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Spring 2006.Indd Non-Profit Org. U.S. Postage PAID 14 E. Cache La Poudre Street Permit No. 105 Colorado Springs, CO 80903 Colorado Springs, CO Vol. XXII, No. 2 Spring 2006 CC Alumna Cynthia Chavez Named Museum Director at Indian Pueblo Cultural Center In January 2006, Cynthia L. Chavez building complex.This corporation manages the commercial (CC ’92) assumed the museum director- components of the Center, which include the Pueblo Smoke ship of the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center Shop, Pueblo Harvest Café, Pueblo Gift Shop, banquet and (IPCC) in Alburquerque, New Mexico. facilities rentals, and the new Four Winds Travel Center. Chavez comes from a San Felipe Pueblo, The two organizations work in tandem to provide economic Hopi, Tewa and Navajo background. development opportunities for Pueblo artisans and other She holds an M.A. in American Indian community members. Studies from the University of California-Los Angeles and Spring 2006 a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of New Upcoming Events and Exhibits at the IPCC Mexico. She brings to the position her previous experience as “Saints of the Pueblos” will run at the IPCC museum from an intern and curator at the Smithsonian’s April 1-September 29, 2006. The exhibit National Museum of the American Indian IPCC features the work of prize-winning santero Continued from page 6 (NMAI) in Washington, D.C. As the new Charles Carrillo. Each of New Mexico’s 19 director, Chavez is working to improve pueblos and four abandoned pueblos are Southwest Reading visitors’ experiences at the IPCC. She shown in a retablo. The patron saint of each eventually hopes to increase the staff so pueblo is depicted in pottery style. subjective truth. Bingham studies the rancher from the outside, Summers are dedicated to work. He spends hours while Galvin explores him from the inside. How the reader fabricating parts for his 1959 Studebaker and his 1923 Farmall that the IPCC can expand its educational In honor of the 30-year anniversary of balances fact and fiction, imagination and autobiography is not tractor. He forges the parts by hand because he can’t buy them programming, events, and exhibits. the IPCC’s founding this August, a small as important as the emotional impact of the story, whatever its any more. But he does everything by hand, the hard way, The IPCC opened in its current exhibit is planned that will showcase the combination of narrative elements. because he feels the pieces fit together better that way. Work location in August of 1976, and is owned materials that went into the planning and The Meadow is composed of a group of stories and character for Lyle is a ritual to be performed with reverence. He built and operated by the 19 Pueblos of New building of the Center. A fall 2006 exhibit studies revolving around Lyle’s life and the experiences of his last barn with a handsaw and double-bitted axe. He fitted Mexico. Today, the IPCC receives nearly will later feature the pottery and photography his friends and neighbors. Their stories are strung together “the corners, plumb and square, rolling the logs back again and 200,000 visitors per year. A permanent of Santa Clara Pueblo artist Jason Garcia. loosely by the barbed wire of death, friendship, and common again to trim to a finer fit....He trimmed pegs out of lodgepole occupation. It is in Lyle’s response to the world around him sticks with the axe, and filled the walls so full of pegs it looked museum exhibition presents the history In February of 2007, the IPCC will and his work that we know him best. He doesn’t romanticize like a jail in some places. He went to one-inch pegs to fasten and artifacts of the Pueblo people, while host a traveling exhibit from the NMAI nature–he accepts it. When he lights his lamp in the kitchen down the hand-hewn rafters.” Years later, after Lyle had died, exhibit galleries showcase the innovative on American Indian veterans. This will be in the morning, birds gather at his window: “Lyle says, ‘What Galvin went back to that barn.“I can walk into that barn today works of contemporary Pueblo artists. NMAI’s first attempt at staging traveling kept you?’The sparrow hops onto the windowsill as a chickadee and look up into the massive vaults of rafters, cross beams, The Pueblo House Children’s Museum exhibits at tribal venues. lights and begins bouncing up and down on the juniper branch struts, and remember. I can look around and know one thing (currently open by appointment only) A weekend dance performance at the Native dancing and artist demonstra- just left by the other.‘And you, you cheerful little sonofabitch, at least is for damn sure there.” IPCC: Red Tail Hawk from Zuni Pueblo you don’t waste no time either, do you?’” After he’d finishedThe Last Ranch, Bingham re-visited the provides class tours for grades K-5 that tions are scheduled for most weekends, and His response to the coyotes that roam the ranch is most Whitten ranch. He was so discouraged by what he found that he offer a hands-on introduction to Pueblo history and culture. the Center also hosts an array of public events, including film illustrative of his view of the world and his place in it. Lyle admits in the“Epilogue” to the book that he wasn’t sure he wanted The Institute for Pueblo Indian Studies, also on the premises, screenings, music and readings by Native American perform- watches a young coyote hunting in the meadow: “‘You fell to publish it. Donnie had left Karen and their kids and run off to maintains the Pueblo Indian Archives and Research Library, a ers, and scholarly lectures. through the ice and got drenched just to catch some goddamn Florida with a new wife. The other ranchers were still wrangling superb collection of photographs, books, and tapes pertaining The IPCC is located at 2401 12th St. NW in Albuquerque. disgusting muskrat that you are going to eat raw while you amongthemselves about holistic land management, and not much to New Mexico’s Pueblos. A collection of photographs on loan For more information about upcoming events, as well as hours was being done. After Lyle died a Denver businessman bought shiver yourself dry, and you think that’s something to be proud from the Smithsonian Institution offers an impressive look at and admission fees, call (505) 843-7270 or 1-800-766-4405 of. Well here’s to you, you puffed up little bastard. You can have the meadow to use as a fishing retreat. Thanks to Bingham we at it. You’re a fool to survive if that’s all your life is for. But I’ll say least know how a family ranch was destroyed.Thanks to Galvin’s Pueblo life between 1880 and 1910.The Archives are available (outside of New Mexico). Information about the IPCC and one thing for you. You’re tougher than a pine knot, by God. book we can remember how much was lost. to students and other researchers. the 19 Pueblos of New Mexico may also be found online at There’s no denying you are tough little hombre.’” Of course, —Joe Gordon, Professor Emeritus of English and former The non-profit Cultural Center has a for-profit sister www.indianpueblo.org. this a perfect description of Lyle himself. director of the Hulbert Center for Southwest Studies corporation, Indian Pueblos Marketing, housed in the same —R.B. From the Director Southwest Calendar Anne Hyde, Professor of History Events As I’m writing this, it is Native her language and sociology skills to interview residents and May 1-31 Taos: Taos Spring Arts Festival, several locations, July 25 Taos Pueblo: Santiago Feast Day, Corn Dance, American Heritage Week, a week of to develop some ownership and use maps of the community. 800-732-8267. 505-758-9593 or 505-758-1028. May 20 Taos: 4th Annual Folk Life Festival, Millicent Rogers July 26-30 Gallup: 85th Annual Gallup Inter-tribal Indian Suzi Nishida speakers, exhibits, demonstrations, and Marisela Chavez, a sophomore math major from Taos, will Museum, 505-758-2462. Ceremonial, Red Rock State Park Convention Center, general awareness-raising about native use her GIS and statistical analysis skills to assist the Taos May 20-21 Morrison, Colorado: 6th Annual Tesoro Foundation 888-685-2564. students on campus and native affairs County Economic Development Corporation, theTaos Land Indian Market and Powwow, 303-839-1671. July 28-30 Zuni Pueblo: Annual Arts and Cultural Expo, May 27-28 Jémez Pueblo: Red Rocks Arts and Crafts Show, 505-782-7238. nationally and internationally. Our Trust, and the Acequia Association. She will map a single 505-834-0103. July 29-30 Santa Fe: 55th Annual Spanish Market, Spanish Colonial Native American Student Union (NASU) important acequia (a communally-owned irrigation ditch) as May 27-28 Prescott: 32nd Annual Phippen Museum Western Art Arts Society, Santa Fe Plaza, 505-982-2226, and 20th has been putting this on for fifteen years a pilot project to assess land and water use patterns and the Show, Phippen Museum, Courthouse Plaza, 928-778-1385. Annual Contemporary Hispanic Market, Santa Fe Plaza, th economic significance of the acequias to local people.Emma June 2-4 Oklahoma City: 20 Annual Red Earth Native 505-983-2640. and it has made a huge difference on American Festival, Cox Convention Center, 405-427-5228. August 4 Santo Domingo Pueblo: Annual Feast Day, campus. Speakers like Joseph Hesbrook, Gamelsky, a junior from Albuquerque, will be the research June 3 Tesuque Pueblo: Blessing of the Fields, Corn Dance, Corn Dance, 505-465-2214.
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