When: Monday, March 18, 2024
Time: 1 – 4 p.m., PST
Where: Campus Quad, Fullerton College, 321 E Chapman Ave, Fullerton, CA
Celebrate with editors Amber Rose González, Felicia ‘Fe’ Montes, and Nadia Zepeda at their book launch party for Mujeres de Maiz en Movimiento: Spiritual Artivism, Healing Justice, and Feminist Praxis at Fullerton College. This free event features Mujeres de Maiz writers, artists, and performers as well as a marketplace, art workshops, and book signings. Books will be available for purchase and a few will be given away to those who attend. The family-friendly event is open to the public.
About the book:
Founded in 1997, Mujeres de Maiz (MdM) is an Indigenous Xicana–led spiritual artivist organization and movement by and for women and feminists of color. Chronicling its quarter-century-long herstory, this collection weaves together diverse stories with attention to their larger sociopolitical contexts. The book crosses conventional genre boundaries through the inclusion of poetry, visual art, testimonios, and essays.
MdM’s political-ethical-spiritual commitments, cultural production, and everyday practices are informed by Indigenous and transnational feminist of color artistic, ceremonial, activist, and intellectual legacies.
Date: Wednesday, February 28, 2024
Time: 3 – 4 p.m., AZT
Where: Register for Zoom link
David Martínez discusses his book, My Heart is Bound Up with Them: How Carlos Montezuma Became the Voice of a Generation in a virtual “Beyond the Bookshelf” event. Martínez is professor of American Indian studies at Arizona State University (ASU) and is enrolled in the Gila River Indian Community. He will be joined in conversation with Social Sciences Librarian Brad Vogus and Vina Begay, assistant librarian with the Labriola National American Indian Data Center. ASU Library hosts this event.
About the book:
Carlos Montezuma is well known as an influential Indigenous figure of the turn of the twentieth century. While some believe he was largely interested only in enabling Indians to assimilate into mainstream white society, Montezuma’s image as a staunch assimilationist changes dramatically when viewed through the lens of his Yavapai relatives at Fort McDowell in Arizona.
Through his diligent research and transcription of the letters archived in the Carlos Montezuma Collection at Arizona State University Libraries, David Martínez offers a critical new perspective on Montezuma’s biography and legacy. During an attempt to force the Fort McDowell Yavapai community off of their traditional homelands north of Phoenix, the Yavapai community members and leaders wrote to Montezuma pleading for help. It was these letters and personal correspondence from his Yavapai cousins George and Charles Dickens, as well as Mike Burns that sparked Montezuma’s desperate but principled desire to liberate his Yavapai family and community—and all Indigenous people—from the clutches of an oppressive Indian Bureau.
When: Saturday, March 30, 2024
Time: 2 p.m., AZT
Where: Patagonia Public Library, 346 Duquesne Ave, Patagonia, AZ
A. Thomas Cole will speak about his book Restoring the Pitchfork Ranch at the Patagonia Public Library. This free event is co-hosted by Borderlands Restoration Network, Patagonia Public Library, and The Patagonia Museum. For his so-called “retirement,” Cole and his wife Lucinda have been rehabilitating a ranch in southwestern New Mexico, where they focus on protecting wildlife and wildlife habitats, wetland restoration, and carbon sequestration. Their aim is to draw down their carbon use and to encourage others to do the same.
About the book:
Restoring the Pitchfork Ranch tells the story of a decades-long habitat restoration project in southwestern New Mexico. Ranch owner A. Thomas Cole explains what inspired him and his wife, Lucinda, to turn their retirement into years dedicated to hard work and renewal. The book shares the past and present history of a very special ranch south of Silver City, which is home to a rare type of regional wetland, a fragile desert grassland ecosystem, archaeological sites, and a critical wildlife corridor in a drought-stricken landscape.
When: Tuesday, February 27, 2024
Time: 4 p.m., PST
Where: Fermanian Conference Center, Point Loma Nazarene University, 3900 Lomaland Drive, San Diego, CA
Margarita Pintado Burgos celebrates the launch of her book, Ojo en Celo / Eye in Heat at Point Loma Nazarene University, where she is an Associate Professor of Spanish. She will be joined by San Diego poets Katie Manning and Michael Klam. Ojo en celo / Eye in Heat is the 2023 winner of the Ambroggio Prize of the of the Academy of American Poets.
About the book:
Aflame with desire, the eye conjures, dreams, invents itself, sees what it wants. The eye sees what it is able to see.
Ojo en celo / Eye in Heat brings into sharp relief the limits of our gaze. It shows us what it is to escape the mirror and move beyond mirages. Margarita Pintado Burgos invites us to ponder the impasse while showing us ways to see better, to break the habit of lying, and to confront images along with language.
With devastating clarity, Pintado Burgos’s poems, presented in both Spanish and English, give voice to the world within and beyond sight: the plants, the trees, the birds, the ocean waves, the fruit forgotten in the kitchen, the house’s furniture. Light takes on new dimensions to expose, manipulate, destroy, and nourish. Alejandra Quintana Arocho’s sensitive English translation renders the stark force of these poems without smoothing over the language of the original.
Date: Saturday, March 23, 2024
Time: 10 a.m to 2 p.m., AZT
Where: Front Lawn, Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, 1013 E. University Blvd, Tucson
Celebrate the publication of Woven from the Center: Native Basketry in the Southwest, by Diane Dittemore, at the Arizona State Museum. Basket weavers from around the region, many highlighted in the book, will be showing and selling their wares as part of the Basketry Showcase and Basket Weaver Expo. In addition, the book will be available for purchase and signing by the author. Visitors may also go inside the museum to see the exhibit, “Woven Through Time: American Treasures of Native Basketry and Fiber Art,” curated by Dittemore.
About the book:
Woven from the Center presents breathtaking basketry from some of the greatest weavers in the Southwest. Each sandal and mat fragment, each bowl and jar, every water bottle and whimsy is infused with layers of aesthetic, cultural, and historical meanings. This book offers stunning photos and descriptions of woven works from Tohono O’odham, Akimel O’odham, Hopi, Western Apache, Yavapai, Navajo, Pai, Paiute, New Mexico Pueblo, Eastern Apache, Seri, Yaqui, Mayo, and Tarahumara communities. This richly illustrated volume stands on its own as a definitive look at basketry of the Greater Southwest, including northern Mexico.
When: Saturday, March 16, 2024
Time: 1 p.m., AZT
Where: Sierra Vista Library, 2600 E. Tacoma St., Sierra Vista, AZ
A. Thomas Cole will speak about his book Restoring the Pitchfork Ranch at the Sierra Vista Library. A. Thomas Cole spent thirty-two years as a small-town lawyer in Casa Grande, Arizona. For his so-called “retirement,” Cole and his wife Lucinda have been rehabilitating a ranch in southwestern New Mexico, where they focus on protecting wildlife and wildlife habitats, wetland restoration, and carbon sequestration. Their aim is to draw down their carbon use and to encourage others to do the same.
About the book:
Restoring the Pitchfork Ranch tells the story of a decades-long habitat restoration project in southwestern New Mexico. Rancher-owner A. Thomas Cole explains what inspired him and his wife, Lucinda, to turn their retirement into years dedicated to hard work and renewal. The book shares the past and present history of a very special ranch south of Silver City, which is home to a rare type of regional wetland, a fragile desert grassland ecosystem, archaeological sites, and a critical wildlife corridor in a drought-stricken landscape.
When: Thursday, March 21, 2024
Time: 6 p.m., AZT
Where: Downtown Public Library, 300 W Aspen Ave, Flagstaff, AZ
A. Thomas Cole will speak about his book Restoring the Pitchfork Ranch at Flagstaff Downtown Library. A. Thomas Cole spent thirty-two years as a small-town lawyer in Casa Grande, Arizona. For his so-called “retirement,” Cole and his wife Lucinda have been rehabilitating a ranch in southwestern New Mexico, where they focus on protecting wildlife and wildlife habitats, wetland restoration, and carbon sequestration. Their aim is to draw down their carbon use and to encourage others to do the same.
About the book:
Restoring the Pitchfork Ranch tells the story of a decades-long habitat restoration project in southwestern New Mexico. Rancher-owner A. Thomas Cole explains what inspired him and his wife, Lucinda, to turn their retirement into years dedicated to hard work and renewal. The book shares the past and present history of a very special ranch south of Silver City, which is home to a rare type of regional wetland, a fragile desert grassland ecosystem, archaeological sites, and a critical wildlife corridor in a drought-stricken landscape.
When: Tuesday, February 20, 2024
Time: 6:30 p.m., MST
Where: Western International Corral #36, Cross Point Church Assembly of God, 11600 E. US-180, Silver City, NM
A. Thomas Cole will read from and discuss his book Restoring the Pitchfork Ranch at the Western International Corral meeting in Silver City. The presentation is $5.00 and open to the public. A. Thomas Cole spent thirty-two years as a small-town lawyer in Casa Grande, Arizona. For his so-called “retirement,” Cole and his wife Lucinda have been rehabilitating a ranch in southwestern New Mexico, where they focus on protecting wildlife and wildlife habitats, wetland restoration, and carbon sequestration. Their aim is to draw down their carbon use and to encourage others to do the same.
About the book:
Restoring the Pitchfork Ranch tells the story of a decades-long habitat restoration project in southwestern New Mexico. The book shares the past and present history of a very special ranch south of Silver City, which is home to a rare type of regional wetland, a fragile desert grassland ecosystem, archaeological sites, and a critical wildlife corridor in a drought-stricken landscape.
When: Friday, February 2, 2024
Time: 6:30 – 8 p.m., MDT
Where: Bright Side Bookshop, 18 N San Francisco St., Flagstaff, AZ
John Westerlund will celebrate the 20th anniversary of his book’s publication and sign his book, Arizona’s War Town, at Bright Side Books as part of the First Friday celebration in downtown Flagstaff. Wine will be offered.
About the book:
Arizona’s War Town tells the story of how the Navajo Ordnance Depot in Flagstaff contributed significantly to the city’s rapid growth during the war years as it brought considerable social, cultural, and economic change to the region. A clearing in the ponderosa pine forest called Volunteer Prairie met the military’s criteria for a munitions depot—open terrain, a cool climate, plentiful water, and proximity to a railroad—and it was also sufficiently inland to be safe from the threat of coastal invasion. Constructing a depot of 800 ammunition bunkers, each the size of a 2,000-square-foot home, called for a force of 8,000 laborers, and Flagstaff became a boom town overnight as construction workers and their families poured in from nearby Indian reservations and as far away as the Midwest and South. More than 2,000 were retained as permanent employees—a larger workforce than Flagstaff’s total pre-war employment roster.
About the author:
John S. Westerlund served for 26 years as a U.S. Army field artillery officer, retiring as a lieutenant colonel, and has taught at Northern Arizona University and at the Ecole Supérieure de Guerre in Paris.
When: Monday, March 11, 2024
Time: 2:30 p.m., MDT
Where: Coolidge Public Library, 160 W Central Ave., Coolidge, AZ
A. Thomas Cole will speak and read from his book Restoring the Pitchfork Ranch in at the Coolidge Public Library. Books will be available for purchase; the event is free and open to the public. A. Thomas Cole spent thirty-two years as a small-town lawyer in Casa Grande, Arizona. For his so-called “retirement,” Cole and his wife Lucinda have been rehabilitating a ranch in southwestern New Mexico, where they focus on protecting wildlife and wildlife habitats, wetland restoration, and carbon sequestration. Their aim is to draw down their carbon use and to encourage others to do the same.
About the book:
Restoring the Pitchfork Ranch tells the story of a decades-long habitat restoration project in southwestern New Mexico. The book shares the past and present history of a very special ranch south of Silver City, which is home to a rare type of regional wetland, a fragile desert grassland ecosystem, archaeological sites, and a critical wildlife corridor in a drought-stricken landscape.
The University of Arizona Press
