored by then-Rep. Martin Heinrich in 2012, which gives tribes the option of approving federal trust land leases for residential, business, renewable energy and other purposes directly through tribal regulations, rather

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than having to wait for approval from the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA).

Sen. Heinrich, who attended the signing ceremony, called the regulation change “a milestone in strengthening self-determination and tribal sovereignty that will open doors to more jobs and economic development in Indian Country.” He also said, “the agreement will make it easier for Native families to buy houses and open businesses in the communities where their families have lived for generations.”

PUEBLO OF SANTA ANA PURCHASES ALAMO RANCH Tribes have been buying back ancestral lands. The Pueblo of Santa Ana recently spent nearly $33 million to purchase the Alamo Ranch from the family of former New Mexico Gov. Bruce King. The former cattle ranch near the edge of Río Rancho borders Zia and Laguna pueblos. It was historically a part of the tribe’s migration routes and hunting grounds and is nearly equal in size to the pueblo’s present reservation.

“In traditional Santa Ana culture, land, water, life, traditions, family and cultural identity are the foundation of what makes us go,” said Santa Ana Gov. Myron Armijo. “We will keep this land in its natural state.” The pueblo will use parts of it for ceremonies and is developing a natural resources and wildlife management plan. The governor said that some non-native recreational access might be possible.

In 2013 Santa Ana Pueblo used profits from its casino to buy the 600-acre Montoya Ranch, southwest of San Ysidro.The tribe intends to apply to the U.S. Department of the Interior for other lands to be put into trust. In the past seven years, the U.S. government has placed 415,000 acres into trust for tribes, and that may expand to 500,000 acres before President Obama leaves office. Putting land into trust is a process that takes many years.

A congressional vote ultimately is required for the land to be taken by or sold to a tribe.

CULTIVATING CODERS—SXSW’S STARTUP OF THE YEAR A new Albuquerque nonprofit, Cultivating Coders, takes eight-week intensive coding bootcamps on the road for aspiring web developers in tribal, rural, inner-city neighborhoods and other underserved communities. The company has Workforce Innovation Opportunity Act certification, which allows low-income students to receive federal aid for training.

Cultivating Coders partners with local businesses to provide internships. Students give back by working on web and software projects for nonprofit organizations. The company has signed a deal with the Farmington, New Mexico-based Episcopal Church in Navajoland to train up to 45 Native American students and help the church establish a software development shop for program graduates that can provide immediate employment opportunities.

In March, the tech startup’s chief technology officer, Charles Sandidge, and the company’s president, Charles Ashley III, attended the South by Southwest interactive festival in Austin, Texas. They were there looking for large-scale partners with the same vision of helping add diversity in the technology industry by teaching coders that wouldn’t otherwise have access to the computer training. Competing against 18 others in the pitch competition, Cultivating Coders was one of two companies to take first place in the seventh annual Tech.Co SxSW Startup of the Year, and received an invitation to Tech.Co’s prestigious national startup competition. For more information, contact Ashley at cashley@cultivatingcoders.com

HELPING TRIBAL NATIONS WITH BROADBAND Low Internet connectivity and lack of broadband access can be a detriment to education, healthcare and business. New Mexico has the 10 th-worst broadband speeds in the nation. Only one-fifth of people living on tribal land in New Mexico have access to wired broadband.

AMERIND Risk Management Corp. ranks second on Albuquerque Business First’s list of largest American Indian-owned businesses. The insurance provider’s clients include the Pueblo of Acoma and the Pueblo of Santo Domingo. AMERIND Risk has launched a new line of business focused on increasing connectivity in rural areas.

The company has begun to assist tribal nations with analysis, planning, management, financing, design and execution of broadband deployment.

In March the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Utilities Service (RUS) awarded a New Mexico telecommunications company, Sacred Wind, a $13.8 million lowinterest loan to improve Internet service by extending fiber-optic cable from Gallup to the Navajo community of To’hajiilee, west of Albuquerque. The project will take three years to complete. In 2015 the RUS Telecommunications Loan Program and the Substantially Underserved Trust Land (SUTA) Program provided a $5.3 million loan to Mescalero Apache Telephone, Inc. to build a broadband communication system.

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Economic Profiles of American Indian Reservations Third Edition, BowArrow Publishing Company, 1,120 pages, $325.

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iller’s Guide to Indian Country is one of the most widely used reference books about today ’s 567 American Indian and Alaska Native tribes.

Organized geographically, the book’s meticulously researched profiles provide hard-to-find d e m o g r a ph i c a n d e c on om i c information on how tribes live and work on their 567 unique reservations.

The stories reveal entrepreneurial zeal, as well as profound cultural and economic rebirth of Indian tribes. Many tribes have lifted themselves out of poverty through use of their unique resources to develop diverse businesses, which include “green” enterprises such as solar-powered farms supplying urban areas far f rom the reservations.

Recently, the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development and Tiller Research, Inc. (veronicatiller.com) announced a collaborative partnership to support the Honoring Nations Google Map (hpaied.org/ Google).

The interactive map currently features all 124 Honoring Nations Honorees,a flagship program of the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development, and their outstanding stories/efforts in self-governance. As part of this collaboration, each of the 124 Honorees’reports will include a full tribal profile from the latest edition of Tiller’s Guide to Indian Country. ship will launch The map partnership this coming October ober and assist Honoring Nationss in identifying, celebrating and sharing tribal ess. government success.

Tiller’s Guide is an important deral and state resource for federal governments, school systems,

Native people residing in urban areas are among the most invisible populations, yet … 72 percent of all American Indian/Alaska Natives (AI/AN), and 78 percent of all AI/AN children live in cities. This invisibility perpetuates extreme disparities … for tribal citizens, including: children and family services, housing and homelessness, economic development and employment, and health and wellness (including the Corn Dance – Jemez Seasonal Dance Group justice system).

– Making the Invisible Visible; A Policy Blueprint from Urban Indian America by the National Urban Indian Family Coalition, June 2015

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TILLER’S GUIDE TO INDIAN COUNTRY:

The Santa Fe Indian Center (SFIC) was formed in 2008 by a concerned group of local Native American residents who saw a need for an organization that would be of service to all Native Americans living in Santa Fe. SFIC operates under a fiscal sponsorship of the New Mexico Community Foundation.

Through a $10,000 grant from the Buckaroo Ball Foundation plus additional individual gifts and food concessions proceeds at the Santa Fe Powwow, since 2011, 55 adults and 75 children have been assisted through a financial hardship or crisis, including rent, utilities, car repairs, educational, medical and funeral expenses. Another $2,000 has gone towards gift cards for gas, clothing and food for families in urgent need.

businesses and law firms working with tribes. Tiller’s research has been utilized in litigation resulting in judgments and settlements for tribes. Federal agencies and congressional committees have used the guide for information relevant to their deliberations.

The book represents the lifework of Dr. Veronica Velarde Tiller, a citizen of the J ic ar illa Apache Nation in New Mexico. She earned her Ph.D. in American Indian History from the University of New Mexico. In addition to tribal economies, her company, Tiller Research, Inc., has specialized in studies related to tribal water rights, energy, forestry and the environment.

The recently updated third edition is now available in e-book format, as well as in iits original hard-copy form. For more information, email vtiller99@ comcast.net or visit veronicatiller.com # veronicatiller.

In partnership with Rotary Del Sur and their Shoes for Kids program, SFIC has enabled Indian schoolchildren living below the poverty level to receive one pair of shoes and six pairs of socks.

Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundation recently contributed $1,500 in support of this initiative.

Financial support also comes from the Native American Advised Endowment Fund at Santa Fe Community Foundation.

Face painting at 2015 American Indian Community Day

Thanks to funding from the New Mexico Health Equity Partnership, SFIC is currently sponsoring a Health Impact Assessment of the urban Indian community and the ability of the Indian Health Service to meet its needs. The Santa Fe Indian Hospital serves nine pueblos but does not receive funding for members of other tribes that represent much of the Santa Fe Indian population. Results of the assessment will be available in the fall.

SFIC has hosted many gatherings and workshops such as “The Importance of Growing Your Own Garden,” “Native American Gardening Techniques” and “Leading a Healthier Lifestyle.” In association with Wings of America, SFPS Native American Student Services and Railyard Stewards, SFIC has sponsored “Laps 4 Life,” a day for health and wellness with free workshops on physical fitness and goal setting.

A MERICAN I NDIAN COMMUNITY DAY – SEPT. 17 Each year SFIC hosts “Indian Summer:American Indian Community Day in Santa Fe,” which brings the community together to socialize, participate in Games with Wings of American and Nike of Santa Fe cultural awareness, share a meal and have fun. It will be held this year on Sept. 17, 12 pm to 4 pm at Ragel Park. It is free, open to the public, and features Native American dancers and singers, stories, music, games, art, breakdancing and nonprofit booths. /Ĩ LJŽƵ ĂƌĞ ŝŶƚĞƌĞƐƚĞĚ ŝŶ ŚĞůƉŝŶŐ ƚŚĞ ĐĞŶƚĞƌ͛Ɛ ĞīŽƌƚƐ͕ ĐĂůů ϱϬϱ͘ϲϮϬ͘ϰϮϭϬ͕ ĞŵĂŝů ƐĮŶĚŝĂŶĐĞŶƚĞƌΛŐŵĂŝů͘ĐŽŵ Žƌ ǀŝƐŝƚ ǁǁǁ͘ƐĂŶƚĂĨĞŝŶĚŝĂŶĐĞŶƚĞƌ͘ŽƌŐ

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NEWSBITEs FACEBOOK CONSIDERING NEW MEXICO FOR GREEN DATA CENTER Last month, Public Service Company of New Mexico (PNM) submitted an application to the state Public Regulation Commission (PRC) seeking approval of a plan to provide 60 (and possibly more than 100) megawatts of solar power to a possible Facebook data center in New Mexico. The technology giant wants a guarantee that the facility can be 100 percent powered by solar or wind energy and seeks to have it online by mid-2017. Facebook has agreed to cover the costs of building a new renewable-energy facility and electric line to power the center, which would rely on traditional energy sources as a backup.

golf and soccer, they built the NB3FIT and Native Strong programs, working with youth, coaches and mentors to instill leadership skills, cultural values and healthy living habits. The program partners with Native-led nonprofits and tribes. The foundation now provides support for 22 organizations across the Southwest and has invested over $2.3 million in 59 communities across the country, impacting more than 25,000 children.

According to PNM’s filing, the first phase of development would require a $250 million investment, and the project has the potential to reach six phases. The filing also says that the massive data center could bring more than 200 construction jobs, would have 30 to 50 employees during the startup period and would create other economic development opportunities.

During 2012-13, Johns Hopkins University evaluated NB3 Foundation’s work at San Felipe Pueblo and noted a statistically significant decline in average body mass index (BMI), as well as improvements in self-esteem, peer leadership and knowledge about nutrition and healthy choices.

The foundation also presents a spring health education conference, golf tournaments and an end-of-the-year fundraising gala. For more information, call 505.867.0775 or visit www.nb3foundation.org

The center could be sited in Los Lunas. In June, Los Lunas Village Council approved up to $30 billion in industrial revenue bonds for a data center. Facebook is also considering locating the center in Utah.

4TH ANNUAL RESILIENCE RUN PAYS TRIBUTE TO THE 1680 PUEBLO REVOLT

A public hearing on the project before the PRC scheduled for Aug. 9 was triggered by a public comment sent to the commission by Albuquerque resident Hubert Allen. Allen has solar power on his home that is net-metered by PNM. He wants the commission to consider whether Facebook’s center could be a marketplace for excess power generated by homeowners—as opposed to homeowners giving it to PNM without compensation. Smaller solar companies have also expressed concerns that they won’t be given an opportunity to compete for the project.

NM ECO-TECH INVENTOR WINS PATENT APPROVAL WASTE GLASS AND GEO-MIMICRY STOP JET PLANES Ecopreneur Andrew Ungerleider has been awarded a U.S. patent for the invention of a non-flammable, energy-absorbing material that, when placed at the end of an airport runway, can help bring an out-of-control jet to a quick, safe halt, potentially saving lives. A third of all airplane runway accidents are the result of planes that overshoot runways upon landing.

Ungerleider, a graduate of the College of Santa Fe, is the founder of the Santa Fe-based Earthstone International and its sister company, Growstone, Inc., which manufacture abrasive cleaning products and agricultural soil amendments using recycled glass from landfills. The products are sold in major retail outlets across the country and online.

The same green technology utilizing waste glass is used to manufacture the runway arrestor system’s foamed silica bed. The “geomimicry” process inside a large kiln mimics how nature creates abrasive materials from volcanic lava.

The Federal Aviation Administration has recognized this solution. In 2015 the FAA issued a compliance order for all U.S. airports that don’t have the required amount of clearance to install arresting systems at the end of runways.

NOTAH BEGAY FOUNDATION TO INTRODUCE NB3FIT DAY NOV. 13 The Notah Begay III (NB3) Foundation will introduce NB3FIT Day on Nov. 13 as a platform of heart-pumping fun and fundraising. The goal is to actively engage 10,000 Native American youth for one hour. More than 25 community organizers have coordinated ways for youth to participate in a tournament, run, hike, bike-ride or play lacrosse. In the Albuquerque area, NB3 Foundation will host an 8k crosscountry run, as well as a mile fun-run and walk at the Santa Ana Golf Course.

According to the Indian Health Service, 45 percent of 2-to-5-year-olds are obese.

Half of Native youth born after 2000 are expected to develop type 2 diabetes. These children are also at risk for cardiovascular disease.

In 2005, former PGA golfer, Notah Begay III (Navajo, San Felipe, Isleta), along with his father and brother, started the foundation—the mission of which is to reduce the rate of childhood obesity and type 2 diabetes in Native children—by providing golf lessons. This showed them how sports can be used as a tool to teach ethics and get kids moving.Then, using

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The annual Resilience Run takes place on Aug. 6, starting at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque. It commemorates the runners who risked their lives to carry secret messages between Pueblo communities in 1680, enabling them to rise up as one and overthrow foreign occupiers. Some runners carry knotted yucca cords during the run to demonstrate pride in their heritage and a connection to the uprising.

“The Pueblo Revolt is a reminder of how Pueblo people came together despite distance to take action, to protect their way of life and sustain their very existence,” says IPCC Museum Director Monique Fragua ( Jemez Pueblo). “Marking its anniversary reminds us that we have the courage to overcome obstacles, the strength needed to continue our way of life and the determination to teach our belief systems to our children.”

The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 was North America’s first successful uprising against colonial oppression. To coordinate far-flung communities, the religious leader Popé sent runners with yucca cords whose knots secretly indicated the date of the planned uprising. The Spanish captured and tortured two of the runners, revealing the plan, but more runners quickly alerted the pueblos and they rebelled two days early on Aug. 10. The Spanish retreated to El Paso, freeing Pueblo people to practice their traditions, language and religion on their own land once again.

Pueblo Revolt commemoration runs also take place at some pueblos such as Jemez (Aug. 20) and Tesuque. For details on the IPCC run, see the calendar listing on page 46.

ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONSERVANCY FUNDRAISING TO ACQUIRE CHACO OUTLIER SITE The Archaeological Conservancy is raising funds to acquire the Holmes Group archaeological site, a significant Chaco Outlier community, in order to protect it for posterity. The site northwest of Farmington, New Mexico, is considered to be one of the largest and most complex of all the Chaco-period occupation sites. The conservancy is crowdfunding through Generosity by Indiegogo, the online non-profit fundraising platform. Its goal is to raise $25,000.

A 1984 archaeological survey identified two Great Houses, two possible Great Kivas, two cobble masonry bi-wall structures and an impressive “circular road” or “enhanced areola,” a 1,000-foot-diameter earthwork circle enclosing the center of the community. With a total of 127 surface features and structures, the Holmes Group is considered to be the most intact of all the major La Plata Valley Chaco Period occupation sites. Without protection, the site will continue to be in danger of being looted, and irreplaceable cultural material will be destroyed, according to the conservancy. The site is also in the midst of a region of ongoing oil and gas development and under constant threat of new development.

Jim Walker, the conservancy’s Southwest Regional director, stated, “Although our understanding of the complex Chaco system has expanded greatly in the last 40 years, significant questions remain. Establishing the Holmes Group as a permanent archaeological preserve could help researchers answer some of those questions.”

For more information,contactWalker at 505.266.1540 or jimwalkerabq@gmail.com.Donations can be made at www.generosity.com/fundraisers/holmes-group-archaeological-project

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What's Going On! Events / Announcements

AUG. 23–24 NM CONFERENCE ON AGING ISLETA RESORT & CONFERENCE CENTER Talks, workshops and entertainment supporting active aging. Presented by the NM Aging and Long-term Services Dept. www.nmaging.state. nm.us/2016-conference-on-aging.aspx

ALBUQUERQUE AUG. 5, EVENING; AUG. 6, 8 AM–4 PM SUMMER WINGS RIO GRANDE NATURE CENTER 2901 CANDELARIA NW 22nd annual event celebrates NM’s wildlife.

Hummingbirds, butterflies, dragonflies, bees, lizards, snakes and porcupines. Guided bilingual walk. Speakers. Free. Parking $3.

Crafts for kids. 505.344.7240, www.rgnc.org

AUG. 6 4TH ANNUAL RESILIENCE RUN INDIAN PUEBLO CULTURAL CENTER 2401 12TH ST. NW Family-friendly, community event commemorates the runners who enabled the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 and raises funds for educational programs. 10K run at 7 am.

5K at 8:30 am, kids’ 1K and walk at 9:15 am.

Free museum admission and traditional Native music and dance at 11 am and 2 pm.

Registration open online through Aug. 3 at www.resiliencerun.org or at the IPCC 30 minutes before each event.

AUG. 10, 8–10 AM PUBLIC AND PRIVATE FINANCING SANDOVAL ECONOMIC ALLIANCE 1201 RÎO RANCHO BLVD., RÍO RANCHO Educational workshop for local business owners. Light breakfast and course materials provided. Fee: $39. Peer-oriented roundtables meet every 2nd Weds. through 11/9. Presented by the SEA and the Dynamic Growth Business Resource Center.

505.238.3004, http://dgbrc.com/locations/ sandoval-economic-alliance/

AUG. 10, 9–10:30 AM AGRICULTURAL COLLABORATIVE 102 GOLD ST. SW Meeting to discuss developments in the local food system’s support services and market opportunities – from farm to kitchen to plate. Field trip to Delicious NM’s new community space with Kids Cook. Hosted by Delicious NM, Downtown ABQ MainStreet Initiative and Downtown Growers Market. localfoodnm@mrcog-nm-gov

AUG. 13, 10 AM–12 PM ABQ CITIZENS' CLIMATE LOBBY Learn about climate change solutions that bridge the partisan divide, such as a carbon fee/ dividend that gives revenue back to households.

Meets the 2nd Sat. of every month. Location: lisas.ccl@gmail.com, citizensclimatelobby. org/chapters/NM_Albuquerque/, www. facebook.com/ccl.newmexico

AUG. 19 START IGNITE ACCELERATOR CNM STEMULUS CENTER Community accelerator for early-stage and startup businesses. A 12-week program.

Personal business coaching and mentoring facilitated by entrepreneur and teacher Leslie Hoffman. http://stemuluscenter.org/ignitecommunity-accelerator/

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AUG. 30–SEPT. 1 WIND TURBINE BLADE WORKSHOP EMBASSY SUITES HOTEL Biannual workshop presented by Sandia National Laboratories Wind Energy Technologies Dept. sandia.eom@public. govdelivery.com

SEPT. 23–24 GLOBALQUERQUE NATL. HISPANIC CULTURAL CENTER 1701 4TH ST. SW 12th annual celebration of world music & culture. Performances in the Fountain Courtyard, ABQ Journal Theater and on the plaza. Global Fiesta free Saturday daytime programming, Global Village of Crafts, Culture and Cuisine. www.globalquerque.org

SATURDAYS, OPEN 8 AM DOWNTOWN GROWERS’ MARKET ROBINSON PARK, EIGHTH AND CENTRAL Local produce, live music, artisan creations, food and community. 505.252.2959, downtowngrowers.com

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

DAILY, 10 AM–6 PM WILDLIFE WEST 87 N. FRONTAGE RD., EDGEWOOD (JUST EAST OF ABQ) 122-acre park/attraction with educational programs dedicated to native wildlife and ecology. $7/$6/$4/children under 5 free. www.wildlifewest.org

DAILY OUR LAND, OUR CULTURE, OUR STORY INDIAN PUEBLO CULTURAL CENTER 2401 12TH ST. NW Historical overview of the Pueblo world and contemporary artwork and craftsmanship of each of the 19 pueblos; Weekend Native dances. 866.855.7902, www.indianpueblo.org

THROUGH 2016 LAS HUERTAS FARMING TRAINING COURSES BERNALILLO COUNTY EXT. OFFICE 1510 MENAUL NW Intro to Horticulture in Aridlands covers basics of farming in NM’s varied climate and seasons. Other classes offered include Growing Techniques, Summer Growing Season (farm visits), Business management and planning. sean@riograndefarm.org, http://riograndefarm.org/farmer-trainingfarm-incubator/

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. 1–6, ALL DAY SF COUNTY FAIR SF COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS 3229 RODEO RD. Annual event offers youth and adults an opportunity to enter their crafts, food and animals in contests. Live entertainment, food, educational opportunities. http:/ santafeextension.nmsu.edu/santa-fecounty-fair.html

AUG. 3–7, 10–14, 8 AM–5 PM HORSE SHOWS HIPICO SF, 100 S. POLO DR. Equestrian jumping, competition, 100+ artists, food, Sat. concert. Free. www.hipicosantafe.com

AUG. 3–7 TRANSFORMATION AND HEALING CONFERENCE NEW EARTH INSTITUTE OF SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGE “At the Crossroads of Human Potential” 35th annual conference. CEUs available.

Keynote by Gregg Braden. 505.471.5756, info@swc.edu, www.swc.edu

AUG. 3, 11:30–1 PM ENERGY STORAGE TALK SF AREA HOMEBUILDERS 2520-B CAM. ENTRADA

SATURDAYS THROUGH AUGUST SUMMER FAMILY FUN DAYS BACHECHI OPEN SPACE 9521 RÍO GRANDE NW

Green lunch. Presentation by Peter Page of Amenergy on the history of battery storage, where it is today and what it might look like tomorrow. $20/15. Santa Fe Green Chamber. 505.982.1774

July: Arid Adaptation – Adopt a plant while learning survival strategies for life in the desert. View the wetlands along the bosque.

August: Why is (n’t) it raining? – Explore Bachechi before and after monsoon storms and help predict the weather. Free. No registration required. 505.314.0398, bernco.gov

AUG. 4, 6–8:30 DISCOVER COMMUNITY AT ECO ECO HIGH SCHOOL, WEST ZIA RD. AT VO TECH RD.

FIRST SUNDAYS NM MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 1801 MOUNTAIN ROAD Museum admission is free to NM residents on the first Sunday of every month. 505.841.2800

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Introductory event for ECO, a public high school concentrating on sustainable trades and practices. Also presentation on Leadership Development and Workforce Readiness mentorship program. Cjpavel@me.com

AUG. 5, 10 AM–1 PM FREE LEGAL CLINICS FIRST JUDICIAL COURT 225 MONTEZUMA AVE.

For low-income New Mexicans. First Friday every other month. Attorneys provide free legal advice on civil matters only (no family or criminal law) on a first-come, firstserve basis limited to the first 25 people.

Bring relevant paperwork. NM Legal Aid’s Volunteer Attorney Program. 505.814.5033, ajab@nmlegalaid.org

AUG. 6, 9 AM–5:30 PM GREG BRADEN PROGRAM JAMES A. LITTLE THEATER 1060 CERRILLOS RD. “Human by Design: The Power to Thrive in Life’s Extremes” In conjunction with Southwestern College’s Transformation and Healing Conference. Info/cost: 505.471.5756, info@swc.edu, www.swc.edu

AUG. 6, 10 AM–4 PM ANNUAL ART SHOW BENEFIT KINDRED SPIRITS ANIMAL SANCTUARY 3749–A HWY. 14 Art sale amidst barns benefits sanctuary for senior dogs, horses and poultry. Educational talks and demos by wellness caregivers.

505.471.5366, kindredspiritsnm@earthlink. net, www.kindredspiritsnm.org

AUG. 8, 6 PM DAVID GRANT NOBLE HOTEL SANTA FE Lecture on Ute history by the archaeological writer/photographer. $12. southwestseminar@ aol.com, SouthwestSeminars.org

AUG. 11, 10 AM MAYOR GONZALES ON THE VERDE FUND SF CONVENTION CENTER Presentation/public forum hosted by the League of Women Voters. Topics may include: SF’s transition to renewable energy, retrofitting buildings for energy efficiency, cost/funding, poverty, jobs.

AUG. 13, 10 AM–12 PM SF CITIZENS' CLIMATE LOBBY LA MONTANITA CO-OP COMMUNITY RM., 913 W. ALAMEDA Learn about climate change solutions that bridge the partisan divide such as the carbon fee/dividend, which gives revenue back to households. www.facebook.com/ccl.newmexico

AUG. 14, 2 PM SANTA FE CONCERT BAND FEDERAL BUILDING Historical summer concer t.

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AUG. 17, 6–7:30 PM NM SOLAR ENERGY ASSN. MEETING AMENERGY OFFICE, 1202 PARKWAY DR. Meets 3rd Weds. every month. The mission of the SF Sustainable Everything Advocates, a NMSEA Chapter, is to make living sustainably the accepted norm. Claudia@solarlogicllc. com, www.nmsolar.org/Pages/Santa-Fe.aspx

AUG. 19, 10 AM NM ACEQUIA COMMISSION MTG. BATAAN MEMORIAL BLDG., ROOM 238, CORNER DON GASPAR AND SO. CAPITOL Agendas: 505.603.2879, Info: molinodelaisla@gmail. com, www.nmacequiacommission.state.nm.us

AUG. 26–28 STARTUP WEEKEND SANTA FE SF BUSINESS INCUBATOR 3900 PASEO DEL SOL Entrepreneurial event where ideas are

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pitched, teams formed, markets validated and startups started. Details: 505.424.1140, www.sfbi.net

SEPT. 10, 12–5 PM FIESTA SUSTAINABILITY SHOWCASE SCOTTISH RITE CENTER, PASEO DE PERALTA & WASHINGTON ST. Vendors will offer info on sustainable energy and transportation, healthy food and home products, local financing and banking. Hands-on demos. Followed by benefit concert from 6:30–10 pm with the Motown Review featuring Terry Diers.

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SEPT. 15–18 INTL. LANDSCAPE DESIGN CONFERENCE HOTEL SANTA FE “The Art of Adaptive Design.” Presented by the Association of Professional Landscape Designers. www.apld.org/events

SEPT. 16–18, 10 AM–5 PM POJOAQUE RIVER ART TOUR POJOAQUE VALLEY, NORTH OF SF Works from Native American, Spanish and Anglo artists including George Toya of Jemez Pueblo. 29 artists at 17 locations.

Paintings, sculptures, pottery, jewelry, fiber arts, photography and more. Visit artist studios and community space in El Rancho.

Opening reception/silent auction at Than Povi Trading Post at San Ildefonso Pueblo on 9/16, 5–7 pm. Auction continues throughout the weekend. Tour maps available. www. pojoaqueriverarttour.com

OCT. 27–28 LLOYD KIVA NEW CENTENNIAL CONVOCATION INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN INDIAN ARTS An interdisciplinary look at the contemporary Native art movement in honor of the 100th anniversary of the birth of the Cherokee artist and educator. A collaboration with the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture.

505.424.2376, swall@iaia.edu

NOV. 16–20 2016 BIODYNAMIC CONFERENCE SF CONVENTION CENTER Tierra Viva: Farming the Living Earth.

Over 50 workshops, 10 keynote speakers, field trips, food, exhibits. 262.649.9212, ext.

2, biodynamics.com/conference

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

1ST AND 3RD TUESDAYS, 5:30-7 PM DESIGN LAB FOR SUSTAINABLE NEIGHBORHOODS HIGHER EDUCATION CENTER 1950 SIRINGO RD., RM. 139 Affordable living in SF? Join in to design and build mixed-use Santa Fe infill. Topics examples: Flexible 350 micro-units, clusters with shared facilities, cooperative ownership. Info/RSVP: http:// bit.ly/1ibd3LN

TUES. THROUGH SEPT., 3–6 PM SOUTHSIDE FARMERS’ MARKET SF PLACE, 4250 CERRILLOS RD. Corner of the mall near Applebee's.

TUES. & SATS., 7 AM-1 PM WEDS., 4-8 PM SF FARMERS’ MARKET 1607 PASEO DE PERALTA (& GUADALUPE)

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Northern NM farmers & ranchers offer fresh greenhouse tomatoes, greens, root veggies, cheese, teas, herbs, spices, honey, baked goods, body care products and much more. www.santafefarmersmarket.com

SUNDAYS, 11 AM JOURNEY SANTA FE CONVERSATIONS COLLECTED WORKS, 202 GALISTEO

productive while protecting wetland resources. Speakers’ presentations and time in the field. RSVP: 575.758.3874, rconn@ amigosbravos.org

THIRD WEDS. MONTHLY TAOS ENTREPRENEURIAL NETWORK TAOS COUNTY COURTHOUSE MURAL ROOM, TAOS PLAZA

8/7: SF Police Chief Pat Gallagher on the state of law enforcement in SF; 8/14: Former NM Land Commissioner Ray Powell on “Our Land–Our Legacy, public lands; 8/21: SF City Councilor Joe Maestas on Restoring Trust and Confidence in Government; 8/21: Professor Sharman Apt Russell on “How Citizen Science Segues into Environmental Activism with the NM Wilderness Alliance.

Moderators: Alan Webber, Bill and Ellen Dupuy. Free. www.journeysantafe.com

Networking, presentations and discussion. Free.

THROUGH DEC. 30 A NEW CENTURY: THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF LLOYD KIVA NEW MUSEUM OF INDIAN ARTS AND CULTURE, 710 CAM. LEJO

AUG. 4, 5:30–7 PM GREEN DRINKS LITTLE TOAD PUB BACKROOM

Fashion designs, art, archival documents. indianartsandculture.org

photos and 505.476.1269,

THROUGH MARCH 5, 2017 LOWRIDERS, HOPPERS AND HOT RODS NM HISTORY MUSEUM, 113 LINCOLN AVE.

ONGOING HOLY CROSS HOSPITAL HEALTH SUPPORT HCH COMMUNITY WELLNESS CENTER (LOWER ENTRANCE), 1397 WEIMER RD. 575.751.8909, mariam@taoshospital.com, TaosHealth.com

HERE & THERE Silver City, NM Monthly meeting of the SW NM Green Chamber of Commerce and the NM Solar Energy Assn. Silver City Chapter.

575.538.1337, SCGreenChamber@gmail.com

AUG. 6 PLACES WITH A PAST LAS VEGAS, NM

Car Culture of Northern NM. 505.476.5019, www.nmhistorymuseum.org

Tour of historic homes and buildings will focus on filmmaking in the area.

505.425.8803, lvchp.org

SANTA FE CREATIVE TOURISM WORKSHOPS, CLASSES AND EXPERIENCES

AUG. 6–7 HONEYBEES HONEYBEE SANCTUARY, CLEVELAND, NM

http://santafecreativetourism.org/

Biodynamic apiculture event presented by Michael Thiele.The ecological and regenerative dimensions of honeybees. Accommodations/ camping available.

575.387.5907, www.dancingsophiabees.com

BORROW A KILL-A-WATT DEVICE MAIN LIBRARY AND SOUTHSIDE BRANCH Electricity Measuring Devices may be checked out for 28 days www.santafelibrary. org or call any reference desk.

SANTA FE RECYCLING Make 2016 the year to reduce, reuse and recycle as much as you can. City residential curbside customers can recycle at no additional cost and drop by 1142 Siler Road, Building A to pick up free recycling bins.

For more information, visit http://www. santafenm.gov/trash_and_recycling or call 505.955.2200 (city); 505.992.3010 (county); 505.424.1850 (SF Solid Waste Management Agency).

SUSTAINABLE GROWTH MGMT. PLAN FOR SANTA FE 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 THROUGH SEPT. 11 MABEL DODGE LUHAN & COMPANY HARWOOD MUSEUM OF ART 238 LEDOUX ST. “American Moderns and the West,” an exhibit detailing Luhan’s impact on the art, writings and activism of 20th-century modernists Dorothy Brett, D.H. Lawrence, Marsden Hartley and others. Closed Mondays.

575.758.9826, Harwoodmuseum.org

SEPT. 24, 10 AM–1:30 PM WETLANDS AND PRIVATE LANDS WORKSHOP TAOS LAND TRUST PROPERTY Learn how to make your rangeland more

people to empower young people. Camping beneath the ponderosa pines. http:// upliftclimate.org/register/

AUG. 19–21 ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION PROJECT CARSON NATL. FOREST NEAR QUESTA, NM Volunteers needed to repair fences to protect wildlife habitat. Organized by ABQ Wildlife Federation and Amigos Bravos. rioscial@ gmail.com, http://abq.nmwildlife.org

AUG. 19–SEPT. 3 MUSIC FROM ANGEL FIRE SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL ANGEL FIRE, LAS VEGAS, RATON, TAOS, NM Intl. musicians play chamber music.

575.377.3223, musicfromangelfire.org

AUG. 20 PUEBLO INDEPENDENCE DAY CELEBRATION JEMEZ HISTORIC SITE, RTE. 4 575.829.3530, nmhistoricsites.org

AUG. 25, 6:30–8 PM HEALTH IMPACTS OF OIL & GAS IN THE FOUR CORNERS STEP BACK INN, 123 W. AZTEC BLVD., AZTEC, NM Presentations include “Threat Map” interactive tool that maps populations and schools at risk. 505.301.0863, riogrande. chapter@sierraclub.org

SEPT. 8–11 EARTH WALKS CANYON DE CHELLY, AZ Camping, service work on family farm in the canyon, solitude at Spider Rock, sweat lodge ceremony. http://earthwalks.org

AUG. 10, (5 PM APPLICATION DEADLINE) FOOD SOVEREIGNTY ASSESSMENT GRANTS

SEPT. 12–14 AMERICAN INDIAN TOURISM CONFERENCE TULALIP RESORT CASINO, TULALIP, WASHINGTON

Proposals accepted from Native communities looking to gain better understanding about historical, current and future state of their local food systems. www.firstnations.org/ grantmaking/2016NoVoFSA

OCT. 7 FINAL DAY TO ORDER TREE SEEDLING SALE

Aug. 10–14

INTER-TRIBAL INDIAN CEREMONIAL RED ROCK STATE PARK, GALLUP, NM Dancers, artisans, musicians, vendors and families from tribes across the U.S. and Mexico gather for celebration and communion.

505.863.3896, gallupceremonial.com

AUG. 12 CROWNPOINT NAVAJO RUG AUCTION CROWNPOINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, NM Hundreds of handmade rugs will be auctioned.

505.362.8502, crownpointrugauction.com

AUG. 14–19, 9 AM–5 PM NATURAL BUILDING WORKSHOP BLACK RANGE LODGE, KINGSTON, NM Get hands-on experience with straw bale, cob and earth bag construction.

Work with earthen and lime plasters.

Also learn about rainwater harvesting, greywater systems, solar hot water and cooking. $395/wk, $95/day. 575.895.5652, mail@builderswithoutborders.org, www. blackrangelodge.com

Presented by American Indian Alaska Native Tourism Association.

Seedlings available to people who own at least one acre of land in NM who agree to use the trees for conservation purposes.

Distribution begins Sept. 13 and ends Oct. 14. NM State Forestry Div. 505.476.3353, www.nmforestry.com

WEDS. THROUGH OCT. 31, 10 AM–4 PM POJOAQUE PUEBLO FARMERS & CRAFTS MARKET POEH CENTER PLAZA, 78 CITIES OF GOLD RD. WEDNESDAYS, 10 AM GREEN HOUR HIKES LOS ALAMOS NATURE CENTER, LOS ALAMOS, NM Kid-centered hikes. Free. Losalamosnature.org

WEDS., 6-8 PM GALLUP SOLAR COMMUNITY MEETINGS 113 E. LOGAN AVE., GALLUP, NM The nonprofit Gallup Solar hosts educational presentations and potential solutions for all things solar. Questions, ideas and expertise are welcome. 505.728.9246, gallupsolar@ gmail.com, www.gallupsolar.org

AUG. 18–20 UPLIFT CLIMATE CONFERENCE NEAR DURANGO, CO. Join the sustainable climate action community. Hear diverse voices from across the Colorado Plateau. Organized by young

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