In the fall of 2020, Questa Creative Council board members invited Costilla native son and accomplished musician, Chris Arellano to create and lead a project exploring musical traditions in Northern NM and Southern CO. The project was spurred on by community members’ desire for more cultural sharing, honoring, celebrating, preserving and perpetuating of beloved local religious and secular music traditions. The project began with this question: How has musical expression in its many forms shaped the culture and people of…
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Hello my name is Gabriel Meléndez and I am the author of the Book of Archives and Other Stories from the Mora Valley published in 2017 by the University of Oklahoma Press. It is my pleasure to read an excerpt from the book for the Manitos Community Memory Project and to post both the recording and these selections in English and Spanish that come from the last story in the book called “The Ante, Six Bets on the Infinte/El Alce,…
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Join the NMAA for a gathering to discuss mega-drought and the climate crisis. Community leaders will share how they are responding through ancestral wisdom, collaboration, and fierce dedication toour communities.
TONIGHT Tuesday May 18th from 6:00-8:00 pm
Online using Zoom OR phone!
This PART ONE event will include an overview of recent drought monitor and climate data and sessions on water sharing practices within and between acequias.
The Manitos Community Memory Project hosts the third session in a monthly open symposium on what it means to build a community archive.
The Taos County Historical Society Presents: Reflections on Three Trails The Camino Real, the Santa Fe Trail and the Old Spanish Trail are a significant part of New Mexico and Taos history. The Camino Real was extended northward out of New Spain in 1598 by Juan de Onate. Rick Henrick’s research on the Camino Real focuses upon the period of the Reconquest 1692-1693 through the papers of Governor Diego de Vargas. The advent of Mexican Independence in 1821 coincided with…
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Decolonization, restorative justice, and intersectionality, what do these terms mean and how are they structurally integrated in the building a community archive? Jon Voss of Shift Collective will explore how we can center the needs of community-based archives in the broader global context of description and discovery. This conversation will introduce two efforts in particular that are underway and consider how community-based archives use subject headings and descriptive language, or may or may not want to participate in networked finding…
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The Manitos Project is fortunate to have a found an academic collaborator in the person of Dr. Eric Romero, Manito scholar, Professor of Languages and Culture and Director of Native American Hispanic Studies at New Mexico Highlands University. Born, as he would tell you, out of the Manitos earth of southern Colorado, Dr. Romero has woven the threads of a rigorous formal academic training with those of the lived practical knowledge of a someone who knows how to work the land. Recently Dr. Romero and NMHU President, Dr. Sam Minner, began working together to bring the Matanza ( what might be called a pig roasting,…
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Please RSVP to wetfuturestudio@gmail.com , for the link and password to this Zoom event. If you would like to be added to the email list for future Manitos Project events, please add a note saying so, or send a request to the address above. Thank you and we look forward to seeing you there!
A lunchtime introduction to the Manitos Project’s exciting plans for the next two years and to give everyone a chance to meet new Team Manitos partners and catch up with the Phase 1 team.
Event will take place on Zoom, Friday January 29th, 2021, 12pm – 130pm
https://nmhu.zoom.us/my/miriamlanger
RSVP: santafemimi@gmail.com
This workshop will connect communities with acequia research to help mayordomos, commissioners, and parciantes understand scientific results and real-world implications. Co-author/researchers from NMSU, UNM, and Sandia Labs will discuss acequias in terms of hydrology, sociology, anthropology, range science, system dynamics, and more.
Including question and answer sessions and a community-oriented discussion about future acequia research potentials.
