Santa Fe's Soldier’s Monument is layered upon truths, not so evident but ones that hold a promise for how it can evolve.

I just signed the petition to remove the statue of - el Conquistador Oñate. I support this effort because I don't believe in monuments,...

OVERVIEW Every community has a unique history, including the dominant narratives that reinforce hierarchies of race, class and gender....

Prologue : The following essay was written in 1999. I was 30 years old and had not yet even imagined the professional life before me. At...

In Ocate, New Mexico, sometime between 1910 and the late 1920s, a young girl named Dora Ortiz often visited with an old woman known as...

Excerpts from “Coyote Convergence,” in Converging Streams: Art of the Hispanic and Native American Southwest © Estevan Rael-Gálvez...

I learned from an early age that wisdom sits in places, particularly those places where the stories and people have imbued it with...

Recently, I had the opportunity to watch Pixar’s new animated film Coco. Seeing the reflection of a deep, profound and beautiful heritage...

While the annual Santa Fe Fiesta has now passed, the dust it always raises never fully settles. Over the past couple of years I witnessed...

“When it’s truly alive, memory doesn’t contemplate history, it invites us to make it.” — Eduardo Galeano, Upside Down: A Primer for the...