Join the La Fonda docents on Wednesday, June 17 for a complementary private tour of Santa Fe’s iconic La Fonda on the Plaza. The docents will describe the building’s rich history and its world-class art collection.

This trip and tour were taken by the Friends of Coronado Historic Site in 2015, and it was a huge success. Join us 11 years later for another fun experience!For more info and to register: https://www.coronadojemezfriends.org/field-trip-registration-form

-This is not an NMAC event.

This presentation explores the history and intergenerational impacts of Fort Lewis Indian Boarding School and how those legacies shape Fort Lewis College’s ongoing reconciliation process, emphasizing healing, accountability, and shared responsibility to Indigenous communities.

For more info: https://crowcanyon.org/programs/reconciliation-at-fort-lewis-college/

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Join us for the first annual Indigenous Foodways Festival, in partnership with edible Magazine!

The Indigenous Foodways Festival celebrates and honors the vibrant, living culinary traditions and ancestral knowledge of Indigenous peoples across the Southwest. Through storytelling, demonstration, hands-on classes, art, and shared food, the festival uplifts Indigenous voices, fostering connection, understanding, and community. Our mission is to create a space where tradition and innovation come together to showcase how Indigenous foodways sustain culture, identity, land stewardship, and future generations.

For more info: https://www.indianartsandculture.org/calendar?eventID=7223

-This is not an NMAC event.

Join local artist Mary Beth Woiccak for a 90-minute guided sketching experience at Coronado Historic site. Each session will have a different theme. Students may sign up for one session or all three. Sessions are open to all levels. Students will receive a small sketch pad, drawing pencil, an kneaded eraser to take home.

Sessions and themes are: May 23 - Plants, June 27 - Structures, July 25 - River & Mountains.

For more info: https://www.coronadojemezfriends.org/site-activities

-This is not an NMAC event.

Obsidian – volcanic glass. Mined, traded and used to produce projectile points and scrapers along with deadly weapons long before the arrival of the Europeans reveal much. For one, obsidian stone tool production and exchange exposes long-distance interactions. This presentation examines New Mexican and Arizonan obsidian artifacts using geochemical analysis that prove the obsidian came from Mesoamerica. Using lithic analysis and historical evidence, these artifacts were likely brought by Coronado’s Indios Amigos.

Sean Dolan, a professional archaeologist, has managed cultural resources at Los Alamos National Laboratory since 2014. He has a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Oklahoma with research focused on the archaeology of the American Southwest and Mexican Northwest with particular emphasis on the Mimbres Valley. He has published in Kiva, Journal of Archaeological Science Reports and American Antiquity among others.

For more info: https://www.coronadojemezfriends.org/lectures

-This is not an NMAC event.