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...
Keeping New Mexico’s Pueblo Culture Alive
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Old West Saviors
Cuchillo Crusader
A family of wild turkeys is to thank for Josh Bond and his heroic efforts to save an abandoned town almost everyone has overlooked. It was 14 years...
Rock ‘n’ Roll Pony Express?
You wouldn’t think that movie director Peter Bogdanovich and rock star Tom Petty would inspire a documentary film on the Pony Express of the 1860s,...
The Seeds of Navajo Soul
“Tears” from the album Spirit of a Woman by Radmilla Cody / Courtesy Canyon Records License #2010-067. All rights reserved. Visit Canyon Records to...
A Crotchety Cowboy Mentor
Some 30,000 pictures ago, Gil Gustavsen and Cheryl Stapleton thought they were going in a totally different direction. Both transplants to Arizona,...
One Basket at a Time
Julia Parker discovered her talent and passion for weaving from an unexpected source. When Julia Parker was first approached to demonstrate native...
One Basket at a Time
Julia Parker discovered her talent and passion for weaving from an unexpected source. When Julia Parker was first approached to demonstrate native...
The Invisible Indian Tribe
Few people have ever heard of the Piro-Manso-Tiwa tribe that is scattered around Las Cruces, New Mexico. In fact, the tribe isn’t even a...
Depression-Era Treasure
In Phoenix, which means rebirth, the realization that history could be found deep beneath the Arizona dirt came when what is now America’s fifth...
Digging Up San Jacinto
All that’s left now is an old cistern sitting in a pasture where cows graze-a tree growing out of it, standing as the only sentinel to this place...
Sacred Ground
Ernest Marquez can remember back eight decades of joyfully playing in his family’s cemetery. “I remember looking at the old wooden statue of San...
The “New” Old Ancestors
For almost 80 years, archaeologists were pretty sure how and when the first humans came to the New World. A 1932 excavation of a prehistoric village...