True Heroes 2021: Bonnie Leno
Above: Bonnie Leno has taught more than 125 students to speak Keres in the past 10 years at the Acoma Learning Center & Library. Photograph by Gabriella Marks. BONNIE LENO KNOWS ACOMA PUEBLO'S…
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True Heroes 2021: Hiddekel Sara Burks
Above: Hiddekel Sara Burks sits inside the New Mexico Holocaust Museum and Gellert Center for Education crafting a coiled, multicolored braid that’s more than 4,000 feet long and growing. Photograph…
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True Heroes 2021: Doyle Frasier
Above: Doyle Frasier runs Ministry of Hope, which offers a food pantry and distributes donated clothing and other goods. Photograph by Gabriella Marks. DOYLE FRASIER COULD HAVE RETIRED years ago…
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True Heroes 2021: Bianca Encinias
Above: Bianca Encinias has made El Chante into a community space, boutique, and much more. Photograph by Gabriella Marks. BIANCA ENCINIAS SITS ON A BLACK LEATHER COUCH in the art gallery of El Chante:…
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2021 True Heroes
Bianca Encinias With El Chante, the Albuquerque native has created a nurturing space for female artists, entrepreneurs, and their families. Doyle Frasier At 87, the retired businessman works hard…
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Native Dances Return to the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center
Jemez Pueblo’s Oak Canyon Dancers perform in the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center courtyard. Photograph courtesy of Indian Pueblo Cultural Center. THE SCENT OF BAKING BREAD wafts across the courtyard of…
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In This Haunting Novel, A Family Reckons with Loss and Injustice
Brandon Hobson's The Removed debuted in February. Photographs courtesy of Ecco and Brandon Hobson. BRANDON HOBSON'S NOVELS ARE GUIDED BY the Cherokee legends his mother and granny told him, by themes…
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True Heroes: Elena Higgins and Tash Terry
Elena Higgins (left) and Tash Terry (right) jam out in their studio. Photograph by Gabriella Marks. TASH TERRY AND ELENA HIGGINS didn’t make a conscious decision to help the people of Black Mesa, on…
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Running to Make Great Strides
Wings of America runners hit the trail at Rinconada Canyon, on Albuquerque’s west side. "GOOD MORNING, CREATOR." The voice of Dustin Martin, executive director of Wings of America, rises over his…
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The Lifeblood
Above: Louie Hena, a guide for 40 years, calls the river his church. Photographs by Inga Hendrickson. LOUIE HENA SITS AT THE HELM of our Native Cultures Feast and Float excursion as it drifts a long…
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