What We're Doing This Weekend
With Independence Day happening midweek, this whole week is one big weekend. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t plenty to get out and see and do—that is if you can resist the call of the grill, of…
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Tag: Native Arts
Tracing the History of the State Through Jewelry
Above: Ousmane Macina’s woven-silver choker with gold and gems. Photograph Courtesy Albuquerque Museum. FROM SPANISH AND MEXICAN SILVERSMITHS to Navajo and Zuni jewelry makers, New Mexico has gained a…
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High Fashion, Higher Good
Above: Check out these beautifully beaded bracelets, and more like them, from Etkie in Albuquerque. A HIGHWAY EXIT AND LITTLE ELSE mark the community of To’hajiilee, a checkerboard outpost of the…
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Zombie Powwow | Go. See. Do. | November 2017
Above: Dezbah Evans in costume at last year's Indigenous Comic Con as Rey from the Star Wars series. Photography by Gabriela Campos. Zombies have seized popular culture, from The Simpsons to an undead…
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Master Pieces
Above: Front row, from left: Pottery by Richard Zane Smith, Nathan Youngblood, Nancy Youngblood, and Tammy Garcia. Back row, from left: Autumn Borts-Medlock, LuAnn Tafoya, and a Les Namingha/Susan…
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Stories in Stone
Hayes Leekya's bear fetish, Enrike Leekya's elk, Sara Leekya's white fox, and Delvin Leekya's frog on display at Keshi, the Zuni Connection in Santa Fe. Photography by Inga Hendrickson. EVERY FETISH…
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Go. See. Do. | May 2017
Above: The Liberators perform gunfight reenactments at Rawhide Days. Photography by Connie Loveland Photography BEAR WITH US Smokey never sleeps. For 70 years, he’s educated Americans about the…
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Moccasins on the Move
Above: Jaylyn Atsye (center) with two fans during 2015's Rock Your Mocs event at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center . PHOTOGRAPHY BY: COURTESY INDIAN PUEBLO CULUTRAL CENTER The first pair of moccasins…
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Photographer Will Wilson’s portraits startle the eye not just because they are so handsome, but because they strongly— and self-consciously—recall ethnographer Edward S. Curtis’s staged…
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A Modern Revolution
YET FOR ALL HIS FAME and commercial success, the Cherokee farm boy from Oklahoma never forgot where he came from, and when it came time to take the next big step, he said, in the Arizona Republic, “My…
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