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6 days ago | 
santafenewmexican.com | Ania Hull
The history of Judaism in New Mexico is long and complex. It starts in the 16th century, when Conversos, or Jewish people (often Sephardic) who converted to Christianity — either by force or choice just before and during the Spanish Inquisition — traveled with conquistadores and colonists first to present-day Mexico and soon after, present-day New Mexico.
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6 days ago | 
santafenewmexican.com | Ania Hull
Adrian Stevens (Northern Ute/Shoshone-Bannock/San Carlos Apache) and Sean Snyder (Diné/Southern Ute) are sitting in their design studio in Nevada, both smiling at their computer’s camera and both wearing black. The somber hue of their attires is a contrast from the colors they sport in so many photos they’ve posed for, both as designers and as dancers, in which they almost always wear the iridescent regalia they’ve designed and made themselves.
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6 days ago | 
santafenewmexican.com | Ania Hull
“We want to bring in writers who can really speak thoughtfully and in inspiring ways about these challenging times for both the country and the world: how to view them, how to deal with them, how to live in them,” says Mark Bryant, co-founder of the Santa Fe International Literary Festival and its chief curator.
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6 days ago | 
santafenewmexican.com | Ania Hull
Sage Mountainflower, or T’o Pin Povi in Tewa, is Ohkay Owingeh, Taos Pueblo, and Diné. She is a beadwork artist and the founder and designer of the Sage Mountainflower House of Fashion, and has shown collections in Paris and Milan, won awards, recently had a fashion exhibition at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque, and will be in this year’s opening runway show at the SWAIA Native Fashion Week.
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6 days ago | 
santafenewmexican.com | Ania Hull
Canada has been at the forefront of international news as of late, but locally there’s a particularly good reason to be cheering for our northern neighbors: Over the next few days, dozens of talented fashion designers will descend upon Santa Fe from all corners of Canada, representing First Nations, Métis, and Inuit communities. They’re here to showcase their new collections at this year’s double Native fashion festivities.
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1 week ago | 
santafenewmexican.com | Ania Hull
This May is a month of many firsts Indigenous events. One of them, the inaugural Native Elements Art Festival + Market, takes place during Memorial Day Weekend, opens at the Santa Fe Botanical Garden on May 21 and runs through May 26. The event benefits directly Native artists, the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) Scholarship Fund, the Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women, and the Santa Fe Botanical Garden.
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1 week ago | 
santafenewmexican.com | Ania Hull
Jacqueline Fleming is in trouble: She can’t stop adopting donkeys. That’s not to say she doesn’t have the facilities to accommodate them. Fleming has 34 rescue mustangs on her ranch outside Las Vegas, with space to spare and plenty of acres, a dog named JJ, and many, many chickens. But two years ago, when she decided to investigate adopting a donkey, Fleming could never have predicted that she’d end up so quickly with five.
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1 week ago | 
santafenewmexican.com | Ania Hull
Patricia Michaels (Taos Pueblo) has been active in the fashion industry since the 1980s, when fashion designers who happened to be Native American had few opportunities to show their work. For one, there were no fashion shows for Native designers to showcase their collections, Michaels says, and the Indian Market Michaels would participate in with her family members offered booths, dance performances, and a clothing contest, but no runway shows. Michaels took her career into her own hands.
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1 week ago | 
santafenewmexican.com | Ania Hull
It’s about to get haute in Santa Fe, as Native Fashion Week [squared] events bring a bevy of Indigenous designers and models to town in a celebration of and to amplify Native representation in the fashion industry. SWAIA and Santa Fe fashion maven Amber-Dawn Bear Robe have each attached their visions to separate showcases of artistry and innovation among established and emerging creatives, with runway shows, panels, pop-up shops, and more.
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2 weeks ago | 
santafenewmexican.com | Ania Hull
Ghost Ranch sits in the Chama Basin, snuggled between the red and yellow cliffs of the Piedra Lumbre, where the Colorado Plateau transitions into the Rio Grande Rift. To the north are the San Juan Mountains and directly south, the Jemez. Some of the red hues of the rocks and slopes around it that come to life throughout the day are due to the presence of red and brick-red siltstone. At sunset, the mountains turn into a rainbow of colors and shadows.
