Spend a Weekend in Gallup
FROM THE SKY at last year’s Red Rock Balloon Rally, the contours of Gallup make a stunning kind of sense. When it’s rising over the city’s eastern side just past dawn, a hot-air balloon turns out to…
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A Look at Policarpio Valencia's Textiles
ON A QUILT THAT’S NEARLY A CENTURY old, a line of embroidery by Policarpio Valencia captures what makes the wordplay-loving textile artist an enigma of his time (1853–1931). Not even the lion is the…
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What We’re Reading: Johnny Geronimo: Art of Darkness
IN SANTA FE, someone has murdered an art collector, and now they’re moving on to Native artists. The police have called in a private eye: Think Philip Marlowe, but make him Apache. Eagle Eye…
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A Ghost Town with Spirit
CRESTA TERRELL HAS A REQUEST. The proprietor of the Old Kelly Store does not want this story to begin with a description of the road to Mogollón, as so many tend to. Instead, let’s reflect on what a…
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Weaving Stories at the Crownpoint Rug Auction
DELBERT AUTRY POINTS TO A potential buyer from the stage at the Crownpoint Navajo Rug Auction. A young man in the crowd just bid $1,200 for a dazzling three-by-five-foot Storm Pattern weaving, but…
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What We’re Reading: The Kármán Line
T HE KÁRMÁN LINE (Rescue Press), the title of Daisy Atterbury’s breathtaking, genre-blurring memoir in poetry and prose, refers to the threshold between Earth and outer space. “Above the Kármán line,”…
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Sangre Joven Keeps Norteño Music Alive
I F YOU’VE CAUGHT Sangre Joven rocking a hometown show at Plaza Park in the center of Las Vegas, you probably understand why the longtime band titled their latest release El Orgullo de Las Vegas (The…
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Delbert Anderson Traces His Musical Roots
“THIS IS VERY LIKELY only the second time a Diné trumpeter has performed this piece,” Delbert Anderson tells a hushed audience from the stage at El Morro Theatre, in Gallup, earlier this year. Then he…
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Join the Navajo Tea Party
A HOT-PINK COLD-DRINK oasis flowers among the wafting scents of roasted corn and frybread at the northwest corner of the Gallup Flea Market. Among the 500-plus vendors of jewelry, crafts, antiques…
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Meet the Pack at Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary
ABOUT 15 MINUTES into a walk around North America’s largest canid sanctuary, the wolves and wolfdogs begin a low, collective singing. The pack howl thrums with wildness, churning out hypnotic minor…
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