Non-Profit Org. U.S. Postage PAID Colorado Springs, 14 East Cache La Poudre Street CO Colorado Springs, CO 80903 Vol. XIX, No. 1 Winter 2003 Where the Reindeer and the Antelope Roam Susan Scarberry-García, The Hulbert Center Endowed Chair 17 November 2002 carved as a swan and on the reverse side as a shaman’s face Train: Raton, New Mexico to Albuquerque in profile. Acquired in Khanty-Mansiisk in 1998, it is from En route on the Southwest Chief south of Raton, I Tobolsk, I was told, the artist’s sign two arrows emanating am thinking today of visual symbolic correspondences from a heart. To me this pendant represents the magical between the dry terrain of the power of flight and safe travel to llano here and the taiga opening remote places. into tundra in Northwestern Today I travel with Dr. Siberia. Today I have seen several Alexandr Vaschenko (Sasha) of herds of antelope, a far-ranging Moscow State University on train Winter 2003 counterpart to the migrating S. Scarberry-García by Photo 120 from Moscow to Labytnangi, herds of reindeer north of the near Salehard, Russia on the Polar Arctic Circle. It is the animals, the Circle. original “old way people” who In the States I teach about resound in song, story and ritual Native peoples of the American Hulbert Center Hires New Program Director practice, who are the central Southwest, primarily the Navajo icons or images that make Native and the Pueblo. My courses cultures cohere. Whether sung reflect the integrated nature of The Hulbert Center is pleased to announce the hiring of calling of Pope John Paul II. That led to her being hired by for in a Navajo hogan or inside a literature, art and music that Pamela Cosel as the new program coordinator. She started Christian musician and TV’s former “Entertainment Tonight” Siberian Khanty chum, game is distinguishes these cultural work on September 18, 2002, and will work afternoons, 1-5 co-host John Tesh to coordinate private parties held in honored for its life-giving essence lifeways. American colleagues p.m. conjunction with his “Live at Red Rocks Concert” in 1994. in the lands where it journeys for such as N. Scott Momaday, Pam has a diverse background over the past 20 years While employed by the City of Ridgecrest, California, she water, hoof by hoof, paw by paw. Kiowa writer, Andrew Wiget, that includes work for non-profit organizations, was the liaison to the California Desert Tourism folklorist, and Andrew Becenti, city government, and the media. Association, promoting the area in connection 1 August 2001 Navajo culture specialist, among She has edited a weekly newspaper column with the local chamber of commerce and hotel Train: Moscow to Labytnangi, others, have also traveled this and been published in daily and weekly and restaurant industries, as well as managing Russia comparative ground between newspapers in Northern Colorado, as well as the city’s conference/recreation center. She On this long journey from Native North America and the regional and national trade magazines. She has also served as the liaison to the California Film Colorado Springs to Salehard, it Western Siberian Plain, seeking written and produced newsletters, magazines Cosel courtesyPhoto of Pamela Commission. Prior to that, Pam was employed seems that the Native cultural parallel lifeways, reflected in and marketing materials in most of her previous by the City of Greeley for seven years and was symbols have pulled me this far, stories that sustain ecosystems jobs. She occasionally writes freelance for The a member of the first staff that opened and back to Siberia. I remember last Gazette, and is writing her first children’s book operated its performing arts facility, the Union Zinaeda Kondigina with her calf and healthy environments. In series and a contemporary women’s novel. She Colony Civic Center. summer seeing a pair of black this work we often focus on the Pamela Cosel does not shy away from visual projects, either, Her non-profit experience includes work swans painted on turquoise shed doors in the northern symbolic underpinnings of Native spiritual expression, and has also produced promotional videotapes as well as in marketing and public relations for Hospice of Northern Khanty village of Agan, reminiscent of the twin antlered including Deer, Raven and Bear, as reflected in oral cable TV shows. Colorado (Greeley), Colorado Music Festival (Boulder), and elk images on a brown gate in Villa Grove, Colorado that tradition, in order to better visualize what is at stake Pam has extensive experience planning and coordinating United Way of Weld County. She chaired the state Public I pass by on my way home. Indigenous animals establish in promoting the preservation of indigenous cultures’ events, the largest of which was serving as the internal Relations Committee for the Colorado Hospice Organization, the character of a place perhaps more profoundly than ancestral homelands against the processes of globalization communications/information services manager for World and has presented workshops at its annual state conferences. any other manifestation of its spirit energies. I wear around and wanton destruction of the earth’s resources. Youth Day ’93, the international event held in Denver at the She and her husband, Gary, a clinical psychologist, have my neck, always when I travel, a reindeer antler pendant Salehard, founded in 1595, also known by its old 8 (continued on page 2)1 (continued from page 1) name Obdorsk, is a crossroads for Russians of many Katravoz, a rather large northern Khanty village of several ethnicities and for indigenous tribes such as the Khanty, hundred people. The men are on the river fishing. We Southwest Calendar Nenets, Komi and Mansi. The local ethnographic museum notice scarved elderly women in traditional dress of red, “Yamal-Nenets Regional Museum” reflects this cultural blue and yellow fabric, as well as teenage girls in modern diversity and history of borrowing. Founded in 1906 by dress walking down a muddy hillside to the tanker in the Events January 21 Denver: Colorado Historical Society Lecture Series: Harvest Dance and various dances, 505-552-6654. Father Irinarh Shemanovski, a Russian Orthodox priest still harbor that provides a small store for the community. “Shaping the West: The Power of Maps on the April 5-9 Phoenix: Heard Museum Guild Native American dearly beloved by local people, the museum’s collections This “store” is reminiscent of the old-time trading posts Trans- Mississippi Landscape,” 303-866-4686. Student Arts & Crafts Show, 505-252-8840. represent his breadth of vision and love of Native people. established in remote regions of the Navajo reservation January 22 San Ildefonso Pueblo: Evening Firelight Dances, April 15 Denver: Colorado Historical Society Lecture Series, 505-455-2273. “Digging up Ludlow: Archaeology of a Tragedy,” The home of Khanty and Nenets traditional clothing, that still in some locales provide necessities to the people. January 23 San Ildefonso Pueblo: Buffalo, Comanche, and Deer 303-866-4686. duck dolls and wooden counting sticks, the museum is Farther up river, four hours out of Salehard, we Dances, 505-455-2273. April 20 Nambé Pueblo: Easter Sunday: Bow and Arrow February 1 & 2 Phoenix: 13th Annual World Championship Hoop Dance after Mass, 505-455-2036; Zia Pueblo: a focal point of Salehard pride. I gave the director Anna arrive at our destination—an extended-family Khanty Dance Contest, Heard Museum, 602-252-8840 or Dances Sunday and Monday, 505-867-3304. Cazonova a great Raven s u m m e r c a m p 8848. April 22 Albuquerque: American Indian Week Celebration, figure handmade by n a m e d Vo n d i y a z i . February 2 Picurís Pueblo: Candelaria Day Celebration: Dances, Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, 800-766-4405. 505-587-2519. May 1 San Felipe Pueblo: San Felipe Feast Day: Huge Corn Skokomish tribal elder I immediately think March 1 & 2 Phoenix: 45th Annual Heard Museum Guild Indian Dance, 505-867-3381. Carol Johns Lee. Raven t h a t t h i s s o u n d s Fair & Market, Heard Museum, 602-252-8840. May 3 Taos Pueblo: Santa Cruz Feast Day: Blessing of the March 2 & 16 Albuquerque: Honoring Native Women, Indian Fields and Corn Dance, 505-758-1028. flew from the States and like a Navajo name, May 20 Denver: Colorado Historical Society Lecture Pueblo Cultural Center, 800-766-4405. had been in the field in S. Scarberry-García by Photo incorporating as it March 18 Denver: Colorado Historical Society Lecture Series, Series, “‘The Most Picturesque and Siberia once before, does the common “Desperately Seeking Sacagawea,” 303-866-4686. Wonderful Scenery’: March 19 Laguna Pueblo (Old Laguna): St. Joseph’s Feast Day: Illustrations from the Pacific Railroad Surveys,” 303-866-4686. last year on the Agan surname “Yazzie.” River, but afterwards The people shyly Exhibits flew to Moscow and appear out of the log Arizona Phoenix, Heard Museum, 602-252-8840 or 8848, John Hoover: Art (through April 2003); Fifth Anniversary, an exhibition in honor of the then accompanied us plank house, first an and Life (February 15 through May 2003); Fusing Traditions, Native museum, acquisitions and selections from the permanent collection to Salehard to roost elderly woman in a American Contemporary Glass Art (April 12 through September 2003); (through January 14, 2003). near the Nenets, his short pink dress and Maria Martinez, works by the legendary San Ildefonso potter (May 10 Santa Fe, Museum of Fine Arts, 505-476-5068 or 5072, Idea through March 2004); Stars and Stripes in Native American Art (through Photographic: After Modernism (through January 19, 2003); Realism to “kinsmen” on the Yamal scarf, then two young April 2003); Native Peoples of the Southwest (through May 19, 2003).