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![Historic photograph of an adobe village with several people standing or walking in an open central area, surrounded by flat-roofed buildings and fenced enclosures. [gen-ai]](https://elpalacio.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/002493-scaled-1-400x225.jpg)
BY JOSÉ ANTONIO ESQUIBEL Pueblo Indians and Hispanos of New Mexico share common bonds forged over the course of more than four hundred years. During those centuries, there were more years of cooperation and co-existence, punctuated with episodes of conciliation, than years of conflict.
![Black-and-white photo of a soldier with a rifle standing guard over a large group of seated prisoners or detainees in an outdoor camp setting. [gen-ai]](https://elpalacio.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/028534_greyscale.cx_-400x225.png)
BY HAMPTON SIDES This story accompanies Esther G. Belin's poem, "The Petition(-ing, er) of Peace(-ful)(mak -ing, -er)." At the War Department, Kit Carson met with generals Phil Sheridan and William Sherman.
![Two women stand in front of a Georgia O’Keeffe painting displayed on a wall, smiling for a photo. [gen-ai]](https://elpalacio.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/1984Newspaper-1-400x225.png)
BY KATE NELSON I don’t think the Museum of Art could have asked for or received a better birthday present,” director Mary Kershaw said after black curtains parted to reveal a Georgia O’Keeffe painting on the stage of Saint Francis Auditorium.
BY MICHAEL MILLER The New Mexico historic property known today as Los Luceros has supported consistent human occupation for about 800 years, according to the archaeological record. Today, that occupation metric is miniscule: the ranger’s lodgings and occasional travelers who bunk in the guest house overlooking a rambunctious stretch of the Rio Grande.
![Two people wearing warm clothing and hats stand outdoors in a snowy landscape with bare trees in the background. [gen-ai]](https://elpalacio.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/wind-400x225.jpg)
BY JACK LOEFFLER I was a seventeen-year-old senior in high school when I received news that I had failed my aptitude test. The test had revealed that my career preference was bifurcated between being a jazz trumpet player and a forest ranger.
![A group of football players in red and white uniforms huddle together against a purple background with orange swirls and white and red paint splatters. [gen-ai]](https://elpalacio.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/certainpov-400x225.jpg)
I’ve noticed that we don’t witness anything firsthand any longer. Our first reaction to anything that happens in real life is to record it, post it, snap it, share it.
![A circular structure in a desert. [gen-ai]](https://elpalacio.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Coronado-Monument-NM102-400x225.jpg)
![Faded, elongated mural with light blue and beige tones, depicting numerous figures and trees, bordered by a decorative floral pattern. [gen-ai]](https://elpalacio.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Hide-Seek_2-400x225.jpg)
BY PETER BG SHOEMAKER IN A PLEASANTLY CHAOTIC room near the Stewart L. Udall Center’s maintenance office, Mark MacKenzie, the Conservation Lab’s chief conservator, is figuring out how to photograph the Segesser Hides in near microscopic detail, in eighteen wavelengths and three spectra, only one of which we can see.
![Black-and-white photo of women performing onstage, some clapping, one with a guitar, while audience members sit at tables in the foreground, likely in a historic tavern or café setting. [gen-ai]](https://elpalacio.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Flamenco_1-400x225.jpg)
BY CARMELLA PADILLA In the beginning was el cante—the song. The song was its own instrument. Its notes, rhythms, and timbres were carried by the currents of the Mediterranean and El Río Betis, today’s Guadalquivir, the routes followed by multiethnic groups of nomadic Gypsies to Andalucía in southern Spain.
![Painting depicts an aerial attack on a coastal military landing, with planes in the sky, ships approaching shore, and explosions on the beach. [gen-ai]](https://elpalacio.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Everything_3-400x225.jpg)
BY CINDRA KLINE LLOYD HENRI KIVA NEW’s life as designer, artist, scholar, and visionary educator remains a call to creative souls still listening to what New frequently referred to as “the sound of drums.” In celebration of his influence, and honoring what would have been his 100th birthday, a collaborative effort between three Santa Fe museums spotlights the man and the motivation he has provided to so many individuals.
