Keeping New Mexico’s Pueblo Culture Alive

The Phillips family always loved their annual summer trip to Santa Fe from their California home in the 1950s and ’60s. In the Hopi land of northern Arizona, Gifford and Joann Phillips would buy large katsinas from artists at roadside stands, while their daughter, Marjorie, would spend $5 on small katsinas. By the time they got to northern New Mexico, they were among the Pueblo people. The parents struck up a friendship with their neighbor, Alfonso Ortiz, an Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo native