NMDCA News:

Join Jon Ghahate, KaWaika/A:Shiwi, Laguna/Zuni Pueblos for an online presentation, “Who Are the Pueblos? The History and Legacy of the Ancient-to-Contemporary Puebloans” as part of the Friends of History monthly lecture series.

Next month’s Friends of History First Wednesday Lecture Series from 12–1 p.m., Wednesday, July 2, features a presentation offering an analysis of the Ancestral Puebloan and Native American presence in the West, especially in the Four Corners region. Drawing on historical, cultural, and archaeological evidence surrounding US Southwest ancestral sites, emphasis is placed on reassessing former historical negative stereotypes of past and present Puebloan communities, highlighting the diversity, sophistication, and complexity of these peoples as exhibited through their culture, language and philosophy. Jon Ghahate is a Pueblo Cultural Educator and Chaco Canyon National Historical Park Tour Guide.

Friends of History, a nonprofit organization of volunteers dedicated to supporting the New Mexico History Museum, offers the public monthly programs from a diversity of speakers who are leading experts in their fields and have contributed to New Mexico’s history.