San Ildefonso Pueblo, north of Santa Fe off Highway 502, stands in quiet simplicity beside the Rio Grande at the foot of stately Black Mesa as it has since 1300 A.D. The natives of this pueblo migrated from the Mesa Verde area to the rugged and beautiful canyon of Bandelier on the mesa above Los Read More
Tiwa… Keeping Language Alive –
Tiwa is not a written language – and out of respect, many speakers don’t wish to provide written translations. Other traditions may differ from that of Taos Pueblo, which speaks northern Tiwa, as does Picuris The white stuff falling softly from the sky is the world’s most beautiful sight, no matter what you call it. “Nieve” I recall, in Read More
Oh, When The Saints –
Carving a place in history – Whether celebrating the beneficence of San Francisco (St. Francis), petitioning San Ysidro for rain during a drought (St. Isidore), or honoring the virtues of Guadalupe, saints have been and remain an essential part of the spiritual and cultural fabric of Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado. When Spanish settlers Read More
Disney shoots Lone Ranger –
Our fascination with movies begins when we are young, and for most never completely disappears. They transport us, they awe us, they inspire us and they linger somewhere in our subconscious, much after the final credits have faded. With the dramatic landscapes and seemingly unending abundance of light and sky, filmmakers have flocked to New Read More
Route 66 to Taos – Poet Ronald Chavez
Natural debe ser / Listo para ser alma dulce / Listo para ser humanaterio y atento / Fundado / Solamente en aquel / Mistico mundo ingravido / Donde lo mas grande posible / Se decubri en abundar* — from Fuera de Oscura Roads sometimes lead where you least expect them to. Even if on a Read More
Tale-spinning in the high desert
In the beginning was the word “Who is the storyteller? Of whom is the story told? What is there in the darkness to imagine into being? What is there to dream and to relate? What happens when I or anyone exerts the force of language upon the unknown? … If there is any absolute assumption Read More
Mountain Remedies
“Señor San Juan…started back when he saw me, lifted up his hands with a stare of terror and surprise, and uttered the ejaculation, Adios! In two minutes, he had half a bushel of onions in the ashes, and as soon as they were roasted, he swathed my feet up with a parcel of them. I Read More
Shooting From The Sky – Chris Dahl-Bredine
Who among us as earthbound animals hasn’t dreamed of sprouting wings and launching into the sky, free to soar over the planet? Lofty dreams few of us ever get to live. / For Chris Dahl-Bredine, that pilot spirit started as a young boy in Silver City, NM, where he dreamed night and day of flying. “I Read More
A few of the many Remarkable Women of Taos –
First of Their Kind – The year-long celebration of the Remarkable Women of Taos and Northern New Mexico honors the area’s outstanding historic and contemporary women and focuses in part on their passions and accomplishments. Out of hundreds of remarkable women, this representative selection profiles Mabel Dodge Luhan, Millicent Rogers, Cleofas Jaramillo and Virginia T. Romero, Read More