“Aye, como pasan los años.” This was a phrase that my maternal grandmother’s adopted tia, Rosa V.Castillo, would voice in bittersweet reminiscence as my generation, unbothered and uninterested by theconversations of our elders, played and grew before their wistful eyes. Rosa Castillo was born in Silver City, New Mexico, in 1917, just five years after New Mexico wasadmitted into the Union as a […] Read More

We respectfully acknowledge that the entirety of southwestern New Mexico is the traditional territory, since time immemorial, of the Chis-Nde, also known as the people of the Chiricahua Apache Nation. The Chiricahua Apache Nation is recognized as a sovereign Native Nation by the United States in the Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Friendship of 1 July 1852 (10 Stat. 979) (Treaty of Santa Fe ratified 23 March 1853 and proclaimed by President Franklin Pierce 25 March 1853).