Location: Hybrid meeting - in person at HPD office; online at zoom
Contact: Irene Rubio, irene.rubio@dca.nm.gov

“10,000 Years of Inequality: The Archaeology of Wealth Differences” lecture by archaeologist Tim A. Kohler cosponsored by the School for Advanced Research (SAR) and the New Mexico History Museum at the Museum, 113 Lincoln Ave., Santa Fe, New Mexico

2-3:30 pm. $3 to $10.

This year's Linda S. Cordell Lecture features Washington State University Regents Professor Emeritus of Archaeology and Evolutionary Anthropology Tim Kohler, who asks how and why inequality developed. To answer, he draws on new, unpublished data from the Global Dynamics of Inequality project, of which he is co-director. Dr. Kohler will explain why inequality has long been a critical social issue and why it persists. His presentation will include an examination of the pre-Hispanic Southwest, including Chaco Canyon.

To register go to https://sarweb.org/date/10000-years-of-inequality-tim-a-kohler/. For more information contact SAR at 505-954-7200 or info@sarsf.org.

-This is not an NMAC event.

The 2024 ASNM Annual Meeting will be hosted by the Site Steward Foundation (SSF) in Las Vegas, NM at the Plaza Hotel on May 3-5, 2024. The 2024 ASNM annual volume honoree, John Roney, will be officially honored at the meeting. Presentations will focus on the archaeology of northeastern New Mexico and Plains-Pueblo interactions. Bandelier Lecture and other details TBA shortly.

For more info:
https://archaeologicalsocietynm.org/events/asnm-annual-meeting-2024/

-This is not an NMAC event.

Job ID: 142965

Salary

$19.24 - $30.78 Hourly

$40,018 - $64,029 Annually

This position is a Pay Band 60

Posting Details
THIS POSTING WILL BE USED FOR ONGOING RECRUITMENT AND MAY CLOSE AT ANY TIME. APPLICANT LISTS MAY BE SCREENED MORE THAN ONCE.

Please visit us at https://nmhistoricsites.org

Created in 1978 by the New Mexico Legislature, the Department of Cultural Affairs represents New Mexico's dedication to preserving and celebrating the cultural integrity and diversity of our state. The Department oversees a broad range of New Mexico's arts and cultural heritage agencies. These include 15 divisions representing a variety of programs and services.

The New Mexico Historic Sites Department is the place where history and culture come alive. At Los Luceros, nearly 1000 years of history is represented and interpreted through artifacts, historic buildings, and landscapes.

Why does the job exist?
This position is integral to the customer service and educational missions of Los Luceros and New Mexico Historic Sites.

To apply click here:
https://careers.share.nm.gov/psc/hprdcg/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM_FL.HRS_CG_SEARCH_FL.GBL?Page=HRS_APP_SCHJOB_FL&FOCUS=Applicant

-This is not an NMAC position.

The 2024 ASNM Annual Meeting will be hosted by the Site Steward Foundation (SSF) in Las Vegas, NM at the Plaza Hotel on May 3-5, 2024. The 2024 ASNM annual volume honoree, John Roney, will be officially honored at the meeting. Presentations will focus on the archaeology of northeastern New Mexico and Plains-Pueblo interactions. Bandelier Lecture and other details TBA shortly.

For more info:
https://archaeologicalsocietynm.org/events/asnm-annual-meeting-2024/

-This is not an NMAC event.

The Bernalillo Indian Arts Festival (BIAF) is an annual Indian Art Market presented by Authentic Native Arts Association, Inc. This Native American event is a traditional festival with classification standards of excellence. A true Indian Market, it features 200 juried artists, and there is a performance on the main stage starting each hour.

Contact BIAF for hours. Free to browse.
For more information contact Sara Chadwick at 505-867-9667 or bernalilloindianfestival@gmail.com.

-This is not an NMAC event.

“Friends of Hubbell Native Arts Auction” sponsored by Friends of Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site.

Preview 9-11:30 am, auction 12-4 pm. Free to attend and free parking.

Approximately 350 items will be auctioned in this Friends of Hubbell Trading Post semiannual event that generates funds for Native American college scholarships. The Friends of Hubbell organization contributes to the management objectives of the National Park Service at Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site, supports revitalization of Native American arts and crafts, and provides college scholarships to Navajo, Hopi, Zuni, Acoma, Laguna, and Southern Ute Nation students. The Gallup Community Center is most easily accessed from I-40 Exit 22. A special room rate is available at La Quinta Inn in Gallup when you mention FoH.

* This is not an NMAC event. For more information visit www.friendsorhubbell.org or email friendsofhubbellauction@gmail.com.

When: Saturday, May 4, 2024 -
3:00pm to 5:00pm
Where: Maxwell Museum
Cost: Free & Open to All
Presenter/s: Dr. Jennifer Denetdale

*Registration on our Eventbrite page here is not required but appreciated *

The Maxwell Museum of Anthropology has been working with UNM Professor and Chair of American Studies, Dr. Jennifer Nez Denetdale (Diné), and Museum Anthropologist and Independent Curator, Lillia McEnaney, on an upcoming exhibit that uses the photograph as a site of inquiry. Join us for its Opening Reception in which Dr. Denetdale will give a brief lecture from 3:30-4 pm, and refreshments will be provided.

As co-curators of Nothing Left for Me: Federal Policy and the Photography of Milton Snow in Diné Bikéyah, Dr. Denetdale and McEnaney’s exhibit examines the impact of U.S. Indian Commissioner John Collier’s brutal Navajo Livestock Reduction Program on Diné communities and homelands.

Imposed upon Navajo people in the 1930s, this federal program proposed to eliminate over half of Diné livestock herds. Against the backdrop of the Dust Bowl and the Hoover Dam, livestock reduction was an extreme response to reports of over-grazing throughout Diné Bikéyah, the Navajo homeland. Collier’s policies were carried out in ignorance of Diné land management practices and community needs. Imprisoned for resisting, Diné people were forced to watch their livelihoods decimated as their sacred animals were taken from them. Livestock reduction resulted in widespread, harmful, and long-term sociocultural, environmental, economic, and political changes throughout Diné Bikéyah.

Diné communities resisted livestock reduction policies. They saw their domestic animals as gifts from the Holy People, who offered them as the foundation for the Diné way of life. As a result of Collier’s tool of colonial control, Navajo people were no longer able to care for their land, their communities, and their herds in the ways they always had. In reflecting on this period, Marilyn Help (Diné) says, “You people...are heartless. You have now killed me. You have cut off my arms. You have cut off my legs. You have taken my head off. There is nothing left for me.”

Hired by the Navajo Service in 1937, non-Native photographer Milton Snow (1905–1986) was instructed to document the the federal government’s supposedly well-intentioned program to address “the Navajo problem.” Over the course of twenty years, Snow produced thousands of images of Diné people, homes, and landscapes, all of which were intended to provide proof that federal technologies were in fact working to “rehabilitate” Navajo lands and lives. Instead, Snow’s photographs show us radically harmed and altered communities, landscapes, and homes. We see the construction of dams, mines, and imposed grazing and agricultural practices; and newly formed political, educational, and socioeconomic organizations, all of which point to the pervasive, oppressive nature of American colonial administration.

By placing Snow’s images in conversation with a selection of archival documents and contemporary photographs, this exhibition foregrounds Diné perspectives on the intersecting and ongoing legacies of both photography and American colonialism.

-This is not an NMAC event.

The 2024 ASNM Annual Meeting will be hosted by the Site Steward Foundation (SSF) in Las Vegas, NM at the Plaza Hotel on May 3-5, 2024. The 2024 ASNM annual volume honoree, John Roney, will be officially honored at the meeting. Presentations will focus on the archaeology of northeastern New Mexico and Plains-Pueblo interactions. Bandelier Lecture and other details TBA shortly.

For more info:
https://archaeologicalsocietynm.org/events/asnm-annual-meeting-2024/

-This is not an NMAC event.

The Bernalillo Indian Arts Festival (BIAF) is an annual Indian Art Market presented by Authentic Native Arts Association, Inc. This Native American event is a traditional festival with classification standards of excellence. A true Indian Market, it features 200 juried artists, and there is a performance on the main stage starting each hour.

Contact BIAF for hours. Free to browse.
For more information contact Sara Chadwick at 505-867-9667 or bernalilloindianfestival@gmail.com.

-This is not an NMAC event.

First Sundays, from Sunrise to Sunset, starting May 5: "Dawn-to-Dusk" Activities at Coronado Historic Site

Make this a monthly visit to enjoy the variety of fun things for families that are planned throughout the day, with special programs offered each afternoon.

Sunday May 5, 2 - 4 p.m. - Birds from Wildlife Rescue

Contact Jessica Coyle, 505-525-1340, jessica.coyle@dca.nm.gov

“SMRC Spring 2024 New Mexico Tour” sponsored by Southwestern Mission Research Center, Tucson

7:30 am Wednesday-4:30 pm Monday. $1,495 per person, double occupancy ($1,895 single) includes motor coach transportation, all accommodations, venue fees, honorariums, most meals, snacks and beverages.

This tour with SMRC’s knowledgeable scholars as guides departs via motor coach from Tucson and focuses on historic sites important in central New Mexico’s Spanish colonial period. It will visit Las Cruces, Old Mesilla, Socorro, the Salinas missions (Abó, Gran Quivira, and Quarai), Albuquerque’s Old Town, El Rancho de Las Golondrinas, the Santa Fe Plaza and surroundings, Pecos National Historical Park, San Miguel del Vado, and Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in Villanueva. It also includes stops at New Mexico State University’s Chile Pepper Institute and, in Mesilla, the Farmer’s Market, the Rio Grande Winery (including wine tasting), a margarita party at La Posta.

Registration and final payment due April 1st. For more information contact Monica Young at 520-621-6278 or mzyoung@arizona.edu.

“SMRC Spring 2024 New Mexico Tour” sponsored by Southwestern Mission Research Center, Tucson

7:30 am Wednesday-4:30 pm Monday. $1,495 per person, double occupancy ($1,895 single) includes motor coach transportation, all accommodations, venue fees, honorariums, most meals, snacks and beverages.

This tour with SMRC’s knowledgeable scholars as guides departs via motor coach from Tucson and focuses on historic sites important in central New Mexico’s Spanish colonial period. It will visit Las Cruces, Old Mesilla, Socorro, the Salinas missions (Abó, Gran Quivira, and Quarai), Albuquerque’s Old Town, El Rancho de Las Golondrinas, the Santa Fe Plaza and surroundings, Pecos National Historical Park, San Miguel del Vado, and Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in Villanueva. It also includes stops at New Mexico State University’s Chile Pepper Institute and, in Mesilla, the Farmer’s Market, the Rio Grande Winery (including wine tasting), a margarita party at La Posta.

Registration and final payment due April 1st. For more information contact Monica Young at 520-621-6278 or mzyoung@arizona.edu.

The Jornada Research Institute is pleased to offer its annual 2024 two-day training class on the looting and vandalism of archaeological sites. The class will be offered on May 14th and 15th at the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Office in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It will combine classroom instruction and field applications covering major legislation (including the Archaeological Resources Protection Act), legal and criminal frameworks, case studies and damage assessment procedures. This class counts toward the New Mexico Historic Preservation Division’s continuing education requirements on an hour-to-hour basis.

Fee: 190.00 (180.00 for JRI members and students).
Deadline: Registration forms and payment must be received by Thursday, May 9th.
Contact info: jefferyhanson64@gmail.com

-This is not an NMAC event.

“SMRC Spring 2024 New Mexico Tour” sponsored by Southwestern Mission Research Center, Tucson

7:30 am Wednesday-4:30 pm Monday. $1,495 per person, double occupancy ($1,895 single) includes motor coach transportation, all accommodations, venue fees, honorariums, most meals, snacks and beverages.

This tour with SMRC’s knowledgeable scholars as guides departs via motor coach from Tucson and focuses on historic sites important in central New Mexico’s Spanish colonial period. It will visit Las Cruces, Old Mesilla, Socorro, the Salinas missions (Abó, Gran Quivira, and Quarai), Albuquerque’s Old Town, El Rancho de Las Golondrinas, the Santa Fe Plaza and surroundings, Pecos National Historical Park, San Miguel del Vado, and Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in Villanueva. It also includes stops at New Mexico State University’s Chile Pepper Institute and, in Mesilla, the Farmer’s Market, the Rio Grande Winery (including wine tasting), a margarita party at La Posta.

Registration and final payment due April 1st. For more information contact Monica Young at 520-621-6278 or mzyoung@arizona.edu.

“SMRC Spring 2024 New Mexico Tour” sponsored by Southwestern Mission Research Center, Tucson

7:30 am Wednesday-4:30 pm Monday. $1,495 per person, double occupancy ($1,895 single) includes motor coach transportation, all accommodations, venue fees, honorariums, most meals, snacks and beverages.

This tour with SMRC’s knowledgeable scholars as guides departs via motor coach from Tucson and focuses on historic sites important in central New Mexico’s Spanish colonial period. It will visit Las Cruces, Old Mesilla, Socorro, the Salinas missions (Abó, Gran Quivira, and Quarai), Albuquerque’s Old Town, El Rancho de Las Golondrinas, the Santa Fe Plaza and surroundings, Pecos National Historical Park, San Miguel del Vado, and Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in Villanueva. It also includes stops at New Mexico State University’s Chile Pepper Institute and, in Mesilla, the Farmer’s Market, the Rio Grande Winery (including wine tasting), a margarita party at La Posta.

Registration and final payment due April 1st. For more information contact Monica Young at 520-621-6278 or mzyoung@arizona.edu.

“SMRC Spring 2024 New Mexico Tour” sponsored by Southwestern Mission Research Center, Tucson

7:30 am Wednesday-4:30 pm Monday. $1,495 per person, double occupancy ($1,895 single) includes motor coach transportation, all accommodations, venue fees, honorariums, most meals, snacks and beverages.

This tour with SMRC’s knowledgeable scholars as guides departs via motor coach from Tucson and focuses on historic sites important in central New Mexico’s Spanish colonial period. It will visit Las Cruces, Old Mesilla, Socorro, the Salinas missions (Abó, Gran Quivira, and Quarai), Albuquerque’s Old Town, El Rancho de Las Golondrinas, the Santa Fe Plaza and surroundings, Pecos National Historical Park, San Miguel del Vado, and Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in Villanueva. It also includes stops at New Mexico State University’s Chile Pepper Institute and, in Mesilla, the Farmer’s Market, the Rio Grande Winery (including wine tasting), a margarita party at La Posta.

Registration and final payment due April 1st. For more information contact Monica Young at 520-621-6278 or mzyoung@arizona.edu.

Second Sundays. This event will focus on activities related to different ways people in the ancient past viewed the day and night sky. There will be presentations on ancient astronomy and modern-day astronomy to explain how people of the past interpreted the sky and how modern-day astronomy can tell what is out there. It will also include modern-day activities like viewing the sky using a telescope.

Starting in June, this event can combine with the Star Parties,
For more information, contact: marlon.magdalena@dca.nm.gov, 505-829-3530

“SMRC Spring 2024 New Mexico Tour” sponsored by Southwestern Mission Research Center, Tucson

7:30 am Wednesday-4:30 pm Monday. $1,495 per person, double occupancy ($1,895 single) includes motor coach transportation, all accommodations, venue fees, honorariums, most meals, snacks and beverages.

This tour with SMRC’s knowledgeable scholars as guides departs via motor coach from Tucson and focuses on historic sites important in central New Mexico’s Spanish colonial period. It will visit Las Cruces, Old Mesilla, Socorro, the Salinas missions (Abó, Gran Quivira, and Quarai), Albuquerque’s Old Town, El Rancho de Las Golondrinas, the Santa Fe Plaza and surroundings, Pecos National Historical Park, San Miguel del Vado, and Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in Villanueva. It also includes stops at New Mexico State University’s Chile Pepper Institute and, in Mesilla, the Farmer’s Market, the Rio Grande Winery (including wine tasting), a margarita party at La Posta.

Registration and final payment due April 1st. For more information contact Monica Young at 520-621-6278 or mzyoung@arizona.edu.

The Jornada Research Institute is pleased to offer its annual 2024 two-day training class on the looting and vandalism of archaeological sites. The class will be offered on May 14th and 15th at the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Office in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It will combine classroom instruction and field applications covering major legislation (including the Archaeological Resources Protection Act), legal and criminal frameworks, case studies and damage assessment procedures. This class counts toward the New Mexico Historic Preservation Division’s continuing education requirements on an hour-to-hour basis.

Fee: 190.00 (180.00 for JRI members and students)
Deadline: Registration forms and payment must be received by Thursday, May 9th
Contact info: jefferyhanson64@gmail.com

The Jornada Research Institute is pleased to offer its annual 2024 two-day training class on the looting and vandalism of archaeological sites. The class will be offered on May 14th and 15th at the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Office in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It will combine classroom instruction and field applications covering major legislation (including the Archaeological Resources Protection Act), legal and criminal frameworks, case studies and damage assessment procedures. This class counts toward the New Mexico Historic Preservation Division’s continuing education requirements on an hour-to-hour basis.

Fee: 190.00 (180.00 for JRI members and students)
Deadline: Registration forms and payment must be received by Thursday, May 9th
Contact info: jefferyhanson64@gmail.com

“ARARA 2024 Conference” sponsored by the American Rock Art Research Association (ARARA) at the Courtyard Marriott, 560 Scott Ave., Farmington, New Mexico*

Times TBA. $95 per member; discounts for students, children, and Native American attendees. Virtual option $75 per household.

For this 50th anniversary conference ARARA returns to the New Mexico city where its first one was held in 1974: Farmington, near the “four corners” where New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, and Arizona come together. Farmington is surrounded by a culturally significant landscape with abundant rock imagery and other archaeological sites including Chaco Canyon, Mesa Verde, Canyon of the Ancients, and Canyon de Chelly. The Aztec and Salmon ruins are nearby in the San Juan Valley and the Ute Mountain Ute, Southern Ute, Jicarilla Apache, and Navajo Nations surround Farmington. A special preconference trip to the Mesa Prieta petroglyphs site near Velarde, NM, is planned for Thursday May 16. There are many field trip options to choose from on Friday and Monday, and a reception, speakers, and awards on Friday evening. Saturday features presentations and an evening reception at San Juan County’s Salmon Ruins Museum, and a members meeting, presentations, and banquet are on tap for Sunday. And for the first time ARARA will offer a virtual-only registration option so people who choose not to travel to Farmington can watch the Saturday and Sunday daytime presentations and participate in the member meeting.

For more information visit https://arara.wildapricot.org/Conference-Info-2024-Details#Registration. To register for the virtual conference go to https://arara.wildapricot.org/event-5646592. The conference is open to ARARA members only – to join, click here.

-This is not an NMAC conference.

“ARARA 2024 Conference” sponsored by the American Rock Art Research Association (ARARA) at the Courtyard Marriott, 560 Scott Ave., Farmington, New Mexico*

Times TBA. $95 per member; discounts for students, children, and Native American attendees. Virtual option $75 per household.

For this 50th anniversary conference ARARA returns to the New Mexico city where its first one was held in 1974: Farmington, near the “four corners” where New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, and Arizona come together. Farmington is surrounded by a culturally significant landscape with abundant rock imagery and other archaeological sites including Chaco Canyon, Mesa Verde, Canyon of the Ancients, and Canyon de Chelly. The Aztec and Salmon ruins are nearby in the San Juan Valley and the Ute Mountain Ute, Southern Ute, Jicarilla Apache, and Navajo Nations surround Farmington. A special preconference trip to the Mesa Prieta petroglyphs site near Velarde, NM, is planned for Thursday May 16. There are many field trip options to choose from on Friday and Monday, and a reception, speakers, and awards on Friday evening. Saturday features presentations and an evening reception at San Juan County’s Salmon Ruins Museum, and a members meeting, presentations, and banquet are on tap for Sunday. And for the first time ARARA will offer a virtual-only registration option so people who choose not to travel to Farmington can watch the Saturday and Sunday daytime presentations and participate in the member meeting.

For more information visit https://arara.wildapricot.org/Conference-Info-2024-Details#Registration. To register for the virtual conference go to https://arara.wildapricot.org/event-5646592. The conference is open to ARARA members only – to join, click here.

-This is not an NMAC conference.

“ARARA 2024 Conference” sponsored by the American Rock Art Research Association (ARARA) at the Courtyard Marriott, 560 Scott Ave., Farmington, New Mexico*

Times TBA. $95 per member; discounts for students, children, and Native American attendees. Virtual option $75 per household.

For this 50th anniversary conference ARARA returns to the New Mexico city where its first one was held in 1974: Farmington, near the “four corners” where New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, and Arizona come together. Farmington is surrounded by a culturally significant landscape with abundant rock imagery and other archaeological sites including Chaco Canyon, Mesa Verde, Canyon of the Ancients, and Canyon de Chelly. The Aztec and Salmon ruins are nearby in the San Juan Valley and the Ute Mountain Ute, Southern Ute, Jicarilla Apache, and Navajo Nations surround Farmington. A special preconference trip to the Mesa Prieta petroglyphs site near Velarde, NM, is planned for Thursday May 16. There are many field trip options to choose from on Friday and Monday, and a reception, speakers, and awards on Friday evening. Saturday features presentations and an evening reception at San Juan County’s Salmon Ruins Museum, and a members meeting, presentations, and banquet are on tap for Sunday. And for the first time ARARA will offer a virtual-only registration option so people who choose not to travel to Farmington can watch the Saturday and Sunday daytime presentations and participate in the member meeting.

For more information visit https://arara.wildapricot.org/Conference-Info-2024-Details#Registration. To register for the virtual conference go to https://arara.wildapricot.org/event-5646592. The conference is open to ARARA members only – to join, click here.

-This is not an NMAC conference.

“ARARA 2024 Conference” sponsored by the American Rock Art Research Association (ARARA) at the Courtyard Marriott, 560 Scott Ave., Farmington, New Mexico*

Times TBA. $95 per member; discounts for students, children, and Native American attendees. Virtual option $75 per household.

For this 50th anniversary conference ARARA returns to the New Mexico city where its first one was held in 1974: Farmington, near the “four corners” where New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, and Arizona come together. Farmington is surrounded by a culturally significant landscape with abundant rock imagery and other archaeological sites including Chaco Canyon, Mesa Verde, Canyon of the Ancients, and Canyon de Chelly. The Aztec and Salmon ruins are nearby in the San Juan Valley and the Ute Mountain Ute, Southern Ute, Jicarilla Apache, and Navajo Nations surround Farmington. A special preconference trip to the Mesa Prieta petroglyphs site near Velarde, NM, is planned for Thursday May 16. There are many field trip options to choose from on Friday and Monday, and a reception, speakers, and awards on Friday evening. Saturday features presentations and an evening reception at San Juan County’s Salmon Ruins Museum, and a members meeting, presentations, and banquet are on tap for Sunday. And for the first time ARARA will offer a virtual-only registration option so people who choose not to travel to Farmington can watch the Saturday and Sunday daytime presentations and participate in the member meeting.

For more information visit https://arara.wildapricot.org/Conference-Info-2024-Details#Registration. To register for the virtual conference go to https://arara.wildapricot.org/event-5646592. The conference is open to ARARA members only – to join, click here.

-This is not an NMAC conference.

Third Sundays, begin April 21, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. - Fun at Giusewa
This series of fun days begin in April. Explore Pueblo life through related hands-on activities; cooking, dancing, art demonstrations, and visiting with local artists while learning some of the history of Guisewa.
Contact Brenda Tafoya, Interpretive Ranger to find out more: brenda.tafoya@dca/nm.gov, 505-829-3530

“ARARA 2024 Conference” sponsored by the American Rock Art Research Association (ARARA) at the Courtyard Marriott, 560 Scott Ave., Farmington, New Mexico*

Times TBA. $95 per member; discounts for students, children, and Native American attendees. Virtual option $75 per household.

For this 50th anniversary conference ARARA returns to the New Mexico city where its first one was held in 1974: Farmington, near the “four corners” where New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, and Arizona come together. Farmington is surrounded by a culturally significant landscape with abundant rock imagery and other archaeological sites including Chaco Canyon, Mesa Verde, Canyon of the Ancients, and Canyon de Chelly. The Aztec and Salmon ruins are nearby in the San Juan Valley and the Ute Mountain Ute, Southern Ute, Jicarilla Apache, and Navajo Nations surround Farmington. A special preconference trip to the Mesa Prieta petroglyphs site near Velarde, NM, is planned for Thursday May 16. There are many field trip options to choose from on Friday and Monday, and a reception, speakers, and awards on Friday evening. Saturday features presentations and an evening reception at San Juan County’s Salmon Ruins Museum, and a members meeting, presentations, and banquet are on tap for Sunday. And for the first time ARARA will offer a virtual-only registration option so people who choose not to travel to Farmington can watch the Saturday and Sunday daytime presentations and participate in the member meeting.

For more information visit https://arara.wildapricot.org/Conference-Info-2024-Details#Registration. To register for the virtual conference go to https://arara.wildapricot.org/event-5646592. The conference is open to ARARA members only – to join, click here.

-This is not an NMAC conference.