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  • La Canoa Legacy Talks: A Lie Halfway Around the World: The Carl Taylor Murder Case

    History and Literary Arts Building

    2 pm Gabriel Meléndez of the Center for Regional Studies will discuss “A Lie Halfway Around the World,” a chapter in his book, Hidden Chicano Cinema. The chapter explores the shallow mysteries and deep complexities surrounding the death of the travel-adventurer and freelance journalist Carl N. Taylor in 1936. Taylor was murdered as he readied himself to attend a gala event in Albuquerque. What appears as a set of non-sequential links between New Mexico’s chronic poverty, its religious traditions, and its reputation as an arts mecca results (more...)

  • Writing Our Lives

    NHCC-Newsletter-August-11-–-24

    6-8 pm Join us to celebrate the conclusion of our spring memoir writing workshop with a reading by Ymelda Baca, Patricia Clark, Evelyn Fernandez, María Leyba, Regina Manocchio, Steve Morrow, Elaine Reyes and Leanna Torres who will read excerpts from their memoirs in-progress. For ten weeks, these writers have been writing their lives. Come and listen to the results and celebrate our NHCC writers. To RSVP: valerie.martinez@state.nm.us.  

  • Henry Jake Foreman: “Changing Tides in Indigenous Arts and Community–Indigenous Models for Entrepreneurial Development

    NHCC-Newsletter-August-26–September-7

    11 am This talk is part of the educational programming related to People Powered: New Mexicans and Social Movements. The fourth in our People-Powered (New Mexicans in Social Movements) Series features Henry Jake Foreman.  Henry Foreman uses traditional, Indigenous models of knowledge production along with contemporary practices.  He is the founder of the Karuna Colectiva that mentors youth in Albuquerque.  Indigenous methodologies and epistemologies guide his philosophical and research approaches to working with youth and communities to promote the health of our biosphere. He recently graduated with his Masters (more...)

  • La Canoa: Mulattos of Cochiti: Caste in Spanish New Mexico

    NHCC-Newsletter-August-26–September-7

    2 pm Please join Deputy State Historian Rob Martinez, as he examines the role of racial mixing, identity, and the categorizing of humans living in Spanish Colonial New Mexico. The approach will be through the lens of the casta, or caste system. Historical research, genealogy, and DNA all converge to provide a clearer understanding of Hispano roots in New Mexico, as well as in Latino-Meso America and Hispanic Europe. Deputy State Historian Rob Martinez is a native New Mexican born and raised in Albuquerque. A graduate of (more...)

  • Alejandro Mendiaz, “Speaking Truth to Power: UndocuTalks”

    History and Literary Arts Building

    11 am This talk is part of the educational programming related to People Powered: New Mexicans and Social Movements. UndocuTalks is a podcast that was developed as a virtual space where undocumented youth can independently share news, knowledge, and culture with other undocumented youth and allies.  Alejandro Mendiaz is a co-founder of UndocuTalks and a host of the UndocuNews segment that aims to share important information with our immigrant communities in a healthy dose of digestible pieces of information that combat the constant stressful bombardment of immigration-related, sensationalized news. (more...)

  • La Canoa: The Women of Local 890 and the Empire Mine Strike

    NHCC-Newsletter-August-26–September-7

    2 pm Please join Professor Kells as she examines "embodied rhetoric" in the Local 890 chapter of the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers of Hanover, New Mexico, who staged one of the nation’s most effective groundbreaking strikes near Silver City from October 1950 to January 1952. The grievances of the Empire Zinc workers included racial discrimination in job duties and pay, toxic work environments, and inequitable power sharing between labor and management. The dramatic showdown, resulting in incarceration of forty-five women, seventeen children, and (more...)

  • Reading & Booksigning and Walk Along the Bosque with Michelle Otero, Albuquerque Poet Laureate

    NHCC-Newsletter-August-11-–-24

    6 pm: Walk Along the Bosque 7 pm: Poetry Reading Please join us for a reading by Albuquerque’s fourth (and newest) Poet Laureate, Michelle Otero. In addition, Michelle is coordinating a series of walks along the Rio Grande Bosque, “Walking with Poets,” hosted by local poets, highlighting the work of poets we love,  and raising awareness of the need to conserve and preserve our beloved Rio. The walks will lead to a bosque  poetry anthology, to be edited by Otero. "Walking With Poets" takes place on the (more...)

  • Dia de Los Muertos Art Show: “Lost Places”

    NHCC-Newsletter-August-26–September-7

    5:30 pm to 7:30 pm Join us for a special Dia de los Muertos art show. New Mexico artists were invited to create 8” x 8” works of art with poetry or text that honor a place whose absence they mourn—whether a lost region of the Amazon, Chaco Canyon, or an abuela’s kitchen. Proceeds from sales of the works support the artists and NHCC History and Literary Arts programming. Free Thank you to our Día de los Muertos presenting sponsor Western Sky Community Care and to our supporting partners Nusenda (more...)

  • Opening Reception for NM Hometown Heroes

    History and Literary Arts Building

    5:30 pm to 7:30 pm The New Mexico Hometown Heroes: Hispanic Congressional Medal of Honor Recipients exhibit is a tribute to the six Hispanic Congressional Medal of Honor recipients who have received the highest honor that the United States government bestows for acts of valor and heroism. It celebrates not only their stories of service but their connections to New Mexico: Private Joseph Martínez (WWII), Private José Valdez (WWII), Master Sergeant Alejandro Ruíz (WWII), Specialist Fourth Class Daniel Fernandez (Vietnam War), Chief Warrant Officer Louis Rocco (Vietnam War) Master Sergeant Leroy (more...)

  • La Canoa: Patriots From the Barrio

    NHCC-Newsletter-August-26–September-7

    2 pm Please join us and author Dave Gutierrez for a presentation of his book Patriots from the Barrio. Mr. Gutierrez will relate the true story of Company E 141st Infantry, the only all Mexican American U.S. Army unit in WWII. In September of 2017, Hollywood actor/producer Wilmer Valderrama obtained the film rights to the book. Dave Gutierrez is a professional researcher, historical presenter, and writer. His articles have appeared in publications including American Legion and War History Online. Recognized by both the Texas Military Forces Museum (more...)