School for Advanced Research — Attraction in Santa Fe

For the past two years SAR has promoted, engaged, and asserted individuals who are not Native posing as Indigenous, or misleading audiences they are American Indian. This damage is misrepresentation in American Indian scholarship, and lessons the ability for accurate histories. Many of us in the community have called to express concern, but the programming continues. Tribal peoples of the SW should be concerned with the allowance of access to their cultural items, what is being written about, and how this dismisses our own tribal scholars among our tribes. Mainly talking about the food sovereignty program, independent curator, and out of state museum (NYC) hires who have no tribal affiliation yet claim Indigenous. A distant ancestral title in parentheses does not equate identity, or authority to represent. SAR can be the change, this organization has a large reach across the field and academically, it’s unfortunate the programming takes them off path as a leading...

SAR's public offerings to our Santa Fe community are first rate and I always leave their presentations or lectures knowing more about the condition of humanity - be it historical, political or cultural. Last week's 1st annual Linda Cordell lecture, given by Dr. Ruth Van Dyke, is the...

Vast and beautiful collection of Native American arts and crafts. I wish the artifacts weren’t roped off to allow closer inspection, but if you are interested in pottery, I highly recommend...