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Native art goes avant-garde at new market George Alexander of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation in Oklahoma paints inside the Santa Fe Farmers Market Pavilion on Thursday.
Inaugural Indigenous Fine Art Market kicks off at Railyard By Phaedra Haywood The New Mexican
Cheerleaders sporting Hopi-maiden hair coils do the splits in a painting on display at Frank Buffalo Hyde’s booth. Painter Ishkoten Dougi offers 3-D glasses to view his work, including an image of two women in traditional Native
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attire hunkered down in the midst of skyscrapers. And nearby, 13-year-old Adelena Tsosie’s anime-influenced drawings of pop-culture icons Bob Dylan and Kurt Cobain are displayed alongside marble and limestone sculptures by her father, Robert Dale Tsosie. This is the Indigenous Fine
Art Market, which opened Thursday. It’s not your grandmother’s Native art market. Not that the market doesn’t include plenty of fine examples of weaving, pottery and jewelry. But there is an avant-garde sensibility to the work at this new market — which emerged
Please see MARKET, Page A-8
Rio Arriba sheriff loses law certificate The state strips Tommy Rodella of his right to carry a gun, drive a patrol car or make arrests. PAGE B-1
Allergy season hits earlier and harder A wet summer is to blame. PAGE B-1
CDC: N.M. woman does not have Ebola Health officials say tests for the virus came back negative. PAGE B-1
A tragedy unobserved As the 150th anniversary of the Long Walk nears, Navajos are divided on whether marches to captivity should be commemorated
Today inside Pasatiempo The ironically titled Souvenir of New Mexico photo album features rare images collected by a U.S. Army officer of Mexican politicians, U.S. soldiers and Navajo and Apache people during their captivity in the Bosque Redondo at Fort Sumner, N.M., in 1866. See the complete photo essay at santafenewmexican/pasatiempo.
Report says N.M. comes up short in cancer fight State meets just 2 of 12 criteria deemed crucial by American Cancer Society By Patrick Malone The New Mexican
Navajos are held captive under guard at Fort Sumner in the 1860s. COURTESY PALACE OF THE GOVERNORS PHOTO ARCHIVE NEGATIVE NO. 028534
By Anne Constable The New Mexican
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national tragedy like 9/11 or Pearl Harbor or the Battle of Gettysburg prompts grieving people to gather for public memorial services, followed by weeks of mourning and ultimately, museums and monuments commemorating the lives of the fallen. But another seminal tragedy in U.S. history
will go virtually unnoticed this year: the 150th anniversary of the Long Walk, the forced exile of thousands of Navajos from their homelands in what is now Arizona and New Mexico to a forlorn encampment at Bosque Redondo in the Pecos River Valley. They were held there at gunpoint by the U.S. Army. Hundreds died en route and during captivity from starvation and exposure, as well as disease. Yet no known official observations are planned
by the Navajo Nation to mark one of the most horrific chapters in American and tribal history. In 1968, the Navajos held a yearlong observance of the 100th anniversary of their ancestors’ return from Bosque Redondo. And some of them attended the dedication of the Bosque Redondo Memorial at the Fort Sumner State Monument in 2005.
Please see WALK, Page A-4
Mayor forms cabinet to improve services for children and families Group designed to help ‘align’ funds with organizations By Daniel J. Chacón The New Mexican
Mayor Javier Gonzales speaks with Lindsey Gomez, 2, before announcing the creation of a Children, Youth and Families Community Cabinet that will be led by the mayor. DANIEL J. CHACÓN/THE NEW MEXICAN
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Mayor Javier Gonzales, who made education and collaboration key platforms of his campaign, announced Thursday the creation of a Children, Youth and Families Commu-
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nity Cabinet to align financial resources with a wide array of organizations that serve local kids and young adults. The mayor’s initiative won’t have any fiscal impact on city government. But to help meet the cabinet’s objectives, Gonzales said, the effort will set priorities for city commissions that award hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants every year. The effort won’t be limited to City Hall.
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The goal is to “align all the funders and organizations that play a role in enhancing the lives of every child and individual in our community from the ages of zero to 24 in this focus,” Gonzales said during a morning news briefing at the Kids Campus Child Care Center at Santa Fe Community College, as a handful of children were propped nearby.
Please see MAYOR, Page A-4
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New Mexico rates poorly in adopting policies that advance the prevention and treatment of cancer, according to a report released Thursday by the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network. An estimated 10,210 residents of the state will be diagnosed with the disease this year, and 3,600 will die from it, according to the American Cancer Society. But the Land of Enchantment is not alone in losing the war against cancer. Just one state — Massachusetts — achieved a passing grade by meeting nine of the American Cancer Society’s 12 policy expectations. Forty states, including New Mexico, met four or less of the society’s objectives. The report, “How Do You Measure Up? A Progress Report on State Legislative Activity to Reduce Cancer Incidence and Mortality,” evaluated each state’s action on crucial steps to fight cancer. The report found New Mexico measured up to benchmarks in only two of the 12 measured areas, according to a statement released by the American Cancer Society. The assessment graded states on the amount of funds they spend on early detection programs targeting breast and cervical cancers, on whether they have restrictions on tanning devices for minors, and on
Please see CANCER, Page A-8
Obituaries
Storms possible. High 73, low 51.
Patricia Ann McFate, Santa Fe, Aug. 16 Dana Lyn Merrell, Aug. 17 Anthony (Tony) Joseph Pasquierllo, 61, Santa Fe, Aug. 20
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PICTURED: Allan Houser teaching sculpture at IAIA, c. 1972. Photograph courtesy of IAIA Archives, Santa Fe.