Texas Canyon Mountain Bike Race & Fun Ride

2027 8th Annual – Texas Canyon Mountain Bike Race & Fun Ride

Saturday January 30, 2027

9:00 am start time for the 6.2-mile Fun of the Amerind Fun Ride course
9:05 am start time for the Little Tykes Fun Loop
10:00 am start time for the Fulton Full Course-42 miles
10:10 am start time for the Lockett Rocket Short Course-21 miles
To register, visit:  https://bit.ly/TCMBR27

Registration is now open with Early bird pricing – Register by September 1st to save.

The Amerind Museum presents the 8th Annual Texas Canyon Mountain Bike Race & Fun Ride.  Saturday, January 30th is your opportunity to enjoy this awe-inspiring region that is normally closed to bikes. Come out to Amerind and join us for our exciting new racecourse (debuted last year on a rainy race day-with rave reviews from riders) it is 50% single track in and around the famous boulders of Texas Canyon!

The Fulton Full Course: Where racers will do four laps (42 miles) of jeep trails and single track.  Start time: 10:00 am

The Lockett Rocket Short Course: Racers will do two laps (21 miles) of jeep trails and single track. Start time: 10:10

For a course map with elevation gains please click on map at the bottom of the race site page.

Open to ages 12-99, Awards will be given to overall male and female winners along with 1st through 3rd place medals in each age division. Overall winners will also be awarded a piece of Native American art.

Race Divisions

Jr Male/Female 12-19

Male/Female 20-59

Male/Female 60+

The Texas Canyon Fun Ride we will have two categories:

The Friends of Amerind Fun Ride: Fun and non-technical 6.2 mile course that covers much of the Amerind Museum property. Riders will get a chance to challenge themselves on the dirt roads in and around the Amerind, while taking in the sights and gaining bragging rights for their efforts. E-bikes, mountain bikes, gravel bikes are all welcome.

Open to ages 8-99. This ride is all about fun! This non-competitive ride will not have awards.

Start time: 9:00 am

Little Tykes Fun Loop: Kids 8 and under can have a blast rolling around a short course of approximately .25 miles under mom and dad’s watchful supervision. This is non-competitive and entirely to let the kids get in on the day’s fun. Participation medals will be given! FREE to participate

Start time: 9:05

We will provide hot coffee and cocoa in the morning to warm you up and get you going before the ride.

After the awards ceremony, grab a well-deserved bite from one of the food vendors. When you’re done, show your bike plate number or free guest passes to the admissions desk for free entry into the Amerind Museum, Art Gallery included with registration.  Make a day of it!

Participation in the event enables Amerind to further its mission of fostering and promoting knowledge and understanding of the Native Peoples of the Americas through research, education, conservation, and community engagement.

Have fun and support a place you love!

Want to participate and register as a corporate or other large group? Please contact us for details we make it easy!

The Race Course

The race will be held entirely within Texas Canyon on the Amerind Foundation property. The new and improved course will take you on 2-4 loops of 50% single track and jeep trails in and around the famous boulders of Texas Canyon, an area only open to bikes on race day. Helmets are required. Please remember no dogs and no headsets, in compliance with our insurance requirements. This new racecourse is designed for mountain bikes; e-bikes, gravel bikes and other bikes are welcome to participate in the non-competitive Fun Ride.

Aid Stations – BYOB

This is a BYOB event- bring your own bottle of hydration. You must be 100% self-sufficient. There will be no aid stations on the course.

Registration and Packet Pick-Up

Onsite registration and packet pick-up will begin on race day at 8:00 am. Please arrive at least 30 minutes before your start time to allow time to pick up your packet, park, and attach your number plate.

RACE DAY REQUIREMENTS

ALL participants must adhere to the following requirements:

  • You must be 100% self-sufficient. There are no water stops, refreshments, or medical assistance at the race.
  • Your number plate with timing chip must be fastened to the handlebars and must not be obstructed or covered up in any way.
  • Your race is a gun start. Therefore, please be on the line and ready to start.
  • Helmets must be worn.
  • Participants must follow all instructions of the course marshals. Failure to adhere to course marshal instructions will result in an immediate disqualification

Results and Awards

All results will be streamed live on On Your Left Timing’s Results Page. During registration, you can also sign up for results text messaging.

We hope you will join us for a fun day at the Amerind!

 

Free Online Talk: The Shapes of Us: Salado Polychrome Pottery and the Kayenta Diaspora in the 1300s and 1400s,” with Kathleen Barvick.

Amerind Free Online Talk
Thursday, July 16, 2026
12:00 pm (AZ time)
To register, visit: https://bit.ly/Amerindonline07162026Barvick

Join us on Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 12:00 pm (AZ time) for an online talk, “The Shapes of Us: Salado Polychrome Pottery and the Kayenta Diaspora in the 1300s and 1400s” with PhD candidate Kathleen Barvick.

In the late 1200s, a massive drought hit the Southwest, causing political instability and sparking a massive migration as people left the Four Corners area and migrated south to settle along the rivers, which changed to social and political organization of the Southwest forever. One group of people, from the Kayenta region of northeastern Arizona, settled across a wide area of central and southern Arizona and western New Mexico, sometimes integrating into local settlements, sometimes setting up their own enclaves away from existing settlements. Dr. Barvick’s research focuses on Salado polychrome, a specific type of pottery that arose among these Kayenta immigrant communities and spread across Arizona and New Mexico. By looking at Salado polychrome pots across the Southwest, and specifically at the variation in their shapes, she investigates how the Kayenta immigrant diaspora shared technological practices regarding pottery creation across far-flung communities in the 1300s and 1400s, how the use of Salado polychrome spread, and how Kayenta immigrants negotiated their identities as Kayenta people and as immigrants in their new homes.

Dr. Kate Barvick is an archaeologist who studies pottery, migration, and community networks in the US Southwest. She grew up in Massachusetts and received a BA in Anthropology and Linguistics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2018. Her archaeology experience in Massachusetts focused on 18th- and 19th-century historic house sites, with a special emphasis on the Revolutionary War era. Her research in the Southwest is both older than that (she spent several summers in northern New Mexico near Taos, on a collaborative community project with Picuris Pueblo) and more recent (she spent several years researching the history of baseball and its connection to labor movements in the 20th century in Bisbee, AZ). She brings from this background a passion for public archaeology, community engagement, and the bridging of the past and the present. She currently lives in Tucson, recently defended her PhD at the University of Arizona, and is the Amerind Emerging Scholar-in-Residence in Summer 2026.

If you are unsure if you can watch live, register using an email and the recording of the talk will be sent to you following the program.

We hope you will join us!

Amerind Members -Fulton Family Heritage Luncheon & Tour

You’re invited to the Fulton Family Heritage Luncheon & Tour

Thursday, June 25, 2026
10:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Members-Only: $35 per person

Reserve your ticket here: Eventbrite

You’re invited to the Fulton Family Heritage Luncheon & Tour

Where heritage meets elegance, an exclusive members-only tour of the historic Fulton Seminar House

Where heritage meets elegance, join us for an insider members-only tour of the historic Fulton Seminar House with a delightful luncheon included.

Photo: front left, Amerind archaeologist Charles Di Peso seated next to Mrs. Rose Hayden-Fulton with Amerind founder William Shirley Fulton middle right.]

Amerind Members-Fulton Family Heritage Luncheon!

Please join us for the ultimate experience with Amerind’s history, founding family, and our talented Guest Services team. Members will enjoy a warm welcome to the Fulton Seminar House followed by a personal Tour with family stories led by our founders’ great-grandson, Willlie Adams. Your Tour will be followed by an elegant lunch together-with dessert-in the formal dining room. After lunch enjoy the Museum, Art Gallery, and Museum Store and see what’s new. Your membership includes a 10% discount on all shop purchases.

Fulton Family Heritage Luncheon

Thursday, June 25, 2026

10:30 AM – 1:00 PM

Members-Only price: $35 per person

With seating limited to 12 guests, reserve your spot today!

Purchase your tickets by following the button below. Questions or any dietary restrictions, please call Maggie Ohnesorgen at 520-686-1336 or email [email protected] to reserve.

Not a Member? Consider joining the supportive Amerind community for access to this exclusive opportunity by visiting our membership page here. Annual memberships start at $50.

If you are not sure about your Membership status, please contact [email protected] or call Kelly Holt at 520-686-6172.

Don’t miss out on this exclusive opportunity!

The Amerind will be at Celebrate the San Pedro at San Pedro House

Join us at the San Pedro House

9800 E. Highway 90 Sierra Vista, AZ.

Saturday, April 25th. 9:00 am – 2:00 pm

Free Event

Come out for a fun day celebrating the San Pedro with activities, speakers, booths, and more to entertain and educate on Nature and History of the area.

Join the Amerind on Saturday, April 25th from 9:00 am – 2:00 pm for the annual Celebrate the San Pedro event. This event is FREE and open to all. There will be activities, displays and speakers to entertain and educate about the natural and historical wonders of the San Pedro Riparian Conservation Area, of SPRNCA.

Amerind will be one of many booths where you can come and learn about the Amerind, pick up some free passes, and participate in an all ages, art activity with us. There will also be the annual team bird count competition!

We hope you come out and learn about the natural and cultural history of the area with us. The San Pedro House is located eight miles east of Sierra Vista on Highway 90. 9800 E. Highway 90 Sierra Vista, AZ.

Come celebrate the San Pedro!

Amerind will be at the Tucson Festival of Books

Amerind will be at the Tucson Festival of Books
Booth #550
Saturday & Sunday, March 14-15
9:30 am – 5:30 pm
Free Event
Where: University of Arizona Mall, Tucson, AZ

Join us for a weekend of books and more at the Tucson Festival of Books, where you can come out to see all the exhibitors, stop by the Amerind Booth #550 to say hello and pick up a free pass, learn about what’s new and happening at the Museum, and check out the Amerind Studies in Anthropology publications authored by our visiting scholars and researchers.

Check out the schedule to go to one or more of the many visiting author talks, all free, visit: tucsonfestivalofbooks.org for more information.

We hope to see you at the Book Festival!

 

Free Online Talk: “Life on the Edge of the Mimbres Region: Powers Ranch as a Mimbres Site” with Patricia Gilman & Mary Whisenhunt

Free Online Talk
Thursday, March 12, 2026
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm (AZ time)
“Life on the Edge of the Mimbres Region: Powers Ranch as a Mimbres Site” with Patricia Gilman, PhD & Mary Whisenhunt, PhD

To register, visit: https://bit.ly/Amerindonline03122026Gilman

Join us on Thursday, March 12, 2026 at 12:00 pm (AZ time) for an online talk, “Life on the Edge of the Mimbres Region: Powers Ranch as a Mimbres Site”, with Patricia Gilman, PhD and Mary Whisenhunt, PhD.

When people think of Mimbres archaeology, they picture beautiful black-on-white pottery with paintings of people and animals and large pueblo sites in the Mimbres Valley of southwestern New Mexico.  However, there were Mimbres sites beyond the Mimbres Valley, but they were different from those in the valley.  We explore what it meant to be Mimbres at the Powers Ranch site, a small settlement at the western edge of the Mimbres region. We conclude that the people at Powers Ranch were quintessentially Mimbres and were more closely affiliated with Mimbres settlements on the Gila River drainage in southeast Arizona and New Mexico than with those living in the Mimbres Valley core area.

Mary Whisenhunt received her anthropology doctorate in 2020, conducting her field work in southeast Arizona. Her research focused on the social resilience of precontact Indigenous people on the western boundary of the Mimbres region.

Patricia Gilman has done archaeological research in the Mimbres region for more than 50 years, retiring from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Oklahoma. One of her research foci has been Mimbres beyond the Mimbres Valley.

We hope you will join us!

If you can’t join us to watch live on March 12th, register using an email and the recorded talk will be sent to you after the talk, to watch at your leisure.

 

Free Online Talk “Our Elder Brother Dwells There: How I’itoi Ki Moved from Mountain Peak to Basket Design.” with David Martinez, PhD.

Photo: Early 20th Century O’odham Basket with “Man in the Maze” design, 13 1/4″ dia., Amerind permanent collection

Amerind Free Online Talk

Thursday, February 12, 2026

12:00 pm (AZ time)

“Our Elder Brother Dwells There: How I’itoi Ki Moved from Mountain Peak to Basket Design.” with David Martinez, PhD. (Akimel O’odham/Hia-Ced O’odham/Mexican)

To register, visit: https://bit.ly/Amerindonline02122026Martinez

Join us on Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 12:00 pm (AZ time) for a free online talk, “Our Elder Brother Dwells There: How I’itoi Ki Moved from Mountain Peak to Basket Design.” with Dr. David Martinez.

“Learn about I’itoi, Elder Brother, who taught O’odham how to live well in their desert homelands. Learn where his home, his kih, is located, according to oral tradition. Most importantly, learn about how the symbol of this home, I’itoi kih, started appearing in O’odham baskets more than a century ago. What does it all mean?”

David Martínez (Akimel O’odham/Hia-ced O’odham/Mexican), Is a Professor of American Indian Studies and Transborder Studies at Arizona State University. He is the author of the forthcoming The Maze of History: Komal Hok, O’odham Teachings, and an Earth-Based Sense of Time (University of New Mexico Press, April 2026).

Martínez is also the author of Dakota Philosopher: Charles Eastman and American Indian Thought (Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2009), Life of the Indigenous Mind: Vine Deloria Jr and the Birth of the Red Power Movement (University of Nebraska Press, 2019), My Heart Is Bound Up With Them: How Carlos Montezuma Became the Voice of a Generation (University of Arizona Press, 2023), and editor of The American Indian Intellectual Tradition: An Anthology of Writings from 1772 to 1972 (Cornell University Press, 2011).

Dr. Martínez is also the director and founder of the Institute for Transborder Indigenous Nations (ITIN), which is housed in the School of Transborder Studies at ASU, where it focuses on Indigenous nations impacted by the US-Mexico Border.

Interested but unsure if you will be able to join us live? Register using an email and the recording of the talk will be sent later that evening to all registrants.

We hope you will join us for this fascinating talk.