The Many Faces of Malinche
AN INNOCENT CHILD, she wears a First Communion dress while performing with the Matachines dancers. Around the corner, she transforms into Eve, the progenitor of a new race of people. No, wait, she is…
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Tag: Native Arts
Five Things To Do This Weekend
1 Decide for yourself. Malinche, as she is known to history, was a central figure during the Spanish conquest of Mexico from 1519 to 1521. An Indigenous woman, Malinche spoke Nahuatl and Maya, skills…
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This Fashion Designer Is Back 4 Good
TEARS RISE IN AMY DENET DEAL'S EYES when she talks about the first time she entered a room full of people who looked like her—a moment when she felt like she was home. As a Diné person raised off Diné…
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Nani Chacon Hits It Big at SITE Santa Fe
SOME OF THE ARTWORKS SIT BEHIND museum glass or gallery doors, but murals demand to be noticed. Whether designed for a local business, to commemorate an event, or to tell a story, murals often explore…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Seize your inheritance. Casa San Ysidro, in Corrales, celebrates Heritage Day on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. with traditional music, art, dance, and food. A collaboration with the Corrales…
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Native Speaker
DURING TIMES OF SOCIAL DISRUPTION, POETS THRIVE. Their ethereal language unravels the incomprehensible and weaves it into something more of us can understand. It was during such a time, in 2019, that…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Visit America’s biggest powwow. When the Gathering of Nations opens its doors on Friday morning at Albuquerque’s Expo New Mexico, many of North America’s 574 tribes will have members there. In its…
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Back to the Indigenous Future
FIRED BY TEMPERATURES of more than 2,000 degrees, a warrior emerges from a monolithic portal adorned with Indigenous symbols. A blood-red bust faces the courtyard of the Inn and Spa at Loretto…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Celebrate Burque’s birthday For 316, Albuquerque, you’re lookin’ good. Celebrate the Duke City’s founding in 1706 Saturday from noon to 4 p.m. in Old Town with live music by Mariachi Tenampa…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Feel better. The Spirit Coalescent , an Indigenous art project, combines music, art, dance, and poetry at the Farmington Civic Center on Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. The Delbert Anderson Trio…
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