Mesa Verde to hold native graves talk
Peter Pino will present insights into his 20-year involvement with issues related to the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act and Mesa Verde National Park at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Far View Lodge in Mesa Verde National Park.
Pino, former Zia Pueblo tribal administrator and lifelong kiva leader, is from Zia Pueblo, near Albuquerque. He has worked for the tribe since 1977 and recently retired as the Tribal Administrator for the Pueblo of Zia. Currently, he serves as an advisor and board member for the Mesa Verde Foundation. He also is a traditional craftsman who tans deer hides and makes moccasins, bows and arrows, digging sticks, rabbit sticks and bone tools using the same techniques employed by his Pueblo ancestors.
For more information, visit www.mesaverde.org/four-corners-lecture-series.
FLC provost to address University Women
The annual meeting of the Durango Branch of the American Association of University Women will take place from 2 to 4 p.m. Wednesday at Bowman Hall at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Durango, 419 San Juan Drive.
The program will be hosted by FLC Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs Barbara Jean Morris, whose talk is called “My Journey to Becoming Provost.” Guests are welcome.
For more information, call Katherine Burgess at 903-9250.
Archaeological society to host CU’s Joyce
The San Juan Basin Archaeological Society will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College.
Arthur Joyce from the University of Colorado, Boulder, will speak about “Lord 8 Deer, Jaguar Claw and the Journey to the Land of the Sky: Archaeology and History of the Tututepec Empire, Oaxaca, Mexico.”
Joyce will discuss the origins, extent, chronology and aspects of the internal organization and external relations of Tututepec based on the results of a regional survey, excavations and a reanalysis of ethnohistoric documents. He will summarize the archaeology of the lower Rio Verde Valley beginning with the earliest agricultural villages dating to 1800 B.C. and tracing the rise of the city of Rio Viejo at 100 B.C.
Duane Smith to talk to the Kiwanis Club
The Kiwanis Club of Durango will hear from Duane Smith, retired professor of history and Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College, author of numerous books about Colorado and the West and a local historian, at noon Thursday at the Durango Community Recreation Center, 2700 Main Ave.
For more information, call 247-5011.
‘Riding My Way Back’ about a man, horse
The Four Corners Back Country Horsemen will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday at the La Plata County Fairgrounds, 2500 Main Ave.
Guests are welcome. Medicine Horse Center will show a film called “Riding My Way Back” about a war veteran who found his way back to a good place in his life – all because of a horse.
For more information, visit www.4cbch.org, call Cathy Roberts at 749-0316 or email cathyroberts08@gmail.com.
Durango Kennel Club to host dog shows
The Durango Kennel Club Dog Show will be held Friday through Sunday at the Montezuma County Fairgrounds, 30100 U.S. Highway 160, east of Cortez.
More than 100 different breeds of dogs will compete. There also will be obedience, rally and junior showmanship events. This American Kennel Club show will start at 9 a.m. Friday and Saturday and at 8 a.m. Sunday. Group judging will start about 2 p.m. each day.
Admission is free, and refreshments are available for purchase on-site. Only dogs that are entered are permitted on the show grounds.
For more information, visit www.durangokennelclub.org.
Explore the world of medicinal mushrooms
Clinical herbalist and microbiologist Marija Helt will teach a class on Medicinal Mushrooms from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday at Dancing Willow Herbs, 1018 Main Ave.
Participants will explore the world of medicinal mushrooms, some of which grow in Colorado.
The suggested donation is $20.
To RSVP, call 779-3111 or visit www.osadha.com and click contact.
Herald Staff
