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“I didn’t tell anybody – I just did it. I made the decision on my own,” Kyon Benally said of his decision to get a passport, travel outside of the United States for the first time in his life, and represent his Navajo heritage, UNM, New Mexico and an...

In the three short years since the Indigenous Design + Planning Institute (iD+Pi) was established at the University of New Mexico School of Architecture and Planning, the institute’s faculty, staff and students have completed two major projects – one ...

Ken LuceroKen Lucero, director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center for Native American Health Policy will speak on Tuesday, Nov. 6 at 11 a.m. in the Waters Room of Zimmerman Library. Lucero's talk is titled, "Pueblo Health: Healthy Minds, ...

The UNM Institute for American Indian Research and The Alfonso Ortiz Center for Intercultural Studies host the 2012 Indigenous Book Festival, Thursday – Friday, April 12-13, to celebrate contemporary Native American writers, scholars and storytellers in ...

Yu'pik Alaskan architect Michael Fredericks presents, "Participatory Design – The Story of the User," Monday, Oct. 25 from 5:30 – 6:45 p.m. in Pearl Hall Auditorium. A pre-lecture reception is set at 4:45 p.m. Light refreshments will be served.The ...

University Libraries' Indigenous Nations Library Program will present a brown bag lunch and talk by Taos tribal council member and former Taos Pueblo Governor Gilbert Suazo on Wednesday, Oct. 20. Suazo will lead a discussion from 12 to 1 p.m. in The ...

David Sloan invited the Contemporary Indigenous Architecture class and the community into the sites where native architecture and planning were designed and into the buildings borne out of them. The lecture series is in conjunction with the course being ...

*(Editor's Note: The book, "Contemporary Native American Architecture: cultural regeneration and creativity," by Carol Hershelle Krinsky, was published by Oxford University Press in 1996.)The UNM School of Architecture and Planning offers a new course ...