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Education & History: KCET Gathering Medicine
Indigenous peoples in California relied on traditional gathering to provide for all of their food and medicinal needs. California’s landscapes produce hundreds of indigenous plant species that have...
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Native Eatery Spotlight: Indigikitchen
INDIGIKITCHEN Indigikitchen, a portmanteau of Indigenous, digital, and kitchen, is an online cooking show dedicated to re-indigenizing our diets using digital media. Using foods native to their...
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Chef Spotlight: Tiffany Deer
CHEF TIFFANY DEER Tiffany Wahsontiiostha Deer is a professional chef with a love of food and flavor, and a passion for cooking healthy and easy to prepare meals at home. “In my mind, there are two...
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Wake Up Call’s MK Mendoza speaks with Executive Director, Kim Peone
Indigenous Resilience Transforms Into Success and Poetic Justice at Virtual Santa Fe Indian Market By MK MENDOZA • OCT 22, 2020 Wake Up Call’s MK Mendoza speaks with Executive Director of SWAIA, Kim...
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2020 Participating Winter Indian Market Artists Basketry | Vivian Cottrell Kelly Church Beadwork/Quillwork | Deana Ward Francisco Bailon Lester Berryhill Marvin Gabaldon Summer Fairchild Peters LeJeune...
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SWAIA Artist Spotlight: Eugene Tapahe Art Heals, The Jingle Dress Project
Eugene Tapahe Watch: Art Heals, The Jingle Dress Project ART HEALS: THE JINGLE DRESS PROJECT Our project originated from a dream to unite the beauty of the land and the healing power of the...
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CIBOLA: Seven Cities of Gold
WATCH CIBOLA: SEVEN CITIES OF GOLD A film by Jamison Chas Banks 1864- NEW MEXICO TERRITORY: While the Civil War rages in the east, a Confederate renegade embarks on a mythic trail of stolen Union...
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Yuxweluptun: Man of Masks by Dana Claxton
CLICK TO WATICH YUXWELUPTUN: MAN OF MASKS By Dana Claxton This short documentary serves as a portrait of Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, one of Canada’s most important painters. We meet him at the Bisley...
View ArticleInternational Partnership Unites North American Indigenous Fashion Leaders
International Partnership Unites North American Indigenous Fashion Leaders FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Santa Fe, NM; June 17, 2021: SWAIA Fashion, the highly acclaimed and largest Native North American...
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The 99th Annual Santa Fe Indian Market Announces Best of Show Winners
Artist Rhonda Holy Bear is awarded Best of Show at Santa Fe Indian Market 2021 Awards Luncheon in the Beadwork/Quillwork Classification Santa Fe Indian Market is pleased to announce this year’s Best of...
View ArticleSWAIA Announces New Board Appointments
SWAIA Announces New Board Appointments In Advance of Centennial Year L. Stephine Poston elected Chair – SWAIA Board of Directors NEWS PROVIDED BY Southwestern Association for Indian Arts Oct 14,...
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Winter Indian Market Returns to La Fonda Hotel in Downtown Santa Fe
Winter Indian Market Returns to La Fonda Hotel in Downtown Santa Fe Holiday shopping direct from Indigenous Artists FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE—October 25, 2021; Santa Fe, N.M.— The Southwestern...
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November 2021 Press Highlights
Good Old Fashioned American Craftsmanship, The Pasatiempo by Jennifer Levin “Shipping delays are on the horizon for the holiday season, so “shop local” may just be the gift-giving mantra for 2021. The...
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Santa Fe Indian Market Centennial SANTA FE, N.M., Dec. 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — The Southwestern Association for Indian Arts (SWAIA), the non-profit that produces the annual Santa Fe Indian Market, is...
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December 2021 Press Highlights
(Indigenous Peoples Heritage Month) The Enduring Power Of Turquoise Jewelry In Native American Cultures And what it means today. by BY HILARY GEORGE-PARKIN —LINK “ “We hoard our turquoise because...
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January 2022 Press Highlights
Website Gives Santa Fe high marks for art scene by Teya Vitu —LINK “I think it plays an important role in bringing people here and reminding people who have been here what an amazing destination Santa...
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February Press Highlights
How turquoise became synonymous with New Mexico Sacred to Indigenous people, beloved by collectors, one blue-green stone has huge cultural cachet in the “Land of Enchantment.” by Jennifer Barger...
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SWAIA Announces Centennial Fashion Designers
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE— The Southwestern Association for Indian Arts (SWAIA), the non-profit organization that produces the annual Santa Fe Indian Market, is pleased to announce SWAIA’s Centennial...
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Honoring Tradition With Joann and Bob Balzer As Indian Market celebrates its centennial anniversary, this video captures so much of the wonderful aspects of the Indian Market throughout the years, as...
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Slavery, Silver And The U.S. War Against The Navajo Nation
Excerpt From: The Blacksmith’s Shop “The chief quartermaster will direct that a set of blacksmith tools complete, and some iron, be sent to Fort Sumner for the use of the Navajos. Tell them...
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Welcome to our Centennial Celebration
I would like to acknowledge that this gathering convenes in O’gah’poh geh Owingeh (White Shell Water Place), or Santa Fe, New Mexico, located on the traditional and ancestral lands of the Tewa...
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Santa Fe Indian Market at ABQ
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View ArticleSWAIA Announces New Board Chair & Executive Committee Appoinments
SWAIA Announces New Board Chair & Executive Committee Appointments Dawn Houle is elected SWAIA Board of Director’s Chair FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE— October 24, 2023 Santa Fe, New Mexico: The...
View ArticleOfficial SWAIA Artist Policies
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