Silver Suite Trunk Show & Sale
Saturday, November 9, 2024
10 am – 4 pm
Join us for a one-day Trunk Show with Silver Suite, vintage Native American jewelry. Find the perfect holiday gift or something special to add to your collection. Also, don’t forget you do not pay sales tax on any purchases from the Amerind.
This event is included with Museum admission.
Comcáac (Seri) Art Show & Sale
Saturday & Sunday, October 26 & 27, 10am – 4pm
Visit the Amerind and learn about the art and culture of the Comcáac (Seri) people of Sonora, Mexico. Meet the artists behind these unique creations of Comcáac basketry, wood carvings, necklaces, and other beautifully crafted works of art for sale.
The Seri people of the desert and the sea are known for their beautiful arts and crafts, which include a long history of basket weaving and more recently wood carving and other crafts.
This event is included with Museum admission.
Amerind Free Online Talk
“Rio Abajo Cultural Traditions during the Late Prehistoric-Early Colonial Periods: A View from Goat Spring Pueblo (LA285), New Mexico” with Suzanne Eckert, PhD
Saturday, October 26, 2024, 11:00 am – Arizona time
“Rio Abajo Cultural Traditions during the Late Prehistoric-Early Colonial Periods: A View from Goat Spring Pueblo (LA285), New Mexico”
Located at a little over 6,000 feet in elevation along the eastern edge the Cibola National Forest, Goat Spring Pueblo overlooks the Plano San Lorenzo of the Rio Abajo floodplain. It has been suggested that Rio Abajo villages played a major role in late Ancestral Pueblo Period (A.D. 1300-1680) social dynamics. For example, a major trail between the Western Pueblo and Rio Grande regions passed near Goat Spring Pueblo before ending near modern day Socorro. Given this known trail, the Rio Abajo may have been a gateway for the movement of people, cosmological ideas and ritual practices, as well as goods between the Rio Grande and Western Pueblo regions. This lecture considers recent excavations at Goat Spring Pueblo that have contributed to a much better understanding of cultural change and continuity in this region during this time.
Suzanne L. Eckert is the Head of Collections at the Arizona State Museum. She earned her doctorate in 2003 from the Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University. Dr. Eckert’s research focuses on how late Ancestral Pueblo cultures organized ceramic technology. She is especially interested in how this technology integrated with other aspects of society, including migration, political and social organization, religious practice and ideology, and gender and ethnic relations.
Register here: https://bit.ly/Amerindonline10262024Eckert
Free to all Amerind Members
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Amerind’s Annual Autumn Fest
Saturday, October 19, 2024
10 am – 4 pm
$10 per vehicle
Join Amerind at our Annual Autumn Fest as we celebrate the history, culture, and arts of the Apache Community.
Rich in tradition, history, and culture, Apache teachers, artists, and singers will hold a day-long cultural celebration at the Amerind Museum in Dragoon, Arizona. Autumn Fest will feature performances by musician, Matthew Andrae (Jicarilla Apache), and public talks about Apache history from scholar Marcus Macktima, PhD. The event will also welcome many Native artists who will have their art for sale, including: painters Oliver Enjady, Ishkoten Dougi, Aaron Freeland, Jicarilla Apache baskets by Rowena Mora, and pottery by Shelden Nunez-Velarde, Jewelry by Matagi Sorensen (Yavapai-Apache), Greenstone’s and last years people choice winners, Priscilla Tacheney, photography, John Suazo, sculpture, Arnold & Karlene Goodluck, jewelry and many more!
Artist demonstrations in apache basket weaving, pottery and more.
Food: by Shirley’s Native Food and La Unica Mexican Food.
Autumn Fest is Saturday, October 19, from 10:00 am until 4:00 pm at the Amerind Museum in Dragoon, AZ. $10 per vehicle.
More details will be coming soon!
Let’s Get Together
Have you ever wondered more about Amerind’s founding family? Or, want to peek at the historic home behind the museum and art galleries? Now is your opportunity.
You are invited to an insider members-only lunch and tour of the historic Fulton Seminar House, where heritage meets elegance. Each month throughout the summer, members can experience Amerind in an exclusive, intimate setting with a full delicious lunch service and behind-the-scenes tour of the Fulton Seminar House.
Your memorable luncheon begins with a warm welcome in the Spanish Colonial courtyard. Enjoy light bites in the Fulton Seminar House living room while learning about the latest events at Amerind with a backdrop of the panoramic views of Texas Canyon.
A private tour by Willie Adams, great-grandson of Amerind founder William Shirley Fulton, provides unique insights into Amerind’s history peppered with a few entertaining family tales!
Lunch will be served in the family dining room, including entrée with sides and a delectable dessert.
Fulton Family Heritage Luncheons are offered on selected Thursdays from 10:30 AM–1 PM:
Don’t miss out on this exclusive opportunity! Reserve your spot today! To purchase your ticket or learn more details, go here.
Not a Member? Annual Memberships start at $50, consider joining by going to our membership page here for access to this exclusive Amerind experience.
Reservations and payments are required in advance. All participants, including guests, must have an active membership with Amerind. The cost per person is $40. Luncheon participants are limited to 12 individuals. A minimum of 6 persons are needed for each event. To find out about availability please click on the event link. To find out if your membership is active and up-to date contact our membership services via email at [email protected] or call 520.586.3666.
Thank you to our 2024 Texas Canyon Sporting Event sponsor, The Mahoney Group
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Free Online Talk
Comanches, Captives, Germans: Transactions on the Texas Frontier, 1847
with Daniel J. Gelo, PhD & Christopher J. Wickham, PhD
Saturday, June 22, 2024
11:00 am – Arizona Time
In 2021, three finely worked sketches dating back to the middle of the nineteenth century were brought to the attention of scholars studying the relationship between German settlers and Comanche Indians. Seemingly the work of one artist, and (with one exception) never published, the sketches feature Comanches, Germans, a captive girl, a wagon train, the landscape and wildlife of the Texas Hill Country, and dynamic scenes of cultural contact. Who was the girl? Who were the Comanches involved? Who were the Germans? Where and when did this captive exchange take place? What do we make of the rich Indian and German cultural details that the artist includes? How can we understand his work—as art, as data about Comanche life and customs, and as documentation of a specific cultural encounter? And, of course, who was the artist, and how important is his work? Trying to find answers to these questions, the presenters will examine the drawings in detail and decode information placed by the artist.
Daniel J. Gelo is Dean and Professor of Anthropology Emeritus and former Stumberg Distinguished University Chair at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Gelo holds Ph.D., M.Phil., M.A., and B.A. degrees in anthropology from Rutgers University. His publications include: Comanche Vocabulary (University of Texas Press, 1995), Comanches in the New West, 1896-1908 (with Stanley Noyes, University of Texas Press, 1999), Texas Indian Trails (with Wayne L. Pate, Republic of Texas Press, 2003), Comanches and Germans on the Texas Frontier: The Ethnology of Heinrich Berghaus (with Christopher J. Wickham, Texas A&M University Press, 2018), and Indians of the Great Plains (Second Edition, Routledge, 2019). He has won the UTSA President’s Distinguished Achievement Award, the University of Texas System Chancellor’s Council Outstanding Teaching Award, and the Presidio La Bahia Award for best book on early Texas history.
Christopher J. Wickham is Professor Emeritus of German at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Having taught at the Universität Regensburg, Germany, Allegheny College, PA, and the University of Illinois at Chicago he moved to UTSA in 1991. Wickham retired from teaching in 2017. His research focuses on German literature and culture, and most recently on the interaction between German settlers and Comanches in 19th-century Texas. He authored a monograph on the dialect of Diendorf, Bavaria, (1987) and books on the notion of Heimat (1999) and Comanches and Germans in Texas (2018, with Daniel J. Gelo) which won the Presidio La Bahia Award for best book on early Texas history. Comanches, Captives, and Germans, a book coauthored with Dan Gelo, Hoppy Hopkins and Bryden Moon, appeared in January 2023. He is currently working with Dan Gelo on a study of 19th century Texas botanist and newspaperman Ferdinand Lindheimer.
Book Publication:
Gelo, Daniel J., C. B. “Hoppy” Hopkins, Christopher J. Wickham, and Bryden Moon.
Comanches, Captives, and Germans: Wilhelm Friedrich’s Drawings from the Texas Frontier. Kerrville, TX: State House Press, 2022.
https://www.tamupress.com/book/9781649670137/comanches-captives-and-germans/
To register for this free online event, visit: https://bit.ly/Amerindonline06222024GeloWickham
Introduction to Nature Journaling at the Texas Canyon Nature Preserve
with Instructor Roseann Hanson
Saturday, April 20, 2024
9:00 am – 3:30 pm
$75 non-members
$70 Members (please call to register)
Day long workshop Includes:
Lunch
a copy of the workbook, Nature Journaling for a Wild Life-a $35 value, free passes to
Amerind Free Online Lecture
Capturing Water in Chaco Canyon and the Legacy of R. Gwinn Vivian
with Samantha Fladd, PhD
Saturday, April 6, 2024, 11:00 am – Arizona Time
Capturing Water in Chaco Canyon and the Legacy of R. Gwinn Vivian
While Chaco Canyon is renowned for massive great houses and concentrations of nonlocal materials, the ability of residents to productively farm the arid landscape has remained contentious within archaeology. These debates have ranged from questions over soil quality to the existence and use of water management features. Throughout his career, Dr. R. Gwinn Vivian worked tirelessly to locate and document evidence of water management, particularly canal systems, from within and around the Canyon. In this talk, I will provide an overview of this evidence and discuss the importance of Dr. Vivian’s legacy on the field of Southwest archaeology.
Samantha Fladd is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology and Director of the Museum of Anthropology at Washington State University. She received her PhD from the University of Arizona in 2018 and has been doing archaeological research in the Four Corners region of the US Southwest for about 15 years. She is the second author on an upcoming book with Dr. R. Gwinn Vivian on Capturing Water (University of Utah Press), which presents his lifetime of research on water management and agricultural potential in and around Chaco Canyon.
To register for this free online event, visit: https://bit.ly/Amerindonline04062024Fladd
