Presenting Pojoaque History through Exhibits

Summary

This is an abstract from the "From Collaboration to Partnership in Pojoaque, New Mexico" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

As someone who was born and raised in my own Pueblo, it amazed me how much I don’t know of the history of the Pueblo of Pojoaque. I’ve heard bits and pieces, different versions of stories from different people, and I’ve read about our history but none made an impact until I was part of a discussion at the University of Colorado, Boulder this past spring as a participant in a public exhibition project about the University’s and Pojoaque’s collaboration. In 1952, Florence Ellis brought her field school to survey the old village sites in Pojoaque Pueblo. My grandfather was Governor at the time and gave his consent for the survey. After seeing what was taken and reading the report Ellis wrote, I immediately felt that I needed to know more… more about my family, my people, the land, the way we survived. I want to know our past.

Through the exhibition I would like to create something to teach our tribal members, visitors, and community members our history…but more so to show what we have endured to survive and how we are working towards for our future.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)   •
• From Collaboration to Partnership in Pojoaque, New Mexico

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Record Identifiers

Abstract Id(s): 24403