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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Chip Thomas Honors the People with Art
SOMETIME AROUND 2012, Chip Thomas, a family physician with a practice on the Navajo Nation, began seeing an uptick in certain health issues in Indigenous men in their seventies and eighties who had…
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Venture into the Bisti Badlands
THE WIND BLOWS my tour guide’s long hair out of his face as we walk. Gilbert Tsinnajinnie’s dark curls fly toward the wide brim of his hat, which is tan and banded with white and red like the rock…
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What We're Reading: Lost Birds
AT THE OUTSET of Lost Birds (Harper), Anne Hillerman’s gripping ninth novel in the Leaphorn, Chee, and Manuelito series, a man rings up retired detective-turned-private-eye Joe Leaphorn for help. As…
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Delbert Anderson's Musical Journey Home
THE SUN IS ALMOST set as Delbert Anderson returns to the town of Kirtland, near the San Juan River in northwest New Mexico. Returning from a teaching residency at the California Institute of the Arts…
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The Indigenous Taco's Origin Story
EVERY NEW MEXICAN KNOWS OF FRYBREAD. Its duality is novel: sweet and salty flavors, soft and crispy textures that melt on the tongue and get chewy between the teeth. It is a female food—supple, warm…
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Josh Fournier is a Stand-up Dude
AFTER THE STRIP CLUB he was managing burned down, Josh Fournier found himself at a crossroads in his mid-20s. He had been working on his stand-up comedy—with jokes focused on club life and his tough…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Have a classically cool time. Classic car lovers take over downtown Artesia during the 25th annual Main Event Car Show and Cruise. It kicks off Friday at the Bulldog Bowl when a parade of cool…
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Dissonance in the Desert
COMPOSER RAVEN CHACON TRACES coordinates in the air above the dining table of his Albuquerque bungalow. He triangulates the house his father built in Corrales in the early 1970s; the Navajo Nation of…
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The Story Behind the Magic Mural
ELLIS TANNER WANTED TO INSPIRE the generations of Navajo youth who have been coming into his Gallup store since it opened in 1967. “I wanted to put positive role models around my entire trading…
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