Tomasita Duran could not believe what was right before her eyes. On that day in 2004, the director of the housing authority saw something special about her hometown—one of the oldest native pueblos in the United States, the 800-year-old village then known as San Juan Pueblo. “I’m looking around,” she says, “and I realized, ‘Oh my God, this is the next project.’” Little did she know that over the next dozen years, she would strengthen the cultural bond of the Tewa community, lev


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