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Frances Madeson

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Navajo potter Virgil Ortiz was one of the many talented artists at the 96th SWAIA Santa Fe Indian Market.
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Photos: Eight Mind-Blowing Artists at the SWAIA 96th Santa Fe Indian Market

By Frances Madeson
A model wears clothing by designer Crystal Worl.
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Great Native Designs at the SWAIA Haute Couture Fashion Show

By Frances Madeson
Racial Justice, Two Row Wampam Paddle
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Seeking Racial Justice for All Communities, Including Indian Country

By Frances Madeson
The Nativo Lodge has hotel rooms personally designed by Native artists. This room is titled "Sustenance" by Native artist Warren Montoya.
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Each Night A Masterpiece: 24 Native Artists Design One Room Each at Elite Nativo Lodge

By Frances Madeson
Chaco Canyon replica drinking glass on the right—next to traditional Mesoamerican cocoa grinder, cocoa beans and cocoa specialty chocolates.
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Chocolate Time Travel in a Cocoa Bean

By Frances Madeson
Tourists and locals can learn traditional agriculture practices in the Resilience Garden at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center where one of the many crops is corn, one of the three sisters. This young man helps with the corn harvest, a community activity.
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Resilience Garden Bringing Traditional Agriculture Back

By Frances Madeson
International Indigenous Youth Council, Native American Youth, Hydraulic Fracking, Fracking, Chaco Canyon, DAPL, Dakota Access Pipeline, Standing Rock, Air Pollution, Navajo Nation, Bureau of Land Management, Oil and Gas Development, Mineral Resources, Victoria Barr, Environmental Impact Statement, Economic Development, Interior, Department of the Interior, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Oceti Sakowin, Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, American Indian Movement
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‘Get the Frack Out’ Says International Indigenous Youth Council During 80-Mile Run to BLM

By Frances Madeson
Casino Del Sol, Hiapsi Spa, Tucson, Arizona, Pascua Yaqui, Natural Healing, Native American Healing Herbs, Healing Herbs, Forbes Travel Guide, Mexico
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Unwind in Tucson: Hiapsi Spa at Casino Del Sol Blooms in the Desert

By Frances Madeson
Casino del Sol, Yaqui Values, Xander Cameron, Pascua Yaqui, Traditional Diet, Vegetarian Dishes
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10-Course Vegan Tasting Menu Incorporates Yaqui Values

By Frances Madeson
In order to deal with the injuries and then loss of his son over the past few years, ormer Pojoaque Governor George Rivera, has created three major works of art as a loving tribute to his son. Courtesy photo by Kerri Cottle
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Father and Former Pojoaque Governor George Rivera Creates Beautiful Art To Grieve His Son

By Frances Madeson
Spider Rock in Canyon de Chelly. The canyon is in the Navajo Nation and contains several sacred sites, some known to the general public and some not. A particularly interesting rocky spire is reputed to be the place where Spider Woman brought the skill of weaving to the Navajo people. Tourists are not allowed in Canyon de Chelly without a Navajo guide, both because of the sacred sites and because people sill live there who don’t want tourists peering in their windows.
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Fate of Navajo, Canyon de Chelly, and Sheep Is Life Celebration on Field Trip Agenda

By Frances Madeson
Lee Moquino from Santa Clara pueblo raises his arm in protest during the annual Fiesta Entrada in Santa Fe. Courtesy Veiled Lightning / Photo: Brian Fishbine
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Pueblo Revolt of 1680 Documentary Pressures Santa Fe to Stop Annual Fiesta Entrada

By Frances Madeson
Native artist Jerry Ingram’s work is seen at the 2016 SWAIA Santa Fe Indian Market, one of the events mentioned in Santa Fe’s cultural map.
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Natives Fade In and Out of Santa Fe’s Cultural Map

By Frances Madeson
Debra Haaland runs for Congress
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Debra Haaland of Laguna Pueblo Throws Hat in Ring for US Congress

By Frances Madeson
Eva Crespin and Brandy Montano performing at Gathering of Queer Nations II in Albuquerque.
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Poetry, Pop and Punk: Gathering of Queer Nations Arts Festival Draws Overflow Crowds

By Frances Madeson
Santa Fe, Mother’s Day, Entrada, Pueblo Revolt of 1680, Popay, Native American History, New Mexico, Pueblo
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Mother’s Day Mission: Mother-Daughter Duo Team Up to Abolish Entrada

By Frances Madeson
Pascua Yaqui, Native American students, STEM, Native American education, NASA, Space Camp, Pascua Yaqui students
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Pascua Yaqui Students Heading to Space Camp

By Frances Madeson
The Wells Petroglyph Preserve on Mesa Prieta has scores of petroglyphs, like this one that the School for Advanced Research describes as a one-horn supernova.
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Petroglyphs Aplenty: Daytripping to Mesa Prieta

By Frances Madeson
Gathering of Queer Nations II
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Gathering of Queer Nations II Showcasing Musicians, Performance Art and a Drag Show

By Frances Madeson
Layli Long Soldier, Oglala Lakota, reads from her poetry collection WHEREAS (Graywolf Press, March 2017), based on a little-known, 2009 apology from the U.S. to Indigenous Peoples.
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Poet Layli Long Soldier and the Invisible U.S. Apology

By Frances Madeson
New Mexico State Capitol Building
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Will Mescalero Apache Tribe Get Their Land Back?

By Frances Madeson
All of the pots being displayed at the Poeh Cultural Center and Museum were utilitarian pots, not art objects, like this one from 1850.
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9 Tewa Ceramic Pots Lead the Way Home, 91 More to Follow

By Frances Madeson
Adelaina Othole, from Santa Clara Pueblo, in front of “Remnant” by Sonya Kelliher-Combs.
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Native Teens Debut Experimental Classical Compositions

By Frances Madeson
Mescalero Apache President Danny Brueninger: “Native representation needs to be sitting at the table with the president from a position of strength and respect.”
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Create a Cabinet Level Department for Native Affairs!

By Frances Madeson
The cast of the Nisenan-language rock opera 'Something Inside Is Broken' belts out the Creation Song.
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Nisenan Rock Opera 'Something Inside Is Broken' to Commence Three-State Tour on September 22

By Frances Madeson
Mescalero Apache Groundsman Michael Brusuelas, 15, helps his father and uncles take care of the maiden’s camps.
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Behind the Scenes at the Mescalero Apache Puberty Rites

By Frances Madeson
Shaylee Mangas, a descendant of Mangas Coloradas, participated in puberty rites of her Mescalero Apache people over the 4th of July weekend.
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Apache Descendants Hold Mangas Coloradas, Victorio and Lozen Dearly

By Frances Madeson
Mescalero Apache maiden Shaylee Mangas blesses medicine man Bo Kaydahzinne.
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Apache Puberty Rites: 6 Girls Attain Womanhood

By Frances Madeson
Freddie Kaydahzinne is a tribal museum curator and descendant of Cochise.
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Cochise’s Living Descendants Meet Generational Trauma With Pride

By Frances Madeson
Robert Geronimo, a descendant of Geronimo, works at the Inn of the Mountain Gods, the tribe’s resort and casino in Mescalero, New Mexico. He became aware of his famous ancestor when he was in kindergarten.
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Meet the Geronimos: Descendants Talk About Living With the Legacy

By Frances Madeson
This fire exploded at and consumed three dozen storage tanks on a New Mexico oil field. An investigation and environmental assessment are under way.
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Exploding Fire Consumes Oil Field in San Juan Basin; Cause Unknown

By Frances Madeson
A fracking operation. Sales of oil and gas leases in the Southwest are causing concern, especially those near ancient, sacred archaeological sites.
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‘Keep It in the Ground’ Movement Puts BLM Leasing in Its Sights

By Frances Madeson
Chaco Canyon
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Fracking Versus Ancient Astronomy in Chaco Canyon

By Frances Madeson
Poster’s created at the now shuttered Home for Women and Children in Shiprock, New Mexico.
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Addressing Shiprock’s Domestic Violence Shelter Situation

By Frances Madeson
Student presenter Fatima Garcia (Santo Domingo) presented First Lady Michelle Obama with a gift of thanks for “protecting us as your own children.”
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An Unforgettable Day with Michelle Obama at Santa Fe Indian School

By Frances Madeson
Valentino Tzigiwhaeno Rivera could dance before he could walk. By the time he was 6, he had performed in European capitals and had competed in the World Hoop Dance Competition in Arizona. He is seen here hoop dancing when he was just 6.
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Walking On at 8 Years Old: Valentino Rivera Was Born to Dance

By Frances Madeson
First Lady Michelle Obama will address 2016 graduating class at Santa Fe Indian School on May 26.
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Santa Fe Indian School Prepares for FLOTUS Visit

By Frances Madeson
Kyle Pacheco, 22, is a recent first place winner of the New Mexico SkillsUSA competition in the culinary arts category, and will represent New Mexico in the national SkillsUSA competition in Louisville, Kentucky next month. He was one of two speakers at the May 14 graduation at Santa Fe Community College.
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Foodies and Funnies: A Double Header of Native Speakers at SFCC Graduation

By Frances Madeson
In 2015, 18 medicine bags from the Portland Art Museum’s Native American collection went back to the Crow people in Montana.
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After 25 Years of NAGPRA: Moving Beyond Paralysis

By Frances Madeson
Junior Marika Trujillo (center) from Laguna Pueblo has been crowned Miss Indian University of New Mexico 2016-2017. On the left is Tia Benally, and on the right is Alysia Coriz.
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Marika Trujillo Crowned Miss Indian UNM

By Frances Madeson
Pictured are Brian Vallo, Anthony Moquino, Leigh Kuwanwisiwma, Richard Begay, and Jim Enote at “Consumption and the Market: The Paris Auctions,” the third panel in this Spring’s NAGPRA series at Indian Arts Research Center at the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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NAGPRA Fails to Stop Loss of Sacred Objects in Paris

By Frances Madeson
Rulan Tangen, artistic director of Dancing Earth Creations, a protege of Daystar’s, bows to her mentor on April 11, when Jones was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Aware at the Institute of American Indian Arts.
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Native Visionary Daystar Rosalie Jones Receives IAIA Lifetime Achievement Award

By Frances Madeson
“There are people who will perceive our life experiences as valueless...as long as you don't.”
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Justice Sotomayor Chills, Thrills and Inspires

By Frances Madeson
For the People benefit concert organizer Radmilla Cody performing traditional Navajo ballads.
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‘Albuquerque Natives Have Nation’s Worst Healthcare’: Indian Center Gets Reprieve

By Frances Madeson
Moderator T.J. Ferguson with panelists Dr. Rosita Worl, Theresa Pasqual and Mark Mitchell discuss "Community Challenges in a Post-NAGRPA Landscape."
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Grappling with the Complexity of NAGPRA

By Frances Madeson
Mary Kathryn Nagle works with actors on the script of her play “Sliver of a Full Moon,” that paints a picture of the Violence Against Women Act.
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The VAWA Play: Changing the Law, One Show at a Time

By Frances Madeson
Mary Jane Edaakie gets bread ready for customers at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology on the University of New Mexico’s Albuquerque campus.
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Frybread at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology: It’s a Family Affair

By Frances Madeson
Bottom left, Rosalita Whitehair, emergency management director for the Navajo Nation, after sandbag training with the US Army Corps of Engineers and Dineh Fire Chasers, at the Navajo Technical University, Crownpoint, New Mexico.
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Disaster Prep: Rose Whitehair Leads Navajo Nation Team as Incidents Abound

By Frances Madeson
File-The Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe Men’s Society walks to the Nibokaan Ancestral Cemetery in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, on October 12, 2012. They are carrying remains returned with the help of NAGPRA.
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The Excruciating Legacy of NAGPRA

By Frances Madeson
The evening began with a soothing prayer around the “centering table” laden with symbolic objects such as blue corn, fetishes and seashells.
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Put it in Prayer: Tewa Women United to Return to Lunar Calendar

By Frances Madeson