By Byron Aspaas Santa Fe, NM ”“ Abra Ann Nungasak Stolte-Patkotak is of mixed heritage””Inupiaq and white. She is an Indigneous Liberal Studies major at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA), and since arriving at school, Stolte-Patkotak has struggled with health issues. “Everyone thought I was so mean and angry the first semester...Read More
By Warren Giago Santa Fe, NM – One of the sacred sites to the Great Sioux Nation will be offered up for sale on November 30th. The site is Bear Butte, or Pe’Sla in Lakota, and it is situated in the Southwestern corner of the state of South Dakota in Black Hills National Forest. It...Read More
By Monty Little Santa Fe, NM ”“ In the City Different, fine art is pivotal to its culture; moreover, galleries across the city use art’s nature as a tourist grabber. Santa Fe was built and thrives on art, but there is another side of art slowly emerging around the city. It’s mysteriously creative, often engaging...Read More
I. Byron Aspaas Sitting within a patrol unit is a decorated young man. In a custom-fitted outfit made of navy-blue material, the young man’s top torso is decorated with off-colored patches, a shiny shield, and a belt ornamented with different gadgets. His name is Justin Apadoca. He stands near 6’0”, slim, clean shaven, and...Read More
Standing in the middle of the “dance circle,” where the school’s annual powwow takes place (officially referred to as the “central plaza”), you can look in almost any direction and glimpse the various buildings that the past few years of development have garnered for the school. These buildings are painted in various earth tones””burnt orange...Read More
How many times have you walked though the plaza, strolled right by the obelisk””the tall pointy monument on the same side as Haagen-Dazs””and never once stopped to consider why it was there or what it said? When the artist and political activist Charlene Teters saw the obelisk, she not only noticed it, she saw it...Read More
What is jewelry? What can it be? Brian Fleetwood’s jewelry is alive. Fleetwood sits at a work desk, bent over a piece of metal. The metal glints in the setting sun that streams through the high windows in the jewelry studio, a yellow light that finds the dust motes suspended in the air on these...Read More
