BY SERGIO RIVERA There is a diversity of students on the IAIA campus ranging from international student to Native and non-Natives. According to the Admissions, Enrollment and Recruitment office, 42 freshmen and 24 transfer students started this fall. A total of 344 students are enrolled. Eighty-three federal tribes are represented. Four students are from...Read More
BY COLLESTIPHER D. CHATTO It’s hard to believe now, but noted Antiguan-American writer, Jamaica Kincaid, once feared she would fail at writing. Kincaid was in Santa Fe on Oct. 16 for a reading at the Lensic Performing Arts Center as part of the Lannan Reading and Conversation series.Read More
By JAMES THOMAS STEVENS This fall semester, I took a sabbatical to work on a long poem, a poetic rewrite of a 1926 grammar book, but sitting at a desk every single day proves not very inspirational to a poet. Part of a poet’s work is simply experiencing. Read More
by CHRISTINA CASTRO Back story: My mom was born on the pueblo here in New Mexico with the assistance of a traditional midwife. The plan was for my grandmother to birth at the Indian hospital in Albuquerque, but as she could tell the baby was coming, they knew they weren’t going to make the hour...Read More
BY COLLESTIPHER D. CHATTO NativeOUT, a website for the gay community, is coordinated by IAIA students, Terra Mathews-Hartwell (Tsimshian/Carrier) and Louva Hartwell (Diné). Louva is the website’s director and her wife, Terra, is the communications director. They have been actively involved in the online organization for lesbian, gay, transgender, bisexual, and queer people since 2005.Read More
By Sasha LaPointe Santa Fe, NM – During the spring of 2010, I assisted my mother, the head of Lushootseed Language Research, in her first Cultural Knowledge Sharing Conference held at Seattle Pacific University. I was delegated the most crucial of tasks: I got coffee, worked the book table, arranged and rearranged the spread of...Read More
By Sasha LaPointe and Christine Trudeau Santa Fe, NM – Murales Road is stopped in a slow moving crowd of people. It looks as if the entire city’s population has been funneled into the narrow residential street in an attempt to make their way into Fort Marcy Park. The park’s entrance is a circus...Read More
