2025 True Heroes: Matthew DeGumbia
IN THE SHADOW of El Morro National Monument, where soft Zuni sandstone cliffs rise against the New Mexico sky, a small hub of mutual aid quietly sustains a community of aging artists and homesteaders…
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2025 True Heroes: Violet Lucero
THE CEDAR BEAMS of Violet Lucero’s loom stretch across a room that should be too small to hold it. Tools handmade by her father and bundles of wool yarn rest nearby. At the heart of this world of…
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2025 True Heroes: Shel Neymark
EVERY DAY IS DIFFERENT at the front desk of the Embudo Valley Library and Community Center, in Dixon. Volunteers like Shel Neymark help the local mayordomo book the community room for an acequia…
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Shelly Lowe Leads IAIA into a New Era
S HELLY C. LOWE glows with excitement from her seat as the new president of the nation’s most influential institution for Indigenous arts and higher education. A citizen of the Navajo Nation from…
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Burger Kings of Magdalena
NOT MUCH CHANGES in Magdalena. So people took note when Tumbleweeds Diner, with its colorful storefront mural, opened on US 60 in March 2021. The owners, Osiris Navarro and Michal Gola, had come from…
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2024 True Heroes: Loren Anthony
EARLY LAST WINTER, the fresh snowfall was melting, mixing with the red earth and caliche to become a thick, treacherous mud. The air was bitter cold in the way it gets around Gallup, where…
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Star Wars Meets Indigenous Art
A DINÉ WOMAN wields a lightsaber on a black and turquoise T-shirt by Reclaim Designs. She is powerful, elegant, and a little intimidating, not unlike the Indigenous matriarchs she represents. Another…
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Barelas Is for the Gente
A CALICO CAT LOUNGES ON THE PATIO in front of La Mexicana Tortilla Co. Cleo and her two cohorts are street cats in their golden years that the crew of the historic Albuquerque establishment treat with…
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Native Designers Redefine Western Chic
CHIZHII BY CARRIE WOOD. “Western wear is definitely something I associate with my identity as a Native person, as a Navajo person, because that’s what everyone wears,” says designer Carrie Wood, who…
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Dante Biss-Grayson Shows His Range
THERE’S NO SHORTAGE of color and flare in Taos-based Dante Biss-Grayson’s latest collection: Sky-Eagle Mens Ranch Wear. The Osage designer’s Ace High II Western-cut shirts are designed with pearl…
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