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Vol. XVIII, No. 3 Fall 2002 Passage and Discovery: The Southwest Studies Major

Tracey Clark, Southwest Studies Major (’03), Colorado Springs, CO Early June, and I’m headed south from Taos, New Mexico, into a context that has remained with me to this day. That class toward Santa Fe. It is day one of a seven-day research trip into lit the spark that would later result in my decision to major in the heart of the Southwest. The morning sunlight cuts a clear Southwest Studies. I would not make that decision for another path to the western horizon, illuminating the gaping mouth of year and a half, after first declaring myself an art history major. I the Rio Grande gorge. This sight never fails to inspire me. With am grateful that I have developed a firm foundation in art history awe and anticipation, I wonder what awaits me on this journey. because I feel that it strengthens my studies now and will be a I am a fourth-year non-traditional student at Colorado benefit when I continue on to graduate school. College and a Liberal Arts and Sciences major with an emphasis Being a Southwest Studies major has allowed me the flexibility in Southwest Studies. My focus of study is Art and Culture of the and freedom to define my own interests and choose my classes Fall 2002 Southwest, specifically pottery of the Pueblo people. My decision accordingly. Based on the requirements for the major and my own to become a Southwest Studies major and my time at Colorado preferences, I have taken classes from the history, anthropology, College to date have been a wonderful process. art history, English, and religion departments, all cross-listed I was born in Pueblo, as Southwest Studies courses. Colorado. My father’s Other favorites have been passion has always been “Navajo Narrative Traditions” archaeology and undoubtedly with Susan Scarberry-Garcia Sandweiss to Deliver Norman Lecture that is how my interest in and “Geographic Inquiry in the material culture of the the Southwest” with Hillary Southwest began. As a child, Chuck Borders by Photo Hamann, who introduced The Hulbert Center is pleased to announce that this year’s American West, to be published in October by the Yale University I visited Bandelier National me to the wonders of GIS Andrew Norman Endowed Guest Lecture Series speaker will Press. She has also written numerous articles, essays, and book Monument in New Mexico (Geographic Information be Martha A. Sandweiss, Professor of American Studies and chapters and is an accomplished public speaker with nearly fifty and Hovenweep in Utah Systems) technology. History at Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts. She presentations to her credit. Originally from Missouri, Sandweiss’ along with my parents and In the summer of 2001, I will speak twice on Thursday, November undergraduate work was at Harvard four siblings. received a Faculty/Student 7, 2002. Her first presentation will be at University, where she graduated magna I am a single parent Research Grant with Victoria raising two daughters, Heidi the Aficionados luncheon at noon in the cum laude. She has two master’s degrees in Levine. The purpose of the (14) and Erin (11). I am grant was to conduct research at Gaylord Room in the Worner Center; the history from Yale in addition to her Ph.D. attending Colorado College the Colorado Springs Fine Art title of her presentation is “Laura Gilpin in history from the same institution. She thanks to the generous Center’s Taylor Museum, where and the American Southwest.” A book sale joined the faculty at Amherst in 1989; support of the Winkler a sizeable ancestral Puebloan and signing will follow her presentation. previously she served as a curator at the Scholarship fund. When I pottery collection is housed. I At 7:00 PM in Gates Common Room Amon Carter Museum in Ft. Worth, Texas. began my time at Colorado first became interested in the in Palmer Hall, Sandweiss will present permission of M.A. Sandweiss by Photo In addition to her two presentations College I planned to major pottery collection when I was the Norman Lecture, entitled “Print the on campus, Sandweiss will visit a class and in English. I have always introduced to Taylor Museum Legend: Photography and the Nineteenth- meet with faculty. enjoyed writing and liter- Tracey Clark director and curator Cathy Century West.” A book signing will follow, The Andrew Norman Guest Lecture ature, but mainly, I thought Wright, who told me several but no books will be available for purchase Series was established by a grant from the that I needed a mental starting point. The first class I enrolled in years ago that the collection needed attention. I volunteered was a history course. Immediately I began to question my interest to be the one to do it. The collection includes pieces from the at this presentation. Books are available Andrew Norman Foundation in 1988 to in English as a major. In the fall of my first year at CC I took Colorado College Museum collection. My research project for purchase in the CC Bookstore in the enhance the Southwest Studies program. a Southwest Studies/Art History course with Will Wroth titled has involved an in-depth cataloguing process, inventory, and basement of the Worner Center. “Hispanic Art of the Southwest,” which involved a five-day trip descriptive analysis of over 450 pieces of pottery. By the end of Sandweiss is the author, editor, or co- —JD to New Mexico. The experience of going to New Mexico and the summer I had worked my way through half of the collection. editor of ten books, including her latest, meeting with contemporary artists, along with visits to museums In order to continue what I had begun, Vicki and I applied for Print the Legend: Photography and the Martha A. Sandweiss and places of historical significance, helped to put the material and received another collaborative research grant this summer. (continued on page three) From the Director Southwest Calendar

Victoria Lindsay Levine Events The past three years have gone so quickly, it’s hard to believe 1963 while a student at Dartmouth. It seems fitting to use this September 14 Santa Fe: 12 th Annual All Children’s Powwow, December 7-8 Santa Fe: Winter Spanish Market, Sweeney Center, I’m starting my second term as director of the Hulbert Center. endowment to support student research and to recognize exceptional Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, 800-607-4636. 505-982-2226. When I moved into the Center in the fall of 1999, my goals were student achievement in Southwest Studies. We want to express our September 14-16 Dulce: Stone Lake Fiesta, various Jicarilla Apache December 8 & 15 Albuquerque: Holiday Concerts at San Felipe de Neri to develop more courses on Native American topics, to expand the appreciation to Dr. Benezet’s surviving children, Barbara, Julie and Dances, 505-759-3242. Church, Old Town Plaza, 505-242-8244. roles of environmental science and the fine arts in our curriculum, to Martha Benezet and Laura Remington. September 19 Laguna Pueblo (Old): St. Joseph’s Feast Day, Buffalo, December 9-10 Santa Fe: Santa Fe Art Auction, Sweeney Center, develop a community learning component, to enhance intercultural Special thanks also to Maria Varela, Rural Resources Group of Eagle and Social Dances, 505-552-6654. 505-954-5858. experiences, and to encourage student research. I planned to revive Albuquerque, who served as Acting Director during my sabbatical September 25 Laguna Pueblo (Paguate): St. Elizabeth’s Feast Day, December 12 Pojoaque Pueblo: Feast Day Mass at 10 a.m. in Tribal the Jackson Fellows Seminar as an annual conference, to increase the leave in the spring semester. Harvest and Social Dances, 505-552-6654. Council Room, dances performed after the Mass, number of faculty teaching in Southwest Studies, to form a Southwest September 25-29 Santa Fe: Santa Fe Wine & Chile Fiesta, 505-988-8060. 505-455-2278. Studies advisory committee, and to maintain our vigorous public Southwest Studies Courses, 2002-2003 December 15 Santa Fe: Las Posadas, Santa Fe Plaza, 505-476-5100. outreach program. I’m happy to report our success in meeting each of Southwest Studies September 29-30 Taos Pueblo: San Geronimo Feast Day, Buffalo, these goals, thanks to the hard work of our faculty and staff. It seems Comanche, and Corn Dances, ceremonial foot races and pole climb, December 24 Laguna, San Felipe, Santa Ana, Jémez, and Zia Pueblos: • First Year Course: The American Southwest, A Sense of Place–2 trade fair, 800-733-6396. Dances after Midnight Mass, 800-733-6396. especially significant that we have begun to incorporate Geographic blocks (Victoria Levine and Susan Scarberry-Garcia, Information Systems technology into our courses, because this Southwest Studies) October 4 Nambé Pueblo: St. Francis of Assisi Feast Day, Elk December 24 Taos Pueblo: Sundown Procession with bonfires, 505-758- interdisciplinary analytical tool enables us to develop fresh approaches Dance, 505-455-2036. 1028; Ácoma Pueblo: Lit with Luminarias from Scenic View • First Year Course: The American Southwest, Heritage and Variety– Point to “Sky City,” 505-552-6604; Laguna Pueblo: After 10:00 to teaching and research in Southwest Studies. 2 blocks (Doug Monroy, History) October 5-13 Albuquerque: 2002 Balloon Fiesta, Balloon Fiesta Park, 505-821-1000. a.m. Mass, various dances, 505-552-6654; San I also hoped to undertake a comprehensive evaluation of our • Community Organizations in the Southwest–2 semesters Felipe Pueblo: Dances after Midnight Mass, 505-867- curriculum, which will be our main project in the year ahead. (Mark Levine, American Cultural Studies) October 12 Tesuque Pueblo: San Diego Feast Day, various dances, 3381; Santa Ana Pueblo, This year we are offering 47 blocks taught by 27 faculty members • Geographic Inquiry in the Southwest (Hillary Hamann, 505-983-2667. 505-867-3301, Tesuque Pueblo, 505-983-2667, and representing fourteen academic departments and interdisciplinary Southwest Studies) October 17 Laguna Pueblo (Paraje): St. Margaret Mary’s Feast Day, Nambé Pueblo: Buffalo, Deer, and Antelope Dances after Mass, programs. Such extensive course offerings and strong faculty • Critical Inquiry in Southwest Studies (Hillary Hamann and Harvest and Social Dances, 505-552-6654. 505-455-2036. involvement suggest that we are now poised to revise our major, Susan Scarberry-Garcia, Southwest Studies) November 12 Jémez and Tesuque Pueblos: San Diego Feast Day and December 24-25 Picurís Pueblo: Spanish Dance drama Los Matachines, for the first time in the program’s history. I hope this will lead to Dances, 800-733-6396. 505-587-2519; San Juan Pueblo: Los Matachines plus Fine Arts and Humanities Pine Torch Processions, 505-852-4400. the development of an independent major and minor in Southwest • Mexican Folklórico Dance–2 semesters (Jimmy Roybal, November 16-17 Phoenix: Heard Museum Spanish Market, 602-252-8840. Studies, following the precedent already set by our sister programs Southwest Studies) November 28 Zuni Pueblo: Christmas Light Parade, 505-782-4495. December 25 Tesuque Pueblo, 505-983-2667 and Taos Pueblo, at Colorado College (Asian Studies, Women’s Studies, and • World Music Ensemble: Mariachi Tigre de Colorado College– December 7-8 Phoenix: Celebration of Basketweaving Festival & 505-758-1028, various dances; San Ildefonso Pueblo: Christmas Celebration, Matachina Dance, 505-455-2273. Environmental Science). Southwest Studies will always remain an 2 semesters (Michelle Lobato, Music) Marketplace, Heard Museum, 602-252-8840. interdisciplinary program–we do not wish to become an academic • Hispanic Art of the Southwest (Will Wroth, Art) December 7-8 Jémez Pueblo: Walatowa Winter Arts & Crafts Show, December 25-28 Laguna Pueblo: Harvest Dance, 505-552-6654; Zia department. However, an independent major and minor with a • Native Art of the Southwest (Claire Farrer, Southwest Studies) 505-834-7235. Pueblo: various dances, 505-867-3304. clearly established core and a progressive sequence of courses will • Native American Literature (Susan Scarberry-Garcia) bring definition and intellectual rigor to our program, enabling us • Navajo Narrative Traditions (Susan Scarberry-Garcia) to better serve our students and the college community. • Hidden Life of the Desert: Women Writers of the Southwest This spring we established the Joseph T. Gordon Prize, which Exhibits (Beauty Bragg, English) Arizona rewards outstanding scholarly or creative achievement in Southwest • Literature of the American Southwest (Susan Scarberry-Garcia) Phoenix, Heard Museum, 602-252-8840 or 8848, Every Picture Tells A Story, (through September 22). Studies by a Colorado College faculty member. Joe is a Professor • American Indian Music of the Southwest (Victoria Levine, explores the meanings behind the designs and symbols in Native artwork Santa Fe, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, 505-946-1017, Georgia O’Keeffe and the Emeritus of English; he was one of the founders of our program and Music/ Southwest Studies) (ongoing); New Works: The Heard Museum’s Warhol Foundation Artists- Calla Lily in American Art, 1860-1940 (October 3 through January 14, 2003). served as the first director of the Hulbert Center. The prize will be • Chicana/o Literature (Clara Lomas, Spanish) In-Residence (October 5 through January 2003); So Fine! Masterworks of Santa Fe, Governor’s Gallery, 505-827-3089, 29th Annual Governor’s Awards awarded each year at the annual Honors Convocation; the winner Fine Art from the Heard Museum (October 26 through March 9, 2003). for Excellence in the Arts (September 20 through October 25); Five Allies: Social Sciences receives $1,000 and a college medal. Funding has been obtained from Colorado Frank Ettenberg, Sam Scott, Reg Loving, John Connell, Gene Newmann a donor who wishes to remain anonymous. I’m pleased to announce • Sustainable Development (Walt Hecox, Economics) (November 1 through December 6). • Native Americans Under Federal Law (Phil Kannan, Southwest Studies) Colorado Springs, Coburn Gallery, Colorado College, 719-389-6607, Sah Weh: that Professor Doug Monroy (History) has received the first Gordon One Thousand Years of Pueblo Pottery (through October 23). Santa Fe, Museum of Fine Arts, 505-476-5068 or 5072, Print Show (October Prize, in recognition of his significant, ground-breaking work on the • American Indian History (Anne Hyde, History) 4 through February 15, 2003); Idea Photographic: Modernism and After • Native Peoples of the Southwest (Claire Farrer) Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, 719-634-5581, Recent development of Mexican culture in Los Angeles. Acquisitions to the Permanent Collection (October 4 through November (October 11 through January 13, 2003). Our program coordinator, Jim Diers, is retiring with this issue of • I m m i g r a n t Communities i n C o l o r a d o 24); Lew Tilley (October 4 through February 2, 2003), Selections from Santa Fe, Museum of International Folk Art, 505-476-1200 or 1219, Cerámica la Tertulia. Jim’s contributions to our program over the past five years Springs (Eric Popkin, S o c i o l o g y ) the Fine Art Permanent Collection (October 4 through February 2, 2003). y Cultura: The Story of Spanish and Mexican Mayólica (November 17 • Environmental Justice in the Southwest (Maria Varela, Southwest have been innumerable. In addition to his regular duties of editing Denver, Museo de las Americas, 303-571-4401, Corridos Sin Fronteras: A New through July 6, 2003). the newsletter and supporting faculty development activities, public Studies) World Ballad Tradition (through November 23). Santa Fe, Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, 800-607-4636, Navajo outreach programs, and the Hulbert Center Press, Jim has worked • Prehistory: The Southwest (Ruth Van Dyke, Anthropology) Women’s Garments, 1850-1900; Recent Acquisitions, 1997-2002, textiles, • The Anthropology of Food (Mario Montaño, Anthropology) Denver, Denver Art Museum, 720-865-5000, El Greco to Picasso from the closely with our Summer Institute directors and has organized several Phillips Collection (October 4 through January 4, 2004); The Harmsen jewelry, sculpture, baskets, and paintings (through October 27); Paintings by special projects, such as the Millennium Exhibit and the inventory • Globalization and Immigration in the Southwest (Eric Popkin) Collection: A Colorado Legacy (extended through March 2005). Darren Vigil Gray (November 17 through April 27, 2003). • History of the Southwest Since the Mexican War (Doug of CC artifacts in the Taylor Museum. As Director, I have especially Golden, Foothills Art Center, 303-279-3922, Rocky Mountain National Taos, The Harwood Museum of Art, 505-758-9826, The Triumph of Beatrice appreciated Jim’s willingness to go the extra mile, his extensive Monroy) Watermedia Exhibition (through October 27); Earth’s Bounty: Paintings Mandelman (September 20 through January 12, 2003); Jennifer Lynch and knowledge of the Southwest, and his genial personality. We thank Jim • Museums and the Presentation of the Southwest (Lonn Taylor, by Steve Tracy (November 9 through January 12, 2003). Lois Tarlow (through October 20); Louis Catusco Works on Paper (October for his good work and wish him and Jan all the best in retirement. Southwest Studies) 22 through January 5, 2003); Bidstrup Collections/Taos Moderns (November Pueblo, Sangre de Cristo Arts & Conference Center, 719-543-0130, The Wearable 8 through February 9, 2003). • State and Local Government (Bob Loevy, Political Science) Work of Gypsy Ames, Sha Sha Higby, Jeung-Hwa Park and Patricia Black A Word of Thanks • Field Archaeology (Ruth Van Dyke) (through November 16); Extending the Body: Fashion Accessories (through Oklahoma On behalf of the faculty, students, and staff of the Hulbert • Ecological Economics and Sustainability (Walt Hecox) November 9); Cowboy Culture: Selections from the King Collection (through Oklahoma City, National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, 405-478-2250, Center, I want to thank Philip Swan (CC ’84) and David Birnbaum • Culture Contact and Writing Cultures (Mario Montaño) October 26); Pueblo Watercolor Society (through November 9). Prix de West Invitational Exhibition, exhibit of more than 270 pieces of (CC ’83) for their generous donations to the Southwest Studies Natural Sciences Western paintings and sculpture (through September 8); Traditional Cowboy New Mexico Arts Association, includes the best of saddle making, silver smithing, rawhide Discretionary Fund; we will use these gifts to help offset the rising • Landscape and Climate Change in the Southwest (Hillary Hamann) Albuquerque, 516 Magnífico Artspace, 505-242-8244, Magnífico Honors braiding and bit and spur making (September 28 through December 31); The cost of course field trips. We are also deeply grateful to the lateLouis • Field Botany (Tass Kelso, Biology) Nick Abdalla, Regina Held, Lydia Madrid, Enrique Montenegro (through Arts and Culture of the Ute Indians, a national traveling exhibition from the Benezet, a former President of Colorado College, who established • Field Zoology (Brian Linkhart, Biology) September 21); Downtown Studio Tour Preview Exhibit (September 27 Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center featuring more than 200 art forms of the The Joel T. Benezet Memorial Fund for the Hulbert Center for • Ecology–7 blocks (Jim Ebersole, Sharon Hall, Brian Linkhart, through 29). Ute tribes (October 12 through December 31). Southwest Studies. Joel, who was Dr. Benezet’s son, was killed in Marc Snyder, and Alexandra Vargo, Biology) Albuquerque, Albuquerque Museum, 505-243-7255, Art of Albuquerque Southwest Reading

Images of Historic Southern Colorado, Mary Jane Massey Rust. Colorado Springs: Hulbert Center Press, 2002. (continued from first page) The main objective of this project is to make the collection attend graduate school at the University of New Mexico, which Two years ago Mary Jane Rust, a local historian and author, more accessible for students and scholars who are interested in has masters and doctoral programs in Art History/Art of the developed and hosted a series for Colorado Springs’ KRDO-TV conducting research. I am enjoying the hands-on experience of Americas. I would like to teach, write, conduct field research, and titled “Millennium Moments.” The series featured over 200 brief working with such exquisite pottery. become a museum curator. I embrace the idea of building what snapshots of the people, events and institutions that influenced While working at the museum last year, I began to think Henry Glassie terms a “transdisciplinary” approach to academia the development of the Pikes Peak Region. This research inspired about ideas for a senior project and thesis. I wanted to be able to and the world by creating and maintaining a strong background her latest book, Images of Historic Southern Colorado, published share the pottery collection with others, so the idea of curating an in cultural anthropology, archaeology, language, and history. earlier this year by the Hulbert Center Press. exhibit was a natural progression. Originally I had intended only Being a Southwest Studies major at Colorado College is making The essays found here are short, breezy and entertainingly to show pieces from the ancestral collection. As I thought about it possible for me to lay the groundwork for this plan. written. A total of 165 made the transition from the earlier how I would go about presenting the material in the exhibit, I television scripts. The stories are loosely divided into seven chap- realized that I had to somehow make the connection between ters entitled “Cast of Characters,” “Mountains and Mining,” old pottery and the contemporary work. I felt that the best way “Origins,” “Town Tales,” “Railroading,” “Shorter Stories‚” and to do this was to meet with Pueblo potters, the descendents of those who made the old pottery. I received a Venture Grant that “Significant Events.” enabled me to take a research trip to New Mexico in the early All of the usual suspects are here: Palmer, Stratton, The part of this summer. Aficionados Luncheons Broadmoor, and the Pikes Peak Hill Climb. Not surprisingly While in New Mexico, I met with Elvis Torres of San Ildefonso there is a heavy emphasis on Colorado Springs and its immedi- Pueblo, Michael Kanteena of Laguna Pueblo, and Rachel Concho Thursday, September 12 ate surroundings, but the book lives up to its name and offers a of Ácoma Pueblo. Elvis Torres is the owner of Torres Indian Arts Luncheon and talk by nice selection of material from elsewhere in southern Colorado. about the Brown Bombers, Colorado Springs’ championship at San Ildefonso Pueblo. He took me on a tour of the village and Barbara Waters Visitors or newcomers will learn the basics, but there is something African American baseball club. Photographs of the team are showed me pieces from his personal collection. His own pottery here for even the most seasoned regional history buff. Among echoes the traditional San Ildefonso pottery styles of the past “Sharing the Aspen Years with Frank Waters” available, and the piece would have been more powerful had the the nuggets that are uncovered is the story of how the Pikes Peak century, such as the polished black-on-black. At Laguna Pueblo, Brown Bombers’ proud and determined faces accompanied it. marathon grew out of a 1956 medical experiment intended to Michael Kanteena took me hiking with his children to see some Wednesday, October 9 Similarly, it seemed odd to discuss Nikola Tesla’s scientific work show that smokers had diminished physical endurance compared ruins and pictographs on the reservation. Later he showed me his Luncheon, talk, book sale and signing by but not include a portrait of this strange genius. One look in Tesla’s to non-smokers. Readers can also learn why Colorado became the home and studio. Michael’s pottery is a blend of the old and the eyes speaks volumes about the man, but instead the author chose Mary Jane Rust first state in the nation to recognize the Columbus Day holiday new. He combines his own personal style with black-on-white to include a photograph of his rival, Thomas Edison. Ancestral Puebloan pottery styles. The following day I met with “Behind the Scenes: and how this led to the pardon of a Cripple Creek man convicted Rust’s creative and wide ranging choice of topics will un- Rachel Concho at Ácoma. I spent five hours with her at her Images of Historic Southern Colorado” of a double homicide. doubtedly create an appetite for more details. Her extensive kitchen table while she made pottery and told me about her life As the book’s name implies, images are at its heart and there bibliography should help to satisfy this hunger. An index would and work. She digs her clay from the same source from which Thursday, November 7 are plenty of them. Rust draws upon private collectors and archival have been an equally appreciated addition. While there is a table her mother and her grandmother got their clay. It was such a repositories from around the state, but the bulk of her images Luncheon, talk, book sale and signing by of contents at the front, her creative titles do not always clearly privilege to meet with these potters who were so generous with come from the Colorado College Special Collections. Among the Martha Sandweiss describe the topic, and the way her essays are categorized is not their time and knowledge. The experience has given me fresh more memorable views is one of a handmade ski and ski pole “Laura Gilpin and the American Southwest” consistently intuitive. These characteristics are part of what insight and broadened my perspective. The week I spent in New fashioned into a cross and hanging on the wall of a Breckenridge Mexico not only gave me the opportunity to meet with people also make the book fun, but it also makes locating specific references church. Father Dyer, a Methodist preacher who traveled on skis to but also allowed me to immerse myself in the cultures and the unnecessarily frustrating. Adding an index to a volume this size The Andrew Norman Guest Lecturer visit various congregations, reportedly carved the heavy wooden place. simply makes it more user friendly, but this oversight is all too “Print the Legend: Photography items. On another page readers can see the satisfaction, mixed I also met with Jonathan Batkin, the director of the common among local history books and will not detract from and the Nineteenth-Century West” with exhaustion, of Fanny Mae Duncan as she counts her receipts Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian in Santa Fe and most readers’ enjoyment. Gates Common Room, Palmer Hall, 7:00-9:00 PM following a night’s work at the Cotton Club. There is also a picture a former curator of the Taylor Museum who has researched Reading Images of Historic Southern Colorado is like flipping and written extensively on the topic of Pueblo pottery, and J. J. of the original design for the William Jackson Palmer sculpture. through a family photo album; it recalls our shared past, retells Brody, a retired professor of Art History at the University of New Although ultimately rejected, this concept featured a flamboyant Wednesday, December 4 well-loved stories, and reminds us of forgotten events. This book Mexico who has researched and written extensively on the topic handlebar mustache on Palmer’s otherwise recognizable face. Luncheon and talk will undoubtedly be pulled out often by anyone with even a pass- of Ancestral Puebloan pottery and painting. While Rust’s collection includes a wide variety of fascinating to be announced ing interest in our region’s history. Through meeting with the Pueblo potters, I realized that the and entertaining photographs, some significant gaps do exist. For exhibit would be more successful if I presented pieces of pottery example, a simple sketch of a baseball glove illustrates an essay –Matt Mayberry, Director, Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum from a time span of one thousand years, which would include Buffet luncheons cost $11.00 and are held at noon in the ancestral, historic, and contemporary pieces. The exhibit, titled Gaylord Room of Worner Center. For reservations call “Sah Weh: One Thousand Years of Pueblo Pottery,” is scheduled 389-6649. If you make a reservation and cannot come, in the Coburn Gallery at the Colorado College Worner Center (continued from page four) please call to cancel, preferably two days in advance. No- from September 3 to October 23, 2002. Please call 389-6607 shows prevent other Aficionados from attending these I have suffered from what one might call an academic split Spanish minor. Studying on the block plan—full immersion in to find out dates and hours when the gallery will be open. The popular luncheons, and Southwest Studies must pay for personality in my three years at Colorado College. I decided one specific subject for a short time—often left me frustrated. I opening reception and gallery talk will be Thursday, September the uneaten meals. early on to double major in anthropology and Southwest Studies, struggled to weave two majors and a minor together and searched 12, at 3:00 PM. and just recently after returning from studying abroad in Costa to find correlations between classes in order to create a foundation After graduating from Colorado College, I would like to Rica with the ACM program, I elected also to work toward a Academic Split Personality Sustainability Dynamics on the Colorado Plateau

Kathryn Fischer, Southwest Studies Major (’03), Wazatta, MN Patrick Holmes, LAS Natural Resources Major (’03), New Hope, PA, Research Assistant to Walt Hecox, David Packard on which I could begin to build my Other aboriginal groups in this region who have as few as three Professor of Economics and Southwest Studies faculty member. career goals. Last fall my winding living native speakers have little or no hope to preserve their When second block break rolls around this fall, my fellow human comfort, and wary of the potential effects of “seeding” scholastic paths finally converged in indigenous languages and traditional ways of life. The Bribri desert aficionados and I will strike out in search of the unfettered a recreation monoculture in the communities of the Colorado the small town of Bribri, a few miles are unique, however, since they have revived the Bribri language side canyons of southeastern Utah. Like the desert varnish on Plateau, a monoculture susceptible to the same boom-bust cycles from the Caribbean coast, where an among younger generations through nationally supported Photo by Dennis Fischer by Photo canyon walls, we go hoping to achieve a kind of slick rock solace, resource extracting economies experienced in the past. What independent study project led me to educational programs. Of the eight other existing indigenous most of us traveling westward on I-70 once, twice, three times we witness now will not be the last transition on the Plateau; a address the importance of indigenous groups in Costa Rica, the Bribri are the only one with a published a year or more, in search of the type of rugged comfort we have sustainable balance of land use and management is needed so language maintenance. Now when dictionary, grammar and children’s books. The success of the come to identify with the CC block break experience. And we’re that CC students in fifty years will continue to take their block people ask me, “Southwest Studies? Bribri—attributed primarily to the support of the Universidad de not alone. Millions are traveling to the Colorado Plateau in hopes breaks on the fragile and inspiring Colorado Plateau. Kathryn Fischer What are you going to do with that Costa Rica, San Jose, and Maria Bozzolli, an anthropologist who that the region’s convoluted canyon walls and muddy rivers will major?” I answer quickly, “I will has dedicated her life to chronicling the language—has served as To find out more about the changing economy and peoples and create unique and lasting impressions on their hearts and minds. crusade to protect the endangered languages of the Americas.” an inspirational model for other native tribes also struggling to places of the Colorado Plateau please visit our Summer 2002 Colorado But rarely do we desert-wanderers stop to notice the footprints I’m a sucker for classes that offer field trips. That is why I maintain their natal languages. Plateau research site: http://www2.coloradocollege.edu/dept/ec2/ we in turn leave on this fragile land, consumed instead by the EC2/CPWebpage/welcome.htm originally decided to major in Southwest Studies at CC. Although Since little has been published on the Bribri, I visited the town impacts the land and experience create for ourselves. my decision may have been haphazard, it was certainly the right of Bribri several times to conduct personal interviews in which I A unique transition is occurring on the land and in the one. The diverse requirements for the Southwest Studies major would converse with any willing person. I even traded a lock of communities that surround and accompany the desert we love, a have kept me on my toes; there is no room for monotony or my sun-bleached hair for one old man’s story. I also spoke with transition brought on by the surge of our own footsteps, our desire boredom, since one block will be “Geology of the Colorado several professors at the UCR to gain an outside perspective. This to recreate and philosophize, and most notably our incidental Plateau,” and the next is “Literature of the Rio Grande.” However, project was important to me because it was the first time I began spending of money. People and places that used to extract the it wasn’t until I traveled outside of the Southwest that I realized to see clearly the overlap in my different academic interests of

natural resources of the Colorado Plateau for their livelihood Holmes Patrick by Photo how I would incorporate my Southwest Studies major in shaping both Southwest Studies and anthropology. The Bribri’s struggle are beginning to leave the resources to harvest the tourists, new my career goals. to retain their cultural heritage in a sea of American pop culture, I residents, and recreation enthusiasts, creating a new-found During my sophomore year I took “Navajo Narrative think, is universal. After graduation this May, I hope to take what growth in the service sector of the economy. These new jobs Traditions” from Susan Scarberry-Garcia. One lecture focused I learned in Costa Rica and apply it to Native American groups have sparked a profound transition in the way our public lands on endangered languages and that which is lost when the native right here in the Southwest, where some indigenous languages are managed while drastically impacting the historic cultures of speakers die. Many months later, that lecture had stayed with me could wilt away if not properly protected. the communities in the region. when I decided, for an independent study project, to evaluate Recently I made the familiar drive from the Front Range out the state of the Bribri, an indigenous group that inhabits the to the Plateau, this time in the name of research, with my fellow Talamanca Mountain region of Costa Rica bordering Panama. (continued on page six) researchers David Pilz and Jeremiah Centrella (both of the class of 2002), in attempts to grapple with this transition and the Why Major in Southwest Studies? concept of the Colorado Plateau as a region whose economy is increasingly based on its natural amenities: beauty, solitude, and lifestyle. Through our summer research we are learning that the Kayt Brumder, Southwest Studies Major (’99), Dessau, Germany changes and conflicts taking place on the Plateau are characteristic In 1999 I graduated from the Colorado College with a degree operator, ski instructor, ESL (English of strife throughout the American West. The political squabbles in Southwest Studies: The Literature of the Southwest. This as a Second Language) teacher, artist’s on and over the Plateau represent some of the most complex land lengthy attempt to codify knowledge that I pursued through the assistant, and railroad bartender while management issues and cultural confrontations our nation can scope of various disciplines has been both a source of guidance living in one of the many hearts of the expect to face in the coming decades. Mill Creek Canyon near Moab, UT and disorientation since I left the region that inspired it. My Southwest. The story of the Plateau is one of a perpetual battle of two Photo by Dennis Fischer by Photo academic path never had an end in mind, it was about a process My trajectory then carried me opposing views, each acting with noble self-interest in efforts of constructing a passion. Unfortunately, the end had to come to its opposite pole. I moved to the to preserve very different relationships to one landscape. It is eventually, and I was spat out of the academic and nostalgic realm northeast Kingdom of Vermont to a story of characters who fight battles to save living rivers by and into the professional world. teach visual art at Burke Mountain Kayt Brumder selling ice-cream in downtown Moab and of characters who First I went to Madrid. I taught business English and Academy, a small and innovative fight battles in federal courts to save their family’s ranch and tried to trace residues of culture from America Latina back to boarding school. heritage from grazing restrictions imposed by the National Park Newsletter of the Hulbert Center for Southwestern Studies their European roots. The roots didn’t satisfy my cravings for It appears as though I have abandoned the essence of Service. It is a tale of communities supported by federal lands of The Colorado College the Southwest nor for the realization of a career that has some the Southwest, as I am now living in northeastern Germany, and simultaneously hindered by them. Despite this continuing Editor: Jim Diers relationship to what I studied in college. participating in a project at the Bauhaus. In fact, this is not the conflict we can say that the sustainable future of the Colorado Asst. Editor: Kathy Kaylan Certainly, I thought, people in Durango, the metropolis case. I see my experience here as a way to merge my passion for Plateau and its communities can only be achieved through forging of the Four Corners Region, could see the relevance of my exploring the sense of place in the Southwest with a broader study some sort of balance between those who develop the landscape for www.ColoradoCollege.edu/Dept/SW/ The Colorado College does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, age, religion, sex, background within their company, organization, or institution. of places and spaces in the more applied disciplines of urban our material wealth, and those who harvest spiritual fulfillment natural origin, sexual orientation or physical handicap in its education program, activities They couldn’t. I did hold a wide variety of jobs including lift planning and architecture. and recreation from it. We must be wary of pressures to dedicate or employment policies. remaining natural resources to meeting marginal demands for