2024
24
Oct
Jemez Pueblo to Secure Right to Use Lands in Valles Caldera
Dear Friends,
I didn’t expect to be thinking or writing about fences this week, but such is the nature of our work and conversations at Archaeology Southwest!
Last week, Vice President of Preservation and Collaboration John Welch traveled to Mattocks Pueblo in the Mimbres Valley of southwest...
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2022
26
Apr
Tunnel Fire Swept through Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument
Dear Friends,
I’m in the field this morning, doing some filming in the few hours before the temperatures in the Great Bend of the Gila reach triple digits, so I have to keep this short.
In this week following Earth Day, when so much of the news is about war and climate change impacts, I am g...
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2021
30
Nov
Secretary Haaland, Tribal Leaders Celebrate Chaco Protections
Dear Friends,
It was wonderful to spend Thanksgiving in Pennsylvania with my daughter and my grandkids. It’s also good to be back in Tucson.
My travels really brought home that there is a lot of change going on among professionals and colleagues across the nation. New job prospects are pro...
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2021
03
Aug
Indigenous Leaders Call for Land Protections as Totem Pole Arrives in D.C.
Dear Friends,
Last week I glibly noted that I was journeying to the hot, dry landscape of the lower Colorado River to achieve balance—a temperature balance—in my life. (The week before I’d been enjoying cool ocean breezes in San Diego.)
This week I can earnestly report that the incinerat...
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