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Manitos Spotlight

Manitos Spotlight

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Jordan is a musician and cultural activist whose work centers on the unique role that music and language can play as a pathway into intergenerational identity and creativity.  As a teenager he became interested in his family’s Ashkenazi Jewish and rural Missouri music traditions, and began his studies with master fiddlers in two distinct cultural regions in Missouri and with Yiddish language and klezmer music mentors.  His interest in the relationship between traditional, pre-capitalist cultural autonomy and subsistence agriculture led…

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Are You from Here or No? Tied to Two Places

Are You from Here or No? Tied to Two Places

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With this blog, Trisha Martinez, new member of the Manitos team, reflects upon her familial experience of Manito migration from northern New Mexico to Wyoming. In the 1930s, members of her family pursued labor opportunities out of state, to work as sheepherders, in the sugar beet fields, and on the railroad. She explains how this has influenced her own querencia, or sense of belonging, in two places. Her passion for community and culture extend into her academic work and now career, as she is blessed to honor and serve the Legacy of Los Manitos. She shares her family’s migration story in the hopes that it will inspire you to share yours.

RECONCILIATION

RECONCILIATION

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The IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) opened, Reconciliation. The exhibition responds to last year’s ending of “La Entrada” as part of the Santa Fe Fiestas and using artistic expression, adds to the ongoing dialogue of the astonishing complexity of being and belonging to this place we now call New Mexico.

The Director’s Journal

The Director’s Journal

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The Manitos Community Memory Project was recently launched with this ‘Digital Resolana’ serving as a way to generate an interest in the community toward developing a community archive. The blog also serves to document the process and progress of the overall project. In this thread, my own goal as the director of the project will be to use this space to journal short reflections about the project sharing my thoughts about the project, words, ideas, people and places. March 9,…

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Adobe church with graveyard in the foreground.
The Moon Rises Over Hernandez Again and Again

The Moon Rises Over Hernandez Again and Again

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One of the most famous and most sought after photographs in American fine-art photography is called “Moonrise, Hernandez, NM” shot by Ansel Adams in 1941. I first encountered this photograph as capital “A” art in my university art history course. I was taught to appreciate this photo from an objective perspective, to memorize all manners of facts about its medium and technique. It is silver gelatin print that stands the testament of time for many reasons, but particularly in terms…

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Reflections of Africa in New Mexico

Reflections of Africa in New Mexico

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Every village has a remarkable story and Las Trampas, named for the River of Traps that flows through it, is no different. This village in northern New Mexico was settled in 1751 and holds the legacy of the remarkable families that gathered ground, tilled it and through the centuries made community. These families had come from Santa Fe, but at least one of their progenitors had himself carried an older origin story, one that reflected a journey of thousands of…

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Recovering Ancestral DNA in Abiquiú

Recovering Ancestral DNA in Abiquiú

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As a genetic genealogist, much of my work is done behind a computer screen or amidst a stack of books. In the Fall of 2018, I was invited by Isabel W. Trujillo, the Pueblo de Abiquiú Library and Cultural Center Director, to assist her in conducting work related to a group of Abiquiú community members with long standing genealogical and historical ties to the Pueblo of Abiquiú who also identify as genízaro or genízaro descendants.