Crow Canyon to offer summer institute
The Crow Canyon Archaeological Center in Cortez is accepting applications for its three-week summer institute.
Called “From Mesa Verde to Santa Fe: Pueblo Identity in the Southwest,” the institute will run from June 28 to July 18. The program is funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, which provides stipends to help cover expenses. The faculty includes educators, archaeologists and Native American scholars.
Participants will examine the history of the Southwest, piecing together the data and perspectives of archaeology, ethnohistory and oral history.
Based at Crow Canyon, the institute will feature two field trips to ancient and contemporary Pueblo villages. Institute scholars will spend several days each at Mesa Verde National Park and at historic Pueblo and Spanish colonial communities in northern New Mexico.
Twenty-five people will be accepted for the program. The deadline for applications is March 2. Successful applicants will be notified by the end of March.
For more information, call (800) 422-8975, ext. 146, or 564-4346; email NEHinstitute2015@crowcanyon.org; or visit www.crowcanyon.org and click on “Educators” under the “Choose an Archaeology Program” tab.
Turtle Lake Refuge to host event Jan. 5
Turtle Lake Refuge will sponsor a “Wild Wisdom of Weeds Party” at 6:30 p.m. Jan. 5 at Durango Community Recreation Center, 2700 Main Ave.
Katrina Blair will give a slide show featuring the plants in her new book, The Wild Wisdom of Weeds: 13 Essential Plants for Human Survival.
This free event will include wild-food recipes and music by Durango Drums, Maribi Ceiba, The Dandelions and Carute Roma.
Herald Staff
